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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.

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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...

Carl Walker • 4 Oct 2010
Tools

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...

James Tyner • 28 Sep 2010
Tools

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...

Jarel Remick • 27 Sep 2010
Terminal and CLI

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...

Jeffrey Way • 22 Sep 2010
Workflow

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,...

Rafiq Elmansy • 30 Jul 2010
Tools

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...

Jeffrey Way • 27 Jul 2010
Tools

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...

Devon Govett • 8 Jun 2010
Tools

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...

Matthew Casperson • 5 May 2010
Tools

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...

Matthew Casperson • 26 Apr 2010
Tools

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...

Jeffrey Way • 8 Mar 2010
Tools

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...

Jeffrey Way • 8 Jan 2010
Tools

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...

Willy Ci • 14 Sep 2009