Public Preview Releases of Flex SDK, Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst available for download

It is pretty simple to manually install the latest flash player but not really easy to find on Adobe site, so I post the direct link here for those who need it.

Flash Player Installer

GET Flash Player 64-bit “Square”

The final version should be out in 2011.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Visit their site for more information : http://www.scaleform.com/

Enjoy.

The Arabic calligraphy is a type of Arabic writing that is merged with art and decorative motives along with the different types of Arabic handwritings fonts. The Arabic calligraphy artwork is sued to feature Qura’an (The Muslims holy book), prophet Mohammed words, quotes of wisdom and Arabic poems.

http://www.graphicmania.net/arabic-calligraphy-inspiration-through-the-ages/

Arabic Calligraphy

Enjoy.

Thank god I found this sweet little method from Josh Tynjala, it is not perfect but it really helps:

/**
 * Corrects errors caused by floating point math.
 */
public function correctFloatingPointError(number:Number, precision:int = 5):Number
{
	//default returns (10000 * number) / 10000
	//should correct very small floating point errors
	var correction:Number = Math.pow(10, precision);
	return Math.round(correction * number) / correction;
}
/**
 * Tests if two numbers are <em>almost</em> equal.
 */
public function fuzzyEquals(number1:Number, number2:Number, precision:int = 5):Boolean
{
	var difference:Number = number1 - number2;
	var range:Number = Math.pow(10, -precision);
	//default check:
	//0.00001  -0.00001
	return difference  -range;
}
/*
Copyright (c) 2007 Josh Tynjala
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
*/

For example, try this actionscript code :

trace(0.08 * 0.7); //0.055999999999999994
trace(correctFloatingPointError(0.08 * 0.7)); //0.056

Impressive, isn’t it ?

That’s it, I hope it helps.

Unfuddle tickets can now be manipulated directly from the Eclipse Mylyn interface:

http://unfuddle.com/blog/2010/1/14/unfuddle-mylyn-connector

The Unfuddle Mylyn Connector is compatible with Mylyn 3.0.

So I am in France, but use my OS and software in English. For some unknown reason, Flash Builder decided that I should use French language (OS location maybe), even though I choose English in the installer ! Thank you very much Adobe, but please let me choose my language in the future.

As you can imagine, no way to change the language, even reinstalling doesn’t help.

But… good news everyone ! There is a fix. Edit your eclipse.ini and add “-Duser.language=en” somewhere after “-vmarg”.

For exemple, I use the Eclipse 3.5.1 and my eclipse.ini looks like this :

-data
X:/wb_3.5.1
-showlocation
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
–launcher.XXMaxPermSize
384M
-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar
–launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.0.200.v20090519
-vm
C:/Program Files (x86)/Java/jdk1.6.0_18/jre/bin/client/jvm.dll
-vmargs
-Duser.language=en
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Xms128m
-Xmx384m
-Xss4m
-XX:PermSize=128m
-XX:MaxPermSize=384m
-XX:CompileThreshold=5
-XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=10
-XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=70
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-XX:+CMSIncrementalMode
-XX:+CMSIncrementalPacing

Hope that helps.

The solution is quite simple when you know what to look for, if you examine both Eclipse installations, you’ll notice that there is an extra “links” folder in one of them where the Flex is installed. You just have to copy the file com.adobe.flexbuilder.feature.core.link into the the new eclipse’s “links” folder (create it if it doesn’t exists).

Or, if you prefer, you can create it from scratch, it is pretty simple as it contains only the path to the Flex plugin installation (path keyword is not mandatory) :

path=C:/Program Files/Adobe/Flex Builder 3 Plug-in

This solution works of course, for multiple Eclipse installations.

(For the moment, there is a bug in Flex compiler, so we have to wait)

http://www.layersmagazine.com/fourth-annual-layers-100-wicked-tips.html

Thank you Adobe