flashalisious

I am totally not a coding guru just yet, but I have my eyes on the prise and I hope to one day know my stuff, but for now I will admit that I have a little trouble understanding some simple tasks that most programmers would not have any trouble with. We all know and love Textmate. The great text editor for the Mac. Heck I even use it to write my blog posts. You have to check out the blogging bundle if you have not used it for that it is great.

As soon as I got Textmate I started using it for all my actionscript. At the time the bundle was only for AS2. Now that I am starting to dig into AS3 and Flex it would be great to start coding using this editor. It launches way faster than Flex Builder or Eclips. There are some draw backs. The biggest being that you do not get the code hinting quite as much as you do with Flex Builder, but still it is a great tool to work in. In the next few steps I will show you how to install SVN (subversion) client for your Mac so you can utilize all the bundles and updates that are currently being developed for Textmate and most importantly there is an AS3 / Flex bundle that you can download.

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FatFreeCart is the free shopping cart widget. It works inside your website, your blog and will even work from your MySpace page. It is simply a copy-paste cart and does not require you to register with us or install anything. It works with PayPal and Google Checkout. It supports product variations, shipping, handling and sales tax.

Now, I know, I know, this is a site about flash. Well I feel that it is important to expand beyond flash sometimes and let people know about cool new free tools like this. I have a lot of customers come to me that have a need for a simple way to take payment over the internet but do not have a tone of products to offer. This is a fast simple way to run a shopping cart on your site. It will make your site look a little more professional than the other guys.

If you are a web developer but you and you really have had nothing to do with shopping cart sites in the past this would be a great way to integrate this type of functionality into your site. Check it out and let me know what you think.

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Well, I got my invite to the new site done by Kevin Rose of http://Digg.com. Looks pretty cool. Once you set up your account you get to download a desktop applications that will show you all of your posts and also allow you to post comments, links, files, and events.

Now how does this relate to my blog. Well the desktop app was compiled using Adobe’s new Desktop Environment, AIR. Basically an app that is build using the Flex Builder or Flex SDK. Now As most of you know AIR can be a program that is written in html, Ajax, Javascript, Actionscript or Flex. Wonder how they build this one. It does not look like they are using any Animation or smooth transitions in the app so I am wondering if that build it with Ajax or something like that? It would be cool to know.

Over all Looks pretty cool. If anyone out there joins up and wants to add me as a friend that would be cool. Just hit me up.