Is it just me? or is this a strange decision?

After installing CS3, debugging in Flex Builder suddenly launches Flash Authoring and stops sending trace output to Eclipse.

UPDATE: The new versions of Sprouts actually pull down and install the Flex SDK automatically!

UPDATE: AsProject has been refactored, renamed and moved, development is ongoing at the new location for “Sprouts”.

UPDATE: Be sure to check out the updated screencasts at http://projectsprouts.org/screencasts.html.

I’m elated to finally announce AsProject!

This is a cross platform, open source ActionScript development tool set that I’ve been working on for the past couple of months.

AsProject automates a variety of tasks including the creation of projects, classes, test cases, test suites, and swfmill libraries. It automates the download, installation and configuration of the debug flash player and many open source tools. AsProject also includes sophisticated build tools written in rake to automate build processes.

If this sounds interesting to you check out the video demo!

As of today, Apollo is in alpha, and boy does it look promising! I’m so impressed with what I’ve seen tonight that I’ve been sitting in the corner for the past hour playing with Apollo (yep, by attending Apollo Camp I scored an alpha copy of Apollo which will be available via labs any day). And, with all the exciting Flash-related things going on lately (Flash Lite 3, Chumby, FlexLib, Apollo, iriver’s U20) it seemed appropriate to build a to-do application with it. It’s both a web and desktop application, and here it is:

I’ve been working on a new open source project in my spare time that involves using Rake to compile and display ActionScript SWFs, (more on that project coming soon), and one of the surprisingly difficult parts had to do with trying to get Rake tasks running from Eclipse.

Since I finally figured it out, and couldn’t seem to find any decent resources out there, I figured other folks might find this info useful.

If you’re interested enough in Flash Lite to (like me) buy a phone to experiment on, I’ve got some recommendations for you. My recommendations are based on experience spent on two recently completed Flash Lite projects (one Flash Lite 1 and one Flash Lite 2) where I worked with over twenty different phone models during the past three months.

From a Flash Lite performance perspective, I recommend a Symbian S60 2nd Edition phone. The S60 2nd Edition phones consistently worked better for me than all others and never crashed. It’s funny. I’d think that if “2” is good then “3” would be better, but that’s not the case here. Flash Lite performs better on S60 2nd Edition than the S60 3rd Edition. I recommend the following phones in the following order based on Flash Lite performance:

1. Symbian S60 2nd Edition phones
2. Symbian S60 3nd Edition phones
3. Symbian S40 phones
4. Verizon Wireless supported handsets
5. Windows Mobile 5.0 devices