The Flash community is one of those community where you get flooded with open source projects. In the book “The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development” the most popular projects are getting discussed. The book discusses projects such as AMFPHP, Papervision3D and Red5. The initial chapters 1-4 of the book explain how to get up-and-running with an open source development environment. This means that projects as MTASC, swfmill and the Adobe compilers are getting discussed in these chapters. Especially, how to prepare IDE such as FDT and FlashDevelop to leverage these solutions. After this you are ready to start working on your ActionScript2 or 3 project.
As you might know every Flash project is nothing without the right testing and debugging tools. In Chapter 5 several open source solutions for unit testing (AsUnit and FlexUnit), debugging (more logging, XRay) are discussed. Of course, other activities as debugging using breakpoints, watches are not spoken about, but these are already discussed in Adobe’s own documentation.
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