Posted: October 22nd, 2009 | Author: Huyen Tue Dao | Filed under: Development | Tags: git, kernel.org | No Comments »
Lately, I’ve been meandering over to the GIT side of the version control landscape, and today I found a great tourist map (the kind with oversized icons that point out all the best landmarks and all the restrooms): Everyday GIT With 20 Commands Or So from kernel.org. It breaks up basic git commands into groups by what role the user is playing and has plenty of mini use examples with step-by-step instruction and explanation. Also links directly to man pages for flag-looking-up-type goodness.
Today I created a tag. I deleted a tag. And I branched off of a tag. And I deleted a branch. Where’s mah cookie? 
Posted: October 13th, 2009 | Author: Huyen Tue Dao | Filed under: Development | Tags: actionscript, dash, eclipse, eclipse monkey, scripting | No Comments »
Who was tired of writing out getters and setters constantly? *raise hand*
Who especially didn’t like do it while trying to override commitProperties() and thus had to write a monkey-buttload of xVariableChange booleans for when a property changed? *raise hand*
Who found a really great Eclipse plugin for generating getters/setters, static consts, and other I-really-don’t-want-type-or-even-copy-paste-these-keywords-anymore constructs? *raise hand*
Posted in 2007, eokyere’s blog post on Dash (the Plugin Formerly Known as Eclipse Monkey) is a nice little intro to the plugin with a little example (showing how you can actually generate getters/setters with minimal work) and a little script (showing how to get Dash to generate getters/setters).
Short, sweet, easy-to-read. The Dash update site was down supposedly for a while, but as of today, it’s back up and in business on my new copy of Eclipse Galileo (Cocoa, 64-bit).
Posted: October 8th, 2009 | Author: Huyen Tue Dao | Filed under: Development | Tags: flash, quick tips | No Comments »
Side project that I’m working on involves hundreds of inventory items each with several images per item as well as several resolutions per image. As part of an all-encompassing issue of how to optimize image storage/loading/caching within my wittle Flex app (suggestions and comments wildly appreciated), I came across a fairly old (2006ish) but useful extension for batch converting bitmaps in a Flash library to symbols, including some filename manipulations, other options. If someone has a better solution for this particular task, please, please, let me know about it, but otherwise, this is pretty handy. O.o
Ben Clinkinbeard’s Flash Extension for Converting Bitmaps to Symbols
As an aside, Ben Clinkinbeard’s blog looks great. /add to rss feed
