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I love it when people write their own perspective about designing or programming. It always extends my view on those topics. This topics is posted in The Jim Whimpy Weblog and it really amazed me with all those points I didn’t think off or I didn’t realize it well.

Get for instance “Don’t Bold Headings”, I ALWAYS bold the headlines. But after seeing the design of his post, I think I will reconsider about bolding the headlines.

Yup, 3 good articles written in 10 points for today.
10 cool web development related articles in 2007
Ten things I love && hate about C
10 reasons to choose CakePHP as Framework

The magic number of 10… I wonder if we will ever get bored from the number 10!

Search the blog and you’ll find articles with 10 points!

10 APress Free eBooks
10 Reasons to Love PHP
Adobe AIR: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it
Top 10 Ways to Know Your Software Project is Doomed
10 Designer’s Checkpoints To Be Aware Of
10 Things We Should Know About SilverLight
… it never ends…

Thank you “anonymous”, whoever you are, for your advice on how to be a good programmer.

Ever heard of Zend, CakePHP, symphony frameworks for PHP? Duane OBriend, a PHP developer and freelancer explains about how to select the right framework for your work and how to install them. I’m a big fan of CakePHP because it suites the type of work I do.

Thanks to Flex RIA United, they posted actionscript resources websites on their blog.

Here is their list:

Action Script Library – A collection of code snippets for use with ActionScript.

ActionScript.org Library – A collection of over 700 scripts for you to use, a large selection of tutorials and more.

Actionscript Physics Engine – A free 2D physics engine for Actionscript 3 from MIT.

ActionStep.org – An ActionScript 2.0 open source component framework for writing to the Flash player.

Animation Package – An ActionScript library (Flash player 6 and above) with a focus on keeping file sizes down.

AS2lib.org – The AS2 library open source framework to work with Actionscript 2.

AS2Unit.org – An Actionscript 2 testing framework that lets you run repeatable tests on your classes.

Flalog.com – Tips, tricks, and tutorials for Flash and ActionScript.

FlashKit.com – Code snippets, reviews, links, over 1,000 tutorials.

Flashtica.com – A designer-oriented site with open source scripts and links to lots of resources.

GoToAndLearn.com – A site with very in-depth video tutorials on various aspects of Flash.

Jim’s Flash Bestiary – A collection of small Flash movies with accompanying source code to learn from.

Kirupa.com Tutorials – An extensive collection of tutorials on just about every conceivable aspect of Flash.

OneFlex.org Codes – A site for people to post and share code snippets for ActionScript and MXML.

OSFlash.org – A home for open source Flash projects that any registered member can contribute to.

Smart Webby Flash Tutorials – A collection of tutorials for Flash for beginner to advanced developers.

TutorialOutpost Flash Lessons – A huge collection of tutorials on many aspects of the Flash program.

Oh yes.. I meant the “!!!!!!!!” thing! Can you believe that you can play Quake I on Flash? That’s what you’ll see on this video.

Peter Elst has uploaded video sneak peek of Adobe MAX 2007 Chicago. Scott Peterson’s C/C++ conversion to AS3 tool is truly amazing. He converts the whole Quake game which was written in C++ into AS3 and played the game in flash player.

Peter Elst posted few sneak peek videos of MAX Chicago 2007. He is in process uploading all sessions he attended on that conference.

Ever wondered what to do when your PHP script takes long time to execute? Especially when users value time and won’t wait long to open a web page. There is a solution for that by running part of your PHP code in the background as SiteCrafting Blog posted. It’s simple as this article shows the command needed to execute a PHP scripts in the background without interfering with the page loading. It only works in Linux servers.


<%
$command = "/usr/bin/php4 -f /var/www/myweb/image_resize.php";

exec( "$command > /dev/null &", $arrOutput );
%>


That code will execute the image_resize.php in the background. The PHP file that uses this command will be loaded normally without waiting for exec() to be done.

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to make a simple cartoon animation like the one hereunder:

It is easy, simple steps, and totally suitable for beginners.

Two big releases today! Adobe released Flex 3 Beta 2 and Flash Lite 3. Adobe has been releasing Flex 3 Beta for testing and now releasing the new version of the beta.

Flash Lite is the flash player version for mobile devices. The new release supports FLV flash videos that might do a great impact in the mobile world. This will allow even low resource small mobile phones to play FLV video like the one youtube uses.

Adobe Developer Center is now called Adobe Developer Connection (ADC). The enhanced website looks more attractive with enhanced interface for more connectivity. I haven’t time to check it well enough, but I can say it is easier to find what I’m looking for. It seems Adobe is trying to get more involved with developers community. In addition, Flex cookbook is now easier to access including many other sections unlike before where the link were scattered between pages.

To read more details about the new design, read this article.