PhpTasks

I am currently writing a batch of ant tasks for Php-development in Eclipse, using PDT.

https://bitbucket.org/andkrup/phptasks

The low-level nature of php makes the workflow of php-development highly indiviual, and any non-framework based workflow which works for one developer, is probably not going to work for the next dveloper. Each developer has his or her own set of (bad) habits. On the other hand, most of us develop a set of routines and our experiences enable us to know which patterns work in what situations.

This collection of tasks help me in my daily work.

It should be noted that some tasks takes for granted some idioms and coding, conventions if you will, that has proven helpful during my php developing experiences. A lot of these tasks will probably work great in conjunction with the code library PhpBasics (https://bitbucket.org/andkrup/phpbasics/), and in the future both of these projects will probably merge into a set framework, god forbid

A3Tasks update

Finally had some time to work on the A3Tasks!

A3Tasks is a little set of Ant tasks for Flash development, made by me (hence the 3 A’s; Andkrups Ant tasks for Actionscript).

Have a look at the repository at bitbucket (http://bit.ly/y63Nz4) and tell me what you think.

Automated Bitmap embedding with custom Ant Task

I just made my own Ant Task:

https://bitbucket.org/andkrup/a3tasks

The tutorial on apache ants homepage was very easy to follow and the work to do is really easy as well – if you can run Ant tasks in eclipse you can debug and run your java code as well.

This particular Task allows a user to specify a folder with image files which, when the task completes, each will be embedded in their own as3 class file.

It’s all very basic and there’s a lot of refinement to be done, for example there is a lot of stuff to add to support font embedding, and swf embedding is not supported at all. But this could help shave off some time embedding a lot of external assets without using the flash IDE.

Flex 3.5, AIR swc & ANT tasks

I am stuck on Flex SDK 3.5 at work.

Today I wanted to create a code library swc file with some AIR-specific classes and I wanted to write a build file.

It seems that there isn’t an acompc-task included in the Flex 3.5 sdk (3.5.0 build 12683), so I was using the exec-task and wrote arg-tags to expand the list of included library-paths.

External-library-path is a nice alternative to library-path if you do not want to redistribute code existing in other swc files, but I got into some problems when I wanted to use -external-library-path, because the syntax apparently has to be a bit different.

This syntax is valid but doesn’t work:

<arg line='-external-library-path "path/to/my.swc"' />

This syntax is also valid, but appears to be similar to setting the attribute append to “true” in the compc ANT-task:

<arg line='-external-library-path+="path/to/my.swc"'/>

If you have tried to substitute the library-path option with external-library-path you might have found that you have to set append=”true” and apparently this is how the command-line version looks like.