Use the Gaia Flash Framework? Then you know how important a valid site.xml file is to loading assets, pages, and the entire scaffolding process. In a shout out to Steven Sacks and the amazing work that he has been doing in order to release Gaia 3.0 Jeremiah Philipp who works for me at T8DESIGN put together an amazing little application to quickly update you site.xml and visualize it. We will be working with Steven over the next couple days to get this over into the gaia project source base. If you have ideas please share them!
xml validation
drag and drop re-ordering
duplicate entire branches
reorder assets for load order
pages templates
edit project properties
print site map
import site.xml
file browser to find assets
Try it out people!
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Mihai Corlan and Adobe Platform evangelist put together a nice video on debugging Flex and PHP projects with Flex Builder and Zend Studio and posted on Adobe TV. Check it out as it is pretty darn slick!
I was listening to the Weekly RIA Round Up last night while I was running and they mentioned Zend Amf Session support. That was pretty cool to “hear” about something that I was working on rather than a tweet or email. Thanks David Tucker for the shout out! If you are not listening to some podcasts they are starting to get pretty good. I listen to these three, let me know what is on your playlist.
I have had a tremendous education over the last year in getting to work on Flex 4 and the Zend Framework. Two exceptional open source projects that are growing daily in both contributers and community. They are also two projects that get a bad rap because they are supported by a “known” company. Some other open source favorites such as MySQL are getting this wrap too. The funny thing about both these projects is that the code is 90% driven and coded by the community and the remaining 10% is the types of additions that the community needs but Adobe and Zend do because they can’t get someone like me add them. By having a parent company back the open source initiative you have access to people that are paid to work on the project. This means that they know why decisions have been made over time, common mistakes, and best practices. They also make for the best projects to be your first open source project because of the support.
So why should you help?
Learn about software architecture from a HUGE project so you can use those concepts in your own projects.
Understand who is really behind that code base that is powering your startup, enterprise, life’s work.
Learn concepts and applications that are necessary for large teams that you can use in your own organization
Receive a minimal of 50+ emails a weekend asking why you have yet to do XYZ and can you have that completed next week!
Work on the project that you actually are using.
But I am not that good of a programmer.
Ahh this is where you relize that you have to be a part of a large project to become a good programmer.
We need documentation, in the trunk of the project not on your blog.
We need test cases for bugs.
We need people answering “bug” questions that are really just people that did not RTFM. But they distract the core from working on new features. And the manual probably sucks too.
We need best practice documents. Most open source documentation is around getting started and not best practices.
We need real work examples to showcase how the application can be used.
Commit to adding something to the community that you are a part of in ‘09. If you are reading my blog you know how important open source is to you! My company and coding career will forever be changed because of all the support, best practices, and advice I received from Peter, Wil, Stas, and specifically Matthew. I hope you engage and learn in ‘09 too.
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