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“Linux administration with Flex, Adobe AIR, and PHP” and other links…

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Adobe—Developer Center: “If you’re a Linux administrator, you know all too well the tedium of logging on to your remote server with Secure Shell (SSH), changing directories a dozen times, then finally opening and editing a configuration file with vi or nano. If only there were some sleek, cross-platform tool for easily editing these files! Well, there is. The Adobe AIR desktop development platform, coupled with PHP through AMFPHP, creates a full-featured, triple-operating system toolbox for all your administration needs. …The ability to use PHP methods from Adobe Flash opens a whole universe of functionality and a whole universe of security concerns. Do not try this in a production environment without locking it down completely. You can make AMFPHP secure, but that’s outside the scope of this article…”

“Vim made easy: how to get your favorite IDE features in Vim”

Ars Technica: “I often get e-mail from readers who are looking for ways to make Vim more developer-friendly. A common complaint is that the editor doesn’t come with standard IDE features out of the box and it’s not always clear how to configure it to provide equivalent functionality. The secret to unlocking Vim’s real magic is to take advantage of its powerful plugin system and the large ecosystem of third-party scripts that offer editor augmentations for various tasks. To get you started, I have compiled a short list of useful tips and programming plugins for Vim that will make IDE refugees feel right at home.”

“AS3 Arcade ‘Space Invaders’ Intel 8080 Emulation”

Thibault Imbert: “This CPU has been designed to run at 2Mhz and is a good start for getting started with CPU cause each operation code is stored in a single byte. By reading a few documents related to emulation programming I noticed that the "Hello World" seems to be the Space Invaders emulation in the emulation programming scene. I found this great tutorial in VB about emulating Space Invaders and decided to try it in AS3. It would have been cool to have a byte and short type in addition to int to avoid byte overflow, but well, I read that Darron and Claus had the same problem with FC64 and had to do the checking manually too.”

“NetBeans 6.5 review”

CodeUtopia: “The formatter of Netbeans is a real joke, it indents and that is basically all it does… I really hope they add features to the formatter as I think it’s one of the strengths of ZSE.”

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