Using Vim for actionscript

The syntax file is here http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1061.

Put it in /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/

Edit /usr/share/vim/vim72/filetype.vim to remove the .as filetype binding to Atlas so that vim will syntax highlight your code properly.

So the line in the file that looks like this

au BufNewFile,BufRead *.atl,*.as       setf atlas

needs to be:

au BufNewFile,BufRead *.as,*.mxml        setf actionscript

Good HTML, CSS tutorial

http://www.htmldog.com/ has good tutorials for HTML and CSS. The tutorials are easy to follow and teach the syntax well.

Upgrading to Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10) from Ubuntu Jaunty Jalopy (9.04)

Related: Brightness fix

11Feb2010 Update: There are mouse issues with Karmic Koala so I would suggest you hold of from updating. See http://linuxbear.blogspot.com/2010/02/mouse-issues-with-ubuntu-karmic-koala.html

You need to run "sudo update-manager" in the command prompt.

This site has better details http://www.ubuntugeek.com/upgrade-ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-to-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-beta.html

Good sound editor for Linux

Audacity is a great sound editor for linux. Allows you to import various file format, edit them and export them back into any format you like.

Homepage: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Changing package repository source in Kubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty'

KMenu -> Applications -> System -> Software Management

Click on "Software sources".
Click on the drop box that shows you your current repos. Select "Other".
Now you can select the server you want or click on "Select Best Server" to let the app do it for you.

Flash on linux using Adobe Flex 3.3 SDK

As long as you don't mind using the command line, just download the flex 3.3 SDK, unzip it. The SDK contains both windows and Linux (Unixes) binaries.

The compiler is mxmlc which resides in /bin/mxmlc.

For reading material go to the Adobe documentation page.

Getting started with Haxe on Linux

Haxe is a interesting language which supports multiple targets. I am currently interested in generating Flash SWF using Haxe.

Here are some interesting resources:
haxe.org -> The official site for Haxe.
www.cactusflower.org/learning-flash-with-haxe -> A well written tutorial.