flash

A short blog post just to mention that Bram will be attending FITC in Amsterdam tomorrow and tuesday. If you would like to hook up and talk about sound and flash, send an email to bram.dejong at this domain! See you there!

This week Jetbrains released IntelliJ IDEA 9.0 which has flex support. We have checked it out, and can already conclude that this is a very strong contender when it comes to Actionscript 3 editing. Superior refactoring, code analysis, flexible source code formatting, plenty of smart code generation functionality, (much) easier to set up than FDT or flexbuilder, quick and superb navigation, .... We are great FDT fans, mainly for the speed advantage when comparing to flexbuilder, but when jetbrains gets rid of some of the relatively harmless infancy ".0" problems we will probably switch. Another interested developer told that if you can prove you are a switcher who comes from another IDE, they'll give you a 25% price cut.

Just like FDT, IDEA does not have a "built in" profiler which is a still an interesting feature in flexbuilder, but I hope to see profilers in other IDE's over the next few years. [Although Joa Ebert tells me: "hey, just roll your own with flash.sampler.*!"]

All this information is particular for the Proximus Magic 32A particular, but it will still give you an overview of how the procedure actually works.

Searching on the web there are a lot of custom Android ROM images out there, but not a single website seems to give a highlevel overview of how the flashing procedure actually works. Understand first that flashing your ROM will void your warranty. Also, if something goes wrong in the process you might end up bricking your phone. This is just a checklist and a reminder-to-self, not a fool-proof procedure. It doesn't -for example- include backing up your settings (for which you can use Nandroid). USE WITH CAUTION!