Learn about Coding Tools

Which tools do you need as a developer? This part of our Coding Fundamentals section introduces you to some essential coding tools and explains how to use them.

All Tools tutorials:

  1. Internet Explorer 9 Beta: Reviewed and Benchmarked

    Internet Explorer 9 Beta: Reviewed and Benchmarked

    Tutorial Beginner

    Microsoft is making some bold claims with the release of Internet Explorer 9 Beta. They explain that other browsers, unlike IE9 Beta, only use 10% of your...

  2. Quick Introduction: Flash Button and Label Components

    Quick Introduction: Flash Button and Label Components

    Tutorial Beginner

    Welcome to a series of Quick Tip lessons in which we'll learn about components in Flash Professional CS5. In this week's tutorial we'll be learning about the...

  3. 20 Excellent Coda Tips

    20 Excellent Coda Tips

    Tutorial Beginner

    I've been using Coda for a while now, and it's become my web development application of choice. There are quite a few great web development applications out...

  4. 25 Vim Tutorials, Screencasts, and Resources

    25 Vim Tutorials, Screencasts, and Resources

    Tutorial Beginner

    As I continue my self-imposed thirty days of Vim, I've come across a plethora of excellent tutorials, resources...even screencasts. If you're like me, and...

  5. Integrating Adobe Flash with Other CS5 Applications - Basix

    Integrating Adobe Flash with Other CS5 Applications - Basix

    Tutorial Beginner

    Since the early release of the Adobe Creative Suite, integration between its products has been one of the key features. After Adobe's merger with Macromedia,...

  6. 4 Ways to Auto-Refresh your Browser when Designing new Sites

    4 Ways to Auto-Refresh your Browser when Designing new Sites

    Tutorial Beginner

    You know the drill: make some edits to your document, click save, switch over to your browser, refresh it, and then observe the changes. Wouldn’t it be...

  7. 5 Excellent New Features in Safari 5

    5 Excellent New Features in Safari 5

    Tutorial Beginner

    On June 7th, Apple released an update to their web browser, Safari 5. It includes a plethora of new features for web developers, including a faster...

  8. Quick Tip: Using Google App Engine as a Proxy Server

    Quick Tip: Using Google App Engine as a Proxy Server

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Google App Engine can be used as a free and convenient way around restrictive or missing cross domain policy files. This tutorial will show you how to create...

  9. Quick Tip: A Guide to Cross Domain Policy Files

    Quick Tip: A Guide to Cross Domain Policy Files

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Every Flash or Flex developer who has had to access remote resources has come across a crossdomain.xml policy file at some point. This article takes a look...

  10. Quick Tip: My Favorite New IDE: WebStorm

    Quick Tip: My Favorite New IDE: WebStorm

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Over the weekend, Elijah Manor tweeted about a new IDE, called WebStorm, that is currently being offered as a public preview, from JetBrains. After...

  11. Learn how to Write Lightning-Fast Code in 4 Minutes: Screencast

    Learn how to Write Lightning-Fast Code in 4 Minutes: Screencast

    Tutorial Intermediate

    We all know the benefits of using snippets and bundles to speed up our coding, but what if we could take things a step further, and turn a complex html...

  12. Working with the Debugger in Adobe Flex Builder

    Working with the Debugger in Adobe Flex Builder

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Many Flash developers use either the Alert class for debugging, or trace statements due to associations with Flash. Flex does have a true debugger and it's a...