The Flash Art of War

I am happy to introduce my new Framework called Flash Camouflage. I have just posted a stable build of it on google code and will be continuing to add and refine it over the next few months. Here is a little background into what the framework can do:

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I just got an email from the UG Manager for NJ Flex who wanted to spread the word about a Flex Conference in NJ not to far away from the city. I don’t know much about the group considering I have issues leaving Manhattan but it looks like its going to be really interesting. I am happy to see this getting organized in my neck of the woods. Because of changing jobs and my 2.5 week vacation in Italy starting next week I wasn’t able to attend any conferences this year. Please check it out and if your interested and got the cash register, here is info.

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I have been promising to do a large multi-part posting on Ant and workflows and all of this great stuff but I haven’t gotten to it. Well if you remember I have just started a new job I have been really slammed trying to get things in order. One of the issues I am dealing with is how to automate builds of a site built entirely in the Flash CS 3 IDE. Well for those who know me, I am not a happy camper when I can’t have everything automated so I did a little digging on google and came across FlashCommands by Mike Chambers on Google Code. Well seeing how this python script lets you compile FLAs from the command line using Flash CS 3 I decided I would share with you my Ant script to automate the entire process.

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Not sure how many of you out there have been playing Motion Poker X on your iPhones but I have been addicted ever since Apps were legally made available on the iPhone. Usually when I play a game I like I try to think of how to build it in Flash. Mobile phone games make really good inspiration and game development was one of the biggest reasons why I got into Flash in first place¹.

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1. Here is one of my oldest Flash game sites GameCook.com [↩]

I am going to be doing a 5 part series on setting up the perfect Flash Development Workflow. These tutorials will go over setting up FlexBuilder 3 / FDT 3, project organization, a local Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) setup for testing, version control, and finally automating all of your builds with Ant.

The Prefect Flash Development Workflow

• Part 1: Setting up FlexBuilder 3 and/or FDT 3 - Coming Soon
• Part 2: Version Control (CVS/SVN) Organization - Coming Soon
• Part 3: Project Setup and Organization - Coming Soon
• Part 4: Setting up LAMP for Local testing - Coming Soon
• Part 5: Builds, Runs and Ant - Coming Soon
• Appendix: Some extra tips, tricks, and shortcuts I use in my own setup. - Coming Soon

I will continue to update this posts with links to each part of the series as I finish them. My goal is to release a new part each week. If you have any suggestions or things you would like me to cover leave a comment and I will try to get it in there.

I know its been over two weeks since I posted last but I have some good new, I have a new job!

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