Good Times & Happy Days

cnet have a nice feature on the upcoming Adobe CS4. It seems as though there is nothing revolutionary in this release, but its probably worth upgrading if you use it daily.

This post points out the “with” keyword, a tremendously useful keyword that is rarely ever used. Having now discovered it, i’m going to be going back and cleaning up a few ‘messy’ sections of code.

10 sets of nice clean icons for you to use on projects.

This looks like a very interesting project! The guy has written some software on the DS to control his camera out in the field. I was considering using Arduino to make an intervalometer myself a while back, but seeing this makes me wonder if the DS could be a much more elegant solution.

Seven of the best version control systems compared and commented on. Useful if you are looking for a versioning system or wondering if there’s something better out there.

A short example of how to use 2-way binding in Flex 4.

More Photoshop goodness, this time some truely lovely ways of styling text, and i’m not talking drop shadows and glows here folks. There are some truely great techniques in there. Oh, did I mention they all come with tutorials?

Adobe have announced that they will no longer be developing FlashPaper. FlashPaper has for a long time been the best way to convert various document types to .swf, notably .pdf and .ppt. We can only hope that Adobe have something new and improved in the pipeline for handling document->swf conversion.

A collection of stunning 70 year photos from the Library of Congress. They recently released over 2000 photos, these are a selection of some of the best.

An interesting article exploring a development teams experience with different styles of organizing their time over a working week.