Setting up Cruisecontrol – Continuous Integration System

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Setting up Cruisecontrol is a pretty simple process. Make sure you check out the Cruisecontrol site for info on getting started and installation. The basic steps are: Download the Cruisecontrol ZIP file (cruisecontrol-src-x.x.x.zip) and unzip the files to a directory on your computer. I’ve un-ziped the files to C:/cruisecontrol271 Then build the Cruisecontrol code using [...]

Continuous Integration – The pieces and parts!

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I finally have some time to post about our Continuous Integration (CI) set up for ActionScript 2.0 and Flex/ ActionScript 3.0 projects. To continue on from the first post, I’ll explain all of the pieces & parts that are needed to get a similar CI system rolling. First, the parts that you’ll need for any [...]

More Flexible Code – Programming to an Interface

Keep your code flexible – program to interfaces. What does this mean? Well there are a few things that we need to discuss before we can really answer that question. For this discussion you’ll need a decent understanding of Object Oriented programming…but, hey if you don’t have that it still may make some sense anyhow [...]

Continious Integration for Flash and Flex

Lately I’ve been working with CruiseControl, a continuous integration tool, and unit testing (ASUnit and FlexUnit) for our ActionScript 2, ActionScript 3/Flex projects. With the help of a couple of some great posts from eyefodder and Peter Martin, I’ve finally come up with a nice little system that isn’t too much of a headache to [...]

Adobe Releases AIR and Flex 3

Adobe has released some AIR. No not that kinda air, The Adobe Integrated Runtime, this is an update and the new name of Apollo. Also, released was Flex 3 . Of course these are both on Labs, so they are both pre-releases. Now that Ted got everyone so excited, it is time to play…wish I [...]