3 questions about your coding habits

[Ralph DiMola]

 1. I keep stacks on the server.
 2. My main dev platform is Windows.
 3. I create Android apps on Windows.
 4. I do text/DB/other processing on Windows using stacks/files on server.
 5. I use the Mac for:
	A. Build iOS apps.
 	B. iOS simulator.
 	C. Move apps to physical Apple devices.
 6. The Mac does not always correctly refresh smb shares. There is no "F5"
on a Mac to refresh files. SMB on Mac flakey and scares me.
 7. Always run with admin privs.
 8. I Point the "User Extensions" on both platforms to a share on the
server.
 9. I put my library of commands/functions in library stacks on the server.
I segregate them into stacks by class.
10. The most annoying thing is that when switching platforms one has to
reset the standalone destination folder every time. Creating a .app to an
smb share does not work.
11. I do my own version control. I put a -000n suffix at the end of stack
files. I increment it several times a day. I always increment it at the
start of a day even if there were no changes.
12. I save, save, save. My auto-save is constant Ctrl S's.
13. All file references are relative to the stack path. I never refer to an
asset outside of the stack path. (except for mobile device)
14. I locate stacks by Customer/Project

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net


-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf
Of Richard Gaskin
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 11:22 PM
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: 3 questions about your coding habits

1. When you're working on stack files, do you always keep them somewhere in
your Home folder, or run with admin privileges and keep them somewhere else
(e.g. Applications)?

2. Do you regularly switch among different OSes, and if so how do you sync
your files (drag-and-drop, rsync, OwnCloud, or something else), or do you
bypass syncing altogether by mounting a shared volume?

3. If you do sync among multiple OSes, do you maintain the same paths to
your stack files on each system relative to your home folder?
e.g.
Mac:
/Users/rg/SomeProject/MyStack.livecode
Linux:
/home/rg/SomeProject/MyStack.livecode

If the latter, then specialFolderPath("home") works as a way of storing
relative paths for multi-OS workflows in a tool I'm working on....

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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