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		<title>Custom Eclipse Style XCode shortcuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After using eclipse for so long i have become a custom to my shortcuts and xcode just doesn't stand up to the job as far as i am concerned so here is a small list of the custom key bindings i have setup for myself. I will add more as I create them.
To create a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/2010/02/03/custom-xcode-shortcuts/</link>
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		<title>Iphone Development course</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been meaning to start building an iphone application for some time now and recently stumbled across Stanfords CS193p iphone development course on ITunes U I have found it really useful especially the Assignments. more...
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		<link>http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/2010/01/10/138/</link>
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		<title>Installing Japanese, Chinese or even Korean on UK Blackberry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just in case anyone was having as much trouble as me installing one of the above languages onto their UK Blackberry I thought i would post this very useful link.
http://www.blackberryforums.com/general-8300-series-discussion-curve/151613-cjk-support-os-4-5-a.html
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		<link>http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/2009/12/30/installing-japanese-chinese-or-even-korean-on-uk-blackberry/</link>
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		<title>Forcing Firefox to open Flex in the same window</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Using FireFox as your main browser when developing on Windows means that by default you end up getting loads of tabs for all your canceled debug sessions. In order to prevent this behavior simply type in
about:config
into the address bar and do a search for
browser.link.open_external
then change it's value from 3 to 1; this will make your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/2009/11/16/forcing-firefox-to-open-flex-in-the-same-window/</link>
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		<title>Binary Clock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been looking into bits, bytes and bit shifting a lot recently so I thought I would quickly make a small binary clock to help burn it into my mind. In addition it also gave me the chance to experiment with the spark skinning. Below is the result. Not pretty I know but thats [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/2009/10/16/binary-clock/</link>
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		<title>Code Optimization tricks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Collapse literal values
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  var a : uint = b + &#40; 10024-200 &#41; / 2;//195ms
√ var a : uint = b + 412;//47ms
&#160;
Multiplication is faster than Division
nice explanation of using multiplication for division here
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  result = num / 4;//382ms
√ result = num * 0.25;//132ms
&#160;
Use Implicit type casting
&#160;
  var a : Point = [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/2009/10/14/code-optimization-tricks/</link>
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		<title>Forcing the Browser to crash using ActionScript</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just discovered this little trick, I'm not sure how useful it is but it works.
Simply create a class that throws an error in the constructor. This will cause the browser to crash and close.
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&#160;
package
&#123;
   public class BrowserCrasher
   &#123;
      public function BrowserCrasher&#40; &#41;
    [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/2009/09/28/forcing-the-browser-to-crash-using-actionscript/</link>
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		<title>Enums and static initializers in AS3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just came across the idea of static initializers in Java and was wondering if they are available in ActionScript as well.
I found a couple posts on the subject.
post 1
post 2
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		<link>http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/2009/09/28/enums-and-static-initializers-in-as3/</link>
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		<title>Getting snippets to work with FlashBuilder Beta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note here. I use the excellent snippet plugin from Lee Brimlow over at the theFlashBlog so that i don't have to put up with all the cfeclipse icons across the top of my toolbar. But I recently installed a beta version of FlashBuilder and found that when i installed the plugin it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/2009/08/19/getting-snippets-to-work-with-flashbuilder-beta/</link>
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		<title>IMXMLObject for non visual components</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been using Flex for a couple of years now and i still find new and interesting framework items. In comes IMXMLObject. Up until recently whenever i wanted to place a non visual component into mxml i was extending UIComponent to allow me to place these items in MXML, however among other things this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.betadesigns.co.uk/Blog/2009/08/18/imxmlobject-for-non-visual-components/</link>
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