Carlos Rovira, author of the excellent Towards Open Source Flash Development, posted a question today on the MTASC mailing list: "Today a collegue asked me how to rotate some text using only OS tools. To rotate text he must embed the font and to do this he must use the Flash IDE... so I responded that he must use Flash IDE to do this task . . . Do you know some alternative method to insert fonts without the need of Flash IDE?"

Yessir, FAMES to the rescue!

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Their second release in as many days, ASUnit Version 2.6 RC2 is now available for download and fixes a blocking issue with RC1, released yesterday.

Today on the MTASC list, erixtekila was kind enough to share with us his unofficial AsUnit framework ported to work with MTASC. Beyond providing a port of the excellent ASUnit that compiles under MTASC, he also told us how to make it work with FAME.

You see, there's this neat PHP plugin for Eclipse called PHPEclipse that comes with a web browser view. ASUnit's UI is a SWF that uses LocalConnection and so you can load it into the web browser to integrate it with Eclipse. This ingenious technique comes courtesy of Sonke Rohde who used it to integrate the Net Connection Debugger into Eclipse.

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We've all done it: Lost work. And as much as we'd like to blame the freak power cut at 1am, the "stupid application" for "crashing again" or the "heap of junk" that is our computer, the blame really rests with us: Quite possibly with our choice of software applications or hardware but, more than likely, with our work habits. (more...)

The acronyms they keep a-growin'. I started out with AME (ASDT, MTASC and Eclipse), got the Flashout plugin working and entered the world of FAME before getting my Borg on and assimilating _root. I knew I was well on my way to open-source Flash development but there was still a piece of the puzzle missing: How do I create my initial SWF, its library, resources, etc.

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