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Problem Summary? One day, I looked through a project converted from java by java2as (a tool used to convert java codes to actionscript codes). I found some interesting codes which looked like the below:

   1:  label1:

   2:  while(true)

   3:  {        

   4:  for each(var j:int in arr)

   5:  {

   6:  tracevalue.text += (j.toString()+” “);

   7:  if(j == 30)

   8:  {

   9:  break label1;

  10:  }

  11:  }

  12:  }

Pay attention to the words I marked red. It is interesting, right?

Well, I am eager to share this trick with the others, so I write a demo to show the usage of it

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If you’re a java programmer, you may familiar with JUnit. Today, software testing is becoming more and more important. A good platform needs good testing tools. Now, Adobe release the unit test tool on flex named FlexUnit. So, let’s try it, and gives you a direct-viewing understand.

I’ll suppose the reader, you familiar with Flex and AS 3.0(or AS 2.0), and any knowledge about software testing is unnecessary. This demo can be ran in Flex Builder 3.0.

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Problem Summary? Once I need to get the host, protocol, port, parameters from a given URL with Action-Script. I googled for a class named HTTPUtil developed by members of flexpasta.com, and got some tips about URLUtil of Flex SDK. However, HTTPUtil is used to resolve information from the URL of the page the SWF file embed in. URLUtil is useful, but a little complex. I need a simple method to resolve a given URL, and use the resolved information directly without extra processing.

Solution Summary: I decide to write a class named URLParser myself to satisfy my requirement using regular expression of action-script.

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Problem Summary? When I compile a project including thousands MXML and AS files with Flex Ant, I got an error message as below displayed in the Console panel of Flex Builder:

It seems that the memory usage of my JRE reaches its limitation — as we know, Flex Builder is running in JRE. Here is a simple way to solve this problem. It‘s just changing the preferences settings of Flex Builder.

Solution Summary: There are two useful arguments of JRE to control the memory usage:

I just set –Xmx to 1024m to satisfy the usage of compiling such huge Flex project.

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Problem Summary? Once I want to display a series article of Flex performance from InsideRIA(www.insideria.com) in my blog. I recognized that the amount of the articles is increasing. I should keep the links dynamically. However, I am not the provider of the blog system, so I cannot modify the codes to meet my requirement. Luckily, I can embed SWF in my blog articles. So, I just need to develop a simple RSS reader in SWF format.

Solution Summary: I do not want to parse the RSS myself. It’s a hard work to deal with. I tried to find some open source library of RSS parsing in programmed by action script 3.0. Googled for many, I got the syndication library(http://code.google.com/p/as3syndicationlib/) at last.

Use the syndication library to parse Atom and all versions of RSS easily. This library hides the differences between the formats so you can parse any type of feed without having to know what kind of feed it is.

The detailed information will be found in the project home(http://code.google.com/p/as3syndicationlib/). Then, I started to develop my own RSS reader

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A while back I had posted a pack of worn edges on my portfolio site for people to download and use in their designs. Lately, I have noticed that some of them are showing up in designs featured on CSS galleries. Seeing this made me think that they might actually be useful. So, in an effort to make them available to more people, I am posting them here on DesignReviver.

Here are a few examples of how people are using them:

• Miles Dowsett
  
• Trevor Berg
  

How to Use

The edges are contained in one PNG file. Within Photoshop, you can use it to make a selection of the edge you want, and then copy it into your design. From there you can fill it with a color or texture.

Download Worn and Torn Edges

Photoshop Actions are extremely useful in both saving time as well as learning new features that you may not know. They can be used to help standardize your final project better, cut down on repetitive tasks, and to assist you in a bit of creative inspiration. We have collected a handful of great (and free) downloadable PS Actions in this article and also included a nice tutorial on creating your own Actions.

This is a guest post by Omar the Radwan.

Photoshop Actions Downloads

• 8 Photography Actions
  
• 40 Mixed Actions
  
• 10 Polaroid Actions
  ‘rawimage’ from deviantart.com has made a great Polaroid Generator Action. Not only do the finalized photos look wonderful, but the ‘finisher’ action adds a bit of random streaks and bevels that make each picture look unique.
  
• 40 Mixed Actions
  
• 170 Mixed Actions
  
• 124 Mixed Actions
  

Additional Photoshop Actions Downloads

• Free Adobe Photoshop Actions and Tips
• Photoshop Actions on DeviantArt

Photoshop Actions Tutorial

• How to Create Photoshop Actions
  

There is definitely not a shortage of web design blogs floating around the web, and it’s easy to understand why. Web designers can utilize skills that they already have to get a good looking blog up and running with relative ease. Out of these blogs there are a handful that really stand out in terms of useful content.

Here are some of the most useful web design blogs out there. I’ve excluded big blogs like Smashing Magazine and A List Apart, since most web designers, more than likely, already follow them.

Noupe

Six Revisions

Vandelay Design Blog

We Function

Just Creative Design

Fuel Your Creativity

Dev Lounge

Outlaw Design Blog

CSS Tricks

Blog.SpoonGraphics

DesignM.ag

Woork

Web Resources Depot

Web Designer Wall

CSS is a technology that web designers use everyday, but yet it is something that most struggle with as well. Whether it’s keeping stylesheets for large sites manageable, or creating image effects that are cross browser compatible, there are plenty of things to cause frustration. This article is an attempt to provide you with a few resources that might help you with your CSS woes or introduce you to a few tricks you didn’t know about.

Organization

Write a well structured CSS file without becoming crazy

A detailed and well written post about how to write a well structured CSS file.

Organizing Your Stylesheet Using CSS Edit

Rob Soule of Viget Labs shows you how to organize your style sheets using CSS Edit, a powerful CSS editor built exclusively for the mac.

Tips for organizing your CSS

A set of practical tips for organizing your style sheets.

Tabs and Buttons

Expandable CSS Tabs Tutorial

A tutorial on creating expandable CSS tabs.

Simple Round CSS Buttons

Learn how to create rounded corner buttons with only One Image and One CSS file.

Scalable CSS Buttons Using PNG and Background Colors

Beautiful CSS buttons with icon set

Learn how to create a clean set of buttons with CSS and an icon set.

Working with Images

CSS Decorative Gallery

Decorate your images and photo galleries without editing the source images.

Placing text over image using CSS position property

A simple technique for placing text over an image.

Create Resizing Thumbnails Using Overflow Property

Learn how to create a cool resizing thumbnail effect.

Now, that was supposed to be a catchy headline. I hope it was catchy enough to get you start reading this. If you are a beginner willing to learn about Adobe Illustrator, this short video might be kinda revealing for you.

So, as always in my video tutorials, make sure your …