Tools you can’t live whitout: Lita

Another post on tools I really appreciate while working; LitaLita is another SQLite  administrator tool, made by David Deraedt. It really stands among other admin tools.

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Saving preferences in Air Applications

Every now and then, while working on a AIR application, i feel the need to save or restore some config info, like the last window position, or the last opened files.

Instead of embedding this login in every app, I thought about a PreferenceManager class that stores and restores values.

How it should behave:

  • It must save data on a file.
  • It must save data on an open and editable format, so if something goes wrong..
  • It should be a static class, so i can access it in every other class of my application, whitout the need to have the reference to the instantiated object.
  • It should be really simple to use. And should not require any setup.

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Tools: Arthropod for debugging

Better than trace or alert, I suggest anyone Arthropod for tracing out debugging information.

It consist in one class to include in your project, and a small AIR app wich contains the console and some easy configuration.

import com.carlcalderon.arthropod.Debug;
Debug.log("My log message");

Supports logging of a lot of types of data: text messages, objects, bitmaps.

Rating: 10 ;-)