Opening recent workspace shows the directories and files that I opened before, then how to get the directory location of them? I tried right click, but I see no information.
I expect something like this from Code Runner.
[I'm a member of the open source Light Table team.]
Light Table doesn't provide that info as you expect.
I agree that that would be a really useful feature, especially when you have multiple directories with the same name in different paths.
Maybe a tooltip when you hover over a directory that shows the full path would be the minimal change that would be helpful.
If you're willing to contribute, or know someone that is, feel free to create new issues in the GitHub repo for each of the Code Runner features you'd like to be implemented. Otherwise, add them to the feature wishlist wiki page.
These features could be implemented as plugins but I think some of them might arguably be fine implemented in the core app code. Pull requests welcome!
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I have created a project (and invested significant time & effort on it :-) ) .
When I try to add add-ons it complaints about some missing bits and pieces. Looking around, the root cause seems to be that I created this with the default barebones boilerplate, instead of the richer bootstrap3 boilerplate.
However, there is no option I can find to change the boilerplate. Is it possible to change the boilerplate it is built on? Is there a magic concoction...?
An Aldryn employee helped me out in their chatroom with this problem -- if you're trying to make changes on your templates and whatnot locally, and they aren't being reflected on the site when you deploy the test server, you can get things re-synched by totally deleting your local files, opening the test server with the desktop client, and clicking on the "auto-sync this project" button. This takes what's on the test server, and rebuilds the local files on your computer with that. Then, your local changes (remember to save your changes first!) should be reflected when you deploy the test server (after clicking on the "Refresh Projects" button in the lower righthand corner of the desktop client).
If you have a ton of work that you'd rather not delete and rewrite, you can move your local files elsewhere on your hard drive, and then replace the files that are written from the test server with them.
Cheers to Angelo for helping me with that. It's kind of a quirky solution, and I'd have never figured it out on my own.
You can also add custom boilerplates here (I think that'll make you log in to your account to see it), but I haven't attempted a custom boilerplate, yet, so I can't vouch for how well one would jive with the rest of the Aldryn platform.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that, while the title is unlikely to grab the interest of somebody who's making their own boilerplates, the first two or three entries in this series could be quite helpful in implementing your custom work into Aldryn's framework.
I'm trying to set up a deployment chain for some of our ASP.NET applications. The tool of choice is Web Deploy (msdeploy) - for now. Unfortunately I'm stuck on a problem.
A high level overview of the chain is thus:
Web developer creates the code and checks it in SVN;
Buildserver sees the update and builds the msdeploy .zip package of the website;
The .zip package is automatically put inside our installer and sent to various clients;
The clients run the installer on their webserver(-s);
The installer uses msdeploy internally to deploy the .zip package and create a new website or upgrade an existing one.
Msdeploy makes it easy to deploy a new instance, but I'm stumped about how to perform an "upgrade" install. The main problem is the web.config file. Each client will most certainly have made some customizations there to suit their specific environment. The installer itself offers to set some more critical parameters at the first-time installation (achieved by msdeploy's parameter mechanism), but they can do others by hand.
On the other hand, we developers also occasionally make changes to web.config, adding some new settings or removing obsolete ones. So I can't just tell msdeploy to ignore the file entirely. I need some kind of advanced XML modification mechanism. It could be a script that the developers maintain, but then it needs to be run ONLY at upgrades, not new installs.
I've no idea how to accomplish this.
Besides that, sometimes there's also some completely weird upgrade logic. For example, the application comes with our company logo, but some clients have replaced that .png file to show their own logo. Recently we needed to update the logo - but only for clients that hadn't replaced it with their own.
Similarly, there might be some cache folders that might need to be cleaned at SOME upgrades but not at others. Or folders with user content that may not be touched (but come with default content at the initial installation). Etc.
How do you normally achieve this dual behavior for msdeploy packages? Do I really need to create 2 distinct packages for every application?
Suggestion from personal experience:
Isolate customisations
Your customers should have the ability to customise their set up and the best way is to provide them with something like an override file. That way you install the new package and follow by superimposing your customer's customisations on top of your standard setup. If its a brand new install then there will be nothing to superimpose.
> top-level --
> standard files |
images | This will never be touched or changed by customer
settings.txt |
__
> customer files --
images | Customer hacks this to their heart's content
settings.txt_override |
--
Yes, this does mean that some kind of merging process needs to happen and there needs to be some script that does that but this approach has several advantages.
For settings that suddenly become redundant just issue a warning to that effect
If a customer has their own logo provide the ability to specify this in the override file
The message is clear to customers. Stay off standard files.
If customers request more customisable settings then write the default if it does not exist into the override file during upgrades.
Vilx, in answer to your question, the logic for knowing whether it is an upgrade or not must be contained in the script itself.
To run an upgrade script before installation
msdeploy -verb:sync -source:contentPath="C:\Test1" -dest:contentPath="C:\Test2" -preSync:runcommand="c:\UpgradeScript.bat"
Or to run an upgrade script after installation
msdeploy -verb:sync -source:contentPath="C:\Test1" -dest:contentPath="C:\Test2" -postSync:runcommand="c:\UpgradeScript.bat"
More info here
As to how you know its an upgrade your script could check for a text file called "version.txt" and if it exists the upgrade bat script will run. Version to be contained within the text file. Bit basic but it should work.
This also has the added advantage of giving you the ability of more elegantly merging customer's custom settings between versions as you know which properties could be overriden for that particular version.
There are some general suggestions (not specific to msdeploy), but I hope that helps:
I think you'll need to provide several installers anyway: for the initial setup and for each version-to-version upgrade.
I would suggest to let your clients to merge the config files themselves. You could just provide them either detailed desciption of waht was added/changed/removed, and/or include the utility that simplifies the merge. Maybe this and this links will give you some pointers.
as for merging the replaced logos, other client's customization, I think the best approach would be to support branding your application. I mean - move all branding details to the place where your new/upgrade installers won't touch that.
as for the rest of the adjustments made by your clients, they do that on their own risk, so the only help you could provide them is to include the detailed list of changes (maybe even the list of changed files since the previous version) and the How-To article about merging the sources with tools like Araxis Merge or similar
Or.. you could create a utility and include it to the installer, which will try to do all the tricky merging stuff on client's machine. I would not recommend this way as it requires a lot of efforts/resources to maintain.
One more thing: you could focus on backup-ing the previous client copy before upgrade. So even client will have troubles with upgrading - that will be always possible to roll back. The only thing here for you is to provide a good feedback channel which your clients can use to shoot their troubles. This feedback will allow you to figure out what the troubles your clients have and how to make their upgrade process more comfortable.
I would build on what the above have said, but I would do it with transformations, and strict documentation about who configures what. The way you have it now relies on customer intervention against a config that is mission critical to the app deploy process.
Create three config file areas. One for development, one for the "production generic" build, and one that is an empty template for the customer to edit.
The development instance should be self explanatory. This is the transform that takes the production generic template and creates a web config for your development server. (it sounds like you are shooting for a CI type process here)
The "production generic" transform should set the app up for a hypothetically perfect instance of the app. This is what the install would look like if the architect had his way.
The customer transform is used by the customers to set up the web config as required to meet their own needs. Write some documentation and see what happens. Edit the docs as you help customers through the process.
It that what you were looking for? Thoughts?
I'm just starting to use Xcode 4, and I'm trying to find the file in a project where it stores all of a project's Schemes. I figured they would be stored in a file in the xcodeproj directory somewhere, but for the life of me I can't find which one.
All of my projects are stored on an SVN server, and I'd like to keep Scheme info with the project. Right now when you check out a project fresh, the Schemes don't make it along with.
EDIT: After playing with this a bit more, it appears that Schemes are stored each as separate files in xcuserdata/user.xcuserdata/xschemes/MyScheme.xscheme with a xcschememanagement.plist file to keep them all sorted.
So my new question, is there a way to store these in a per-project scope instead of a per-user scope? This way when another developer opens the same project, he'll see the same schemes I set up?
Finally found the answer on somebody's Twitter. Schemes are stored per user by default, but if you go to Manage Schemes and click the "Shared" checkbox on the far right for each one, they'll show up in the xcshareddata directory instead of your xcuserdata directory, where they'll be seen and used by everyone. Hopefully this will help someone else trying to figure out the same thing!
I write a lot of code, most of it I throw away eventually when I am done with it; recently I was thinking that if I just kept every small piece of utility script I wrote, named it, tagged it and filed it in a dev shell, I will never loose the code, and on top of that I won't need to redo something I have done already, which is the main motivation, as I keep finding myself writing something I've done earlier.
Is there a ASP.NET shell style environment anywhere?
If not, what would be the best way to go about this?
I am looking to be able to do the following:
Write big or small bits of code.
Derive from or chain together alread written code/libraries/services.
Ability to have everything on my desktop (would that mean IIS on the desktop? or is there an lighter weight mechanism?), sync'ed with the server at home, so if I am on the move I can still access this and make this part of my day-to-day workflow.
You could build a unique solution, with many class library projects inside. Each project would address a specific scenario, something like this:
MyStuff (Solution)
MyStuff.Common
MyStuff.Validation
MyStuff.Web
MyStuff.Encryption
etc.
Then you can put this solution on an online versioning service like bitbucket or assembla, so you can access your source code from anywhere, edit it and commit it back to the server. This way you get the advantages of versioning and you store your code on a remote server so even if your harddisk breaks it's not a problem, cause what's on the server is what matters.
You should either look into a source control system (Git perhaps?) or into a file storage / syncing / sharing service like DropBox.
DropBox would allow you to access code snippets from wherever you are and works really easily (just drop a file into a folder).
If you need versioning and branching you're going to have to look into a source control system. Since you have a server at home, that should be no problem.
I have a somewhat unstable internet connection. I'd like to have the Flex 3 API on my local system for internet down times, but I cant find where it's available for download, or how to generate it.
Does anyone have a link to a downloadable API spec or have instruction on how to generate it.
Thanks
No need to crawl, just unzip: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/flex3_documentation.zip.
There are download links on this page to various documents: http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flex/
If you want the Language Reference (and I think that is what you are asking for) which is normally only available as LiveDocs, you'll need to use a website mirroring tool to copy the whole thing to your computer. A tool like HTTrack ( http://www.httrack.com/ ) can help you do that. Just be sure you limit the crawler in HTTrack to only download files with a URL that starts with http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/. Remember that what you will have will be a snapshot of the live docs, so you won't see new comments that get added to it, or revisions made by Adobe unless you download it again later.