April 28, 2010 | In: build automation, MSDOS
Well, today was a fun exercise in a language I have not used in a while… MS-DOS batch files. We author batch files that our Build Managers can use to compile all of our binaries, but I recently ran into a issue where I wanted to give them an option of...
April 23, 2010 | In: development, languages
To this day, I still don’t understand folks who get hot under the collar defending this or that technology. I can see youthful exuberance (and it’s related naivety), but once you reach a certain level of experience and understanding of...
In my last post, I expressed frustration with the fact that the MXMLC Ant task choked on the runtime-shared-library-path attributes. Well, I decided to not use the MXMLC task and instead use Ant’s EXEC command to compile the app. Works like a...
April 8, 2010 | In: flex
Seriously, folks. Why do you keep changing the configuration of the runtime-shared-library-path compiler option?? Here’s how you configure a RSL in an ANT build script in Flex 3.3.0. Don’t even get me started on how it took me to figure...
March 29, 2010 | In: .NET, silverlight, Visual Studio
I downloaded and installed Visual Studio 2010 RC so that I could try out the Silverlight 4 Beta Toolkit, and it isn’t intuitive on how to create a Silverlight project. I finally found the Silverlight 4 page and discovered that I have to download and...