As my document class files get larger and larger I tend to have a hard time keeping my place. Especially when I need to jump back and forth between a couple spots. So one trick I just naturally started to evolve was to add my own "bookmarks" into my code. For example if I am working on a function called "showMessage" and I want to jump between the function and where it is being called I might do this: [as3]//# showMessage(); // blah blah blah other code // 1000 lines later //# private functiRead More....

For those of you who don't know about it, Snipplr is a handy site for people to share quick code snippets that they think may be handy to others (or just themselves)Read More....

Recently I came across this program called OE Cake which absolutely blew my mind. It is basically a fluids (and solids) playground where you draw your material, edit the gravity, etc., and then watch it all interact with each other. When playing with something like this is just furthers my feeling that Flash can't handRead More....

I am not sure how widely known this program is, but if you are on a Mac and you can't stand how long the Flash help file takes to come up, then you will definietly want to get Xash. It searches through the documentation as you type, and seems a lot more forgiving in its search results than the dafult help program is. The only problem is that I can't get it to load the CS3 documentation. It worked fine when I still had theRead More....