Disclaimer: This post is not about best practices or anything of that sort. This is just a recount of my first attempt at using Ant with an open-source Flex library project. Here are the steps I went through (well, minus the steps that did nothing) to get my first Ant build script up & running; Installing Ant There [...]

Last night I presented to the Central Oregon Web Professionals Usergroup (COWPU) on “Introduction to Eclipse”. It was a pretty hellacious trip – I left Portland at 3pm and pulled into the meeting room right at 6:30pm. And I drove back the same night! The presentation was aimed for Eclipse beginners, but some of the attendees [...]

After my computer melt-down a couple weeks back, I upgraded to Eclipse 3.2 with Web Tools Project. However, I did *not* like the built-in XML editor. I prefer to write XML by hand, with DTD/schema “tag insight” like XML Buddy. But woe is me, XML Buddy doesn’t run on 3.2. (Someone, please correct me if [...]