My Review of Automating ActionScript Projects with Eclipse and Ant

March 8th, 2012 § Leave a Comment


A great read for any AS3 developer

By smugrik from France on 3/8/2012

 

4out of 5

Pros: Concise, Easy to understand, Accurate

Best Uses: Intermediate, Novice, Student

Describe Yourself: Developer

I wish I had this book when I first started to code AS3, it gives a good review of some best practices to streamline your development workflow, from basic setup of the IDE (focused on Eclipse/FDT) to automatic compilation, deployment and publishing.
I love the fact that it includes instructions about integration with Source code management and issue tracking, too often these primordial aspects of a developer’s work are completely overlooked.
On the downside, a chapter dealing specifically with PlayBook development would have been welcome since AIR was the primary platform on this device, there are dedicated chapters covering Android and iOS though.
Overall its a great book, giving a concise and complete presentation on the subject, it is accessible (and recommended) to beginners, and more advanced devs will certainly find a handful of good tricks in there.

(legalese)

New Address, New Design

December 1st, 2011 § Leave a Comment

Welcome to our new site!

I finally registered my own .org domain on the Internet, to mark the event, I set up a new design for the site, there are still a few things to tweak, like social networking, a twitter feed, and I’d rather have links and all on the side than on the bottom, but all-in-all I like the new look.

I already finished migrating most of the old site’s contents to te new one, I think I will reorganise pages as more products are coming, with KiPass to be released soon on the PlayBook, and some experiments on the Arduino.

Stay tuned and I hope you’ll enjoy our new home!

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