3 questions about your coding habits

[Peter Haworth]

I forgot to mention in my reply that I use my lcStackBrowser plugin's
Checkpoint feature for auto saves.  It allows me to save at specific
intervals or on request and I can assign a description to each checkpoint.
The checkpoints are kept in a zip file in the same folder as the stack file
and I can restore a specific checkpoint at any time.

Pete
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Ralph DiMola <rdimola at evergreeninfo.net>
wrote:

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