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What’s your Flash/PHP Development Environment like?

I started using Flash at version 4, when I was working at W3.com.ar and I remember also having to fiddle with some Flash 3 banners. When Flash 5 came out and you could do some proper coding, it was all done inside the IDE. Then we discovered the include directive and were using Textpad with most of our code.

Then came SEPY and I got hooked straight-away. Just last year I transitioned to FlashDevelop and have been using that since. I convinced my fellow workmates and now we are all using it.

I knew there were other tools put there, but one that I really wanted to try was FDT. Check out there cool site and view the demos they have.
A couple of months back I won a license at Sydney’s Flash User Group (thanks Chris!) and I have started using it for tests. I currently haven’t fully switched yet, because I find FlashDevelop quite fast and very easy to use compared to FDT. Though FDT has on the fly syntax checking. It means I don’t have to press F7 each time before compiling.

Then talking about my PHP development environment. It was trusty old Textpad through-out all these years. Adding different syntax libraries, macros and all kind of clip extensions. But it was never an IDE. It was missing syntax checking and the famous “intellisense”

Now I have started to move towards Eclipse, and I’ve tried PHPEclipse and PDT. I had troubles with PDT but I didn’t have much time on my hands to see why it wasn’t working as expected. I will try to consolidate my both main languages (Flash and PHP) under one IDE.

My next step is to use them both on a production project. Then I will be able to assess if it’s worth switching from FlashDevelop.

It would be great to here what others are using for their own PHP and Flash development.
Please add a comment below.

Some extra resources:
http://www.blog.lessrain.com/?p=381

6 comments August 29th, 2007

Getting organised and being more productive

I’ve been trying to get organised and manage my time more effectively, and I think I have found the jackpot. David Seah’s printable CEO series:

http://davidseah.com/archives/2005/11/12/the-printable-ceo-series

I’m going to do a 30 day trial and see which one works for me. Talking about 30 day trials, I’ve stumbled upon this “30 days to success printable worksheet” There’s also an Emergent Task Timer mod, worth mentioning by GTDWannabe.

I love the idea of David’s pickle jar. I currently add my ideas to my to-do list on my PDA, but the list just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Even though I give them low priority. I think I will have to give the pickle jar a try. Quoted from David Seah: