…now with 200% more “typically”!
I was originally scheduled to speak about Making Bling with Flex at the 360Flex conference here in Atlanta. I then got the flu, learned I needed to have an organ removed at the emergency room, and missed the entire conference. Doug & Juan filled in for me. Days later after the surgery, upon regaining some semblance of consciousness, I received “get well” cards signed by the Flex community from the conference (thanks for mailing, Leif!).
Here I am in Flash CS3, coding AS3 on the timeline with a few Document classes here and there for sanity on an insane deadline. While waiting for my source control to download (someone apparently checked in the WHOLE internet), I figured I’d blog about an interesting observation I came across this week.
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I’m using Gaia , the framework for Adobe Flash , for one of my projects. As a n00b, I’ve screwed up my site.xml a few times since I didn’t read the manual. Gaia 2.2 helps a tad in that regard by now validating your site.xml before it goes about scaffolding the whole thing wrong. Having to delete all of the scaffolded classes and FLA’s for a new project 5 times because I’m a moron was frustrating. Another thing that’s nice is Steven finally put event metadata tags on classes, including on some interfaces. Since I code mostly in Flex Builder , I can actually get code hints now when doing addEventListener.
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Two Directory Source Control is a work flow where you utilize one directory from source control, one directory that you work out of, and you then shuttle between them at your convenience. In this article, I’ll describe how traditional work flows work, the problems with them, and how you can use the Two Directory option to overcome them. This article assumes you know what source control is, what a merging tool is, and the value they bring to your work flow.
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