judah’s blog

I think the best and worst part about programming is the tools or lack there of.

Here’s what I have in my tool set for each of the environments I work in. I would love to hear about tools you find useful. You can post in the comments or link to a list of your own.

Flex
Flex Builder 3 Stand Alone – Flex Builder 3 is an IDE from Adobe based on Eclipse. It has a strong design view, feature rich code view and killer new css design view. My number one resource for Flex. The Flex framework combined with this IDE rocks!
FlexCoders – The most popular mailing list for Flex. A friendly and knowledgeable community with members from Adobe.
FlexComponents – Flex mailing list for creators of Flex Components.
WebOrb – A PHP server side gateway for your Flex app.
AMFPHP – A PHP server side gateway for your Flex app.
AS3 Error Search tool – A search utility I made to quickly find AS3 errors.
Flex API – A quick reference to the Flex API. This is a link to 2.0.1 API.
Flex.org – Official site all things Flex.
Chatopica – A cross domain chat client with a popular Flex usergroup.
Books on Amazon
Note: If you are still using Flex Builder 2 or Flex SDK 2.0.1 you need to upgrade to Flex Builder 3. There have been huge performance, profiling and debugging improvements. Keep in mind, you can still publish to SDK 2.0.1 from FB3 if you need to.
NOTE! I’m still looking for a good collection of Flex Component resources, especially for development in Flex 3.

Flash
Flash CS3 (publish only to FP9) – Main tool I use for animation. Also main tool to make graphics or skins for Flex applications.

HTML
Dreamweaver
Firebug
IE Developer Toolbar
Web Developer Toolbar
Notepad2

PHP
PHPClasses.org
Notepad2
WebOrb
AMFPHP – A PHP server side gateway for your Flex app.
PHP Developers Toolkit (PDT) – PHP Development Tools framework for the Eclipse platform.

mySQL and Databases
phpMyAdmin
WebOrb

JavaScript
Dreamweaver
Firebug

Version Control
Tortoise SVN
Subclipse

Comparision Diff Tool
ExamDiff Pro

FTP
FileZilla

Regular Expressions
RegExp Buddy

Misc
Google

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 at 6:48 am and is filed under Flash, Flex, General, OOP, Subversion, Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.