Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac?
Arghh.. I should have never said anything - daughter drops ipod and it's now rather unhappy - three weeks out of warranty... :-( - Original Message - From: Paul Andrews To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 12:37 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac? It just goes to show you can't generalise about these things. We have an inspiron 8200 still going strong and my son was skeptical that the ipod classic that we bought our daughter would last long since his friends had had experiences. Her ipod is going strong, his MP3player is pretty useless now and he's going to buy the ipod classic he warned us about.. - Original Message - From: Nick Collins To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 2:52 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac? I've had the same problems with PCs though. I have a Dell Inspiron that has had to have the screen replaced twice, the keyboard replaced twice because it just stopped working, the video card replaced, and the motherboard replaced under warranty. It literally is almost a completely new laptop from when I first bought it. On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Weyert de Boer w...@innerfuse.biz wrote: Wow. Currently, each notebook I have had from Apple needed fixes via warranty. My G4 got is screen replaced and the MBP is still a big drama with two topcase replacements, two screens and keyboard key fix. Basically it needs to a new warranty because the last time they broke the keyboard lightning and the topcase is falling apart again while it hasn't even travelled since the last fix. Terrible :(
Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac?
It just goes to show you can't generalise about these things. We have an inspiron 8200 still going strong and my son was skeptical that the ipod classic that we bought our daughter would last long since his friends had had experiences. Her ipod is going strong, his MP3player is pretty useless now and he's going to buy the ipod classic he warned us about.. - Original Message - From: Nick Collins To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 2:52 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac? I've had the same problems with PCs though. I have a Dell Inspiron that has had to have the screen replaced twice, the keyboard replaced twice because it just stopped working, the video card replaced, and the motherboard replaced under warranty. It literally is almost a completely new laptop from when I first bought it. On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Weyert de Boer w...@innerfuse.biz wrote: Wow. Currently, each notebook I have had from Apple needed fixes via warranty. My G4 got is screen replaced and the MBP is still a big drama with two topcase replacements, two screens and keyboard key fix. Basically it needs to a new warranty because the last time they broke the keyboard lightning and the topcase is falling apart again while it hasn't even travelled since the last fix. Terrible :(
Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac?
I tend to still use both a PC and a Mac, though am leaning towards the latter. The only real issues I've had are with Windows in a VM on a MAC. I have all my VMs on a shard drive so that it can be packed in the rugsack when I'm on the move. As far as dev goes - no real issues. Incidentally I use an iMac 24 with 4GB ram for most of my dev. Hope this helps J 2008/12/30 Simon Bailey si...@newtriks.com I have only ever worked with Flex Builder on a Mac and have no complaints whatsoever. I joined the mac posse about 5 years ago and never looked back. There only real issues I have had with Adobe related software was AIR, resolved now but bwoy it was a grade A pain! Simon On 29 Dec 2008, at 10:24, composerguru wrote: I'm thinking of converting now that I've dumped Vista... just wondering what your experience might be and if you recommend the change? Thanks in advance, Kevin
Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac?
Wow. Currently, each notebook I have had from Apple needed fixes via warranty. My G4 got is screen replaced and the MBP is still a big drama with two topcase replacements, two screens and keyboard key fix. Basically it needs to a new warranty because the last time they broke the keyboard lightning and the topcase is falling apart again while it hasn't even travelled since the last fix. Terrible :(
Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac?
I've had the same problems with PCs though. I have a Dell Inspiron that has had to have the screen replaced twice, the keyboard replaced twice because it just stopped working, the video card replaced, and the motherboard replaced under warranty. It literally is almost a completely new laptop from when I first bought it. On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Weyert de Boer w...@innerfuse.biz wrote: Wow. Currently, each notebook I have had from Apple needed fixes via warranty. My G4 got is screen replaced and the MBP is still a big drama with two topcase replacements, two screens and keyboard key fix. Basically it needs to a new warranty because the last time they broke the keyboard lightning and the topcase is falling apart again while it hasn't even travelled since the last fix. Terrible :(
Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac?
What is better or worse is a matter of opinion, I think. I have used FB on Windows and Mac, and it really doesn't matter. I've switched to the Mac, as a developer, fulltime, and I'm having no problems, it's solid. It seems to me that the biggest problems people have are more about which version of the library/player/AIR they are using than FB. I say choose the OS you like, and get Flex, FB or not. You're not getting dinged here. Personally, I'd choose the Mac in a heartbeat. From: Jim Hayes j...@primalpictures.com To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 4:04:20 AM Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac? General platform discussions aside, what is it that makes flexbuilder “slightly worse” on mac than it is in windows? I’m considering trying out a macbook pro as my next laptop (been on windows, sometimes linux, for past ten years or so), butmost of my work is in flexbuilder these days so it would be nice to know. Many thanks! -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Josh McDonald Sent: 29 December 2008 10:44 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac? Kevlar suit... *check*! It's good. I'm happy with it, many people are. I think it's much better, many people agree. And many *other* people here will call me a big girl for thinking so. Which I find hilarious. But this is a well-abused topic here. Builder is slightly better in Windows. in my opinion everything else is better on Mac :) -Josh On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:24 PM, composerguru kbmulvihill@ gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking of converting now that I've dumped Vista... just wondering what your experience might be and if you recommend the change? Thanks in advance, Kevin - - -- -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/flexcoders /files/flexcoder sFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share. acrobat.com/ adc/document. do?docid= 942dbdc8- e469-446f- b4cf-1e62079f684 7 Search Archives: http://www.mail- archive.com/ flexcoders% 40yahoogroups. comYahoo! Groups Links -- Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog! :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: j...@gfunk007. com :: http://flex. joshmcdonald. info/ :: http://twitter. com/sophistifunk __ This communication is from Primal Pictures Ltd., a company registered in England and Wales with registration No. 02622298 and registered office: 4th Floor, Tennyson House, 159-165 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5PA, UK. VAT registration No. 648874577. This e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. It may be read, copied and used only by the intended recipient. If you have received it in error, please contact the sender immediately by return e-mail or by telephoning +44(0)20 7637 1010. Please then delete the e-mail and do not disclose its contents to any person. This email has been scanned for Primal Pictures by the MessageLabs Email Security System. __
Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac?
I wonder if people see problems with teams of Mac Windows machines? We sometimes see some problems, and i wonder if the problem comes from a Mac user, who joined our Team lately. We share some of our Workspace settings via SubVersion. We don't use absolute pathes in our settings though. Cheers Ralf. On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Cole Joplin cole_jop...@yahoo.com wrote: What is better or worse is a matter of opinion, I think. I have used FB on Windows and Mac, and it really doesn't matter. I've switched to the Mac, as a developer, fulltime, and I'm having no problems, it's solid. It seems to me that the biggest problems people have are more about which version of the library/player/AIR they are using than FB. I say choose the OS you like, and get Flex, FB or not. You're not getting dinged here. Personally, I'd choose the Mac in a heartbeat. From: Jim Hayes j...@primalpictures.com To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 4:04:20 AM Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac? General platform discussions aside, what is it that makes flexbuilder slightly worse on mac than it is in windows? I'm considering trying out a macbook pro as my next laptop (been on windows, sometimes linux, for past ten years or so), but most of my work is in flexbuilder these days so it would be nice to know. Many thanks! -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Josh McDonald Sent: 29 December 2008 10:44 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac? Kevlar suit... *check*! It's good. I'm happy with it, many people are. I think it's much better, many people agree. And many *other* people here will call me a big girl for thinking so. Which I find hilarious. But this is a well-abused topic here. Builder is slightly better in Windows. in my opinion everything else is better on Mac :) -Josh On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:24 PM, composerguru kbmulvihill@ gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking of converting now that I've dumped Vista... just wondering what your experience might be and if you recommend the change? Thanks in advance, Kevin - - -- -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/flexcoders /files/flexcoder sFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share. acrobat.com/ adc/document. do?docid= 942dbdc8- e469-446f- b4cf-1e62079f684 7 Search Archives: http://www.mail- archive.com/ flexcoders% 40yahoogroups. comYahoo! Groups Links -- Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog! :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: j...@gfunk007. com :: http://flex. joshmcdonald. info/ :: http://twitter. com/sophistifunk __ This communication is from Primal Pictures Ltd., a company registered in England and Wales with registration No. 02622298 and registered office: 4th Floor, Tennyson House, 159-165 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5PA, UK. VAT registration No. 648874577. This e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. It may be read, copied and used only by the intended recipient. If you have received it in error, please contact the sender immediately by return e-mail or by telephoning +44(0)20 7637 1010. Please then delete the e-mail and do not disclose its contents to any person. This email has been scanned for Primal Pictures by the MessageLabs Email Security System. __
RE: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac?
Speaking for my organization, we have a team with both platforms as well as a number who run Mac's in a virtualized environment with Flex on both the Mac and PC sides. Speaking for us, I can say the biggest single issue we have is the fact that project files get checked in. Although the project files work equally on both platforms, what really gums up the works is going thru Flex upgrade, for example SDK 3.0 to SDK 3.1, can be a big headache. Don't get me wrong, checking in project files can provide a significant productivity gain as getting developers up to speed in a common development environment is a big help. When the SDK string, in the .actionScriptProperties gets parsed to point to either an SDK that isn't there anymore or its identity has changed, you will get to the point where the project properties can no longer be viewed or modified. We has seen this cause workspace and compiler errors as well. The only reasonable workaround to this condition is to create new empty projects, move those new project files aside, checkout your project and then restore those newly created project files and then go through the process of manually setting up your projects. So you ask yourself, why not just check-in updated project files? Certainly a solution however there are a number of reasons why I choose to avoid that. The project files carry with them asset and class bindings that may or may not be appropriate for each developer to automatically inherit. KFB From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ralf Bokelberg Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 11:43 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac? I wonder if people see problems with teams of Mac Windows machines? We sometimes see some problems, and i wonder if the problem comes from a Mac user, who joined our Team lately. We share some of our Workspace settings via SubVersion. We don't use absolute pathes in our settings though. Cheers Ralf. On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Cole Joplin cole_jop...@yahoo.com mailto:cole_joplin%40yahoo.com wrote: What is better or worse is a matter of opinion, I think. I have used FB on Windows and Mac, and it really doesn't matter. I've switched to the Mac, as a developer, fulltime, and I'm having no problems, it's solid. It seems to me that the biggest problems people have are more about which version of the library/player/AIR they are using than FB. I say choose the OS you like, and get Flex, FB or not. You're not getting dinged here. Personally, I'd choose the Mac in a heartbeat. From: Jim Hayes j...@primalpictures.com mailto:jim%40primalpictures.com To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 4:04:20 AM Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac? General platform discussions aside, what is it that makes flexbuilder slightly worse on mac than it is in windows? I'm considering trying out a macbook pro as my next laptop (been on windows, sometimes linux, for past ten years or so), but most of my work is in flexbuilder these days so it would be nice to know. Many thanks! -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Josh McDonald Sent: 29 December 2008 10:44 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac? Kevlar suit... *check*! It's good. I'm happy with it, many people are. I think it's much better, many people agree. And many *other* people here will call me a big girl for thinking so. Which I find hilarious. But this is a well-abused topic here. Builder is slightly better in Windows. in my opinion everything else is better on Mac :) -Josh On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:24 PM, composerguru kbmulvihill@ gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking of converting now that I've dumped Vista... just wondering what your experience might be and if you recommend the change? Thanks in advance, Kevin - - -- -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/flexcoders /files/flexcoder sFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share. acrobat.com/ adc/document. do?docid= 942dbdc8- e469-446f- b4cf-1e62079f684 7 Search Archives: http://www.mail- archive.com/ flexcoders% 40yahoogroups. comYahoo! Groups Links -- Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog! :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: j...@gfunk007. com :: http://flex. joshmcdonald. info/ :: http://twitter. com/sophistifunk __ This communication is from Primal Pictures Ltd., a company registered in England and Wales
Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac?
I have only ever worked with Flex Builder on a Mac and have no complaints whatsoever. I joined the mac posse about 5 years ago and never looked back. There only real issues I have had with Adobe related software was AIR, resolved now but bwoy it was a grade A pain! Simon On 29 Dec 2008, at 10:24, composerguru wrote: I'm thinking of converting now that I've dumped Vista... just wondering what your experience might be and if you recommend the change? Thanks in advance, Kevin
Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac?
Kevlar suit... *check*! It's good. I'm happy with it, many people are. I think it's much better, many people agree. And many *other* people here will call me a big girl for thinking so. Which I find hilarious. But this is a well-abused topic here. Builder is slightly better in Windows. in my opinion everything else is better on Mac :) -Josh On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:24 PM, composerguru kbmulvih...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking of converting now that I've dumped Vista... just wondering what your experience might be and if you recommend the change? Thanks in advance, Kevin -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links -- Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog! :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: j...@gfunk007.com :: http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ :: http://twitter.com/sophistifunk
Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac?
I highly recommend searching the archive for the list. There was a pretty large discussion regarding this exact topic within the last few months. Dnk Sent from my iPhone On 29-Dec-08, at 2:24 AM, composerguru kbmulvih...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking of converting now that I've dumped Vista... just wondering what your experience might be and if you recommend the change? Thanks in advance, Kevin
RE: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac?
General platform discussions aside, what is it that makes flexbuilder slightly worse on mac than it is in windows? I'm considering trying out a macbook pro as my next laptop (been on windows, sometimes linux, for past ten years or so), but most of my work is in flexbuilder these days so it would be nice to know. Many thanks! -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Josh McDonald Sent: 29 December 2008 10:44 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac? Kevlar suit... *check*! It's good. I'm happy with it, many people are. I think it's much better, many people agree. And many *other* people here will call me a big girl for thinking so. Which I find hilarious. But this is a well-abused topic here. Builder is slightly better in Windows. in my opinion everything else is better on Mac :) -Josh On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:24 PM, composerguru kbmulvih...@gmail.com mailto:kbmulvih...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking of converting now that I've dumped Vista... just wondering what your experience might be and if you recommend the change? Thanks in advance, Kevin -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf- 1e62079f6847 https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf -1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo ! Groups Links (Yahoo! ID required) mailto:flexcoders-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com -- Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog! :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: j...@gfunk007.com mailto:j...@gfunk007.com :: http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ :: http://twitter.com/sophistifunk http://twitter.com/sophistifunk __ This communication is from Primal Pictures Ltd., a company registered in England and Wales with registration No. 02622298 and registered office: 4th Floor, Tennyson House, 159-165 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5PA, UK. VAT registration No. 648874577. This e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. It may be read, copied and used only by the intended recipient. If you have received it in error, please contact the sender immediately by return e-mail or by telephoning +44(0)20 7637 1010. Please then delete the e-mail and do not disclose its contents to any person. This email has been scanned for Primal Pictures by the MessageLabs Email Security System. __
Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac?
Just general stability, which is (AFAIK) all the fault of the Eclipse team and Apple HQ's low-prioritising of Java, not Adobe's. And IIRC there's a small part of the web service - AS3 generation stuff missing, but it's never been part of my workflow so I can't remember what that is. It's in the archives for the list though. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Jim Hayes j...@primalpictures.com wrote: General platform discussions aside, what is it that makes flexbuilder slightly worse on mac than it is in windows? I'm considering trying out a macbook pro as my next laptop (been on windows, sometimes linux, for past ten years or so), but most of my work is in flexbuilder these days so it would be nice to know. Many thanks! -Original Message- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Josh McDonald *Sent:* 29 December 2008 10:44 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac? Kevlar suit... *check*! It's good. I'm happy with it, many people are. I think it's much better, many people agree. And many *other* people here will call me a big girl for thinking so. Which I find hilarious. But this is a well-abused topic here. Builder is slightly better in Windows. in my opinion everything else is better on Mac :) -Josh On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:24 PM, composerguru kbmulvih...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking of converting now that I've dumped Vista... just wondering what your experience might be and if you recommend the change? Thanks in advance, Kevin -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links -- Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog! :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: j...@gfunk007.com :: http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ :: http://twitter.com/sophistifunk __ This communication is from Primal Pictures Ltd., a company registered in England and Wales with registration No. 02622298 and registered office: 4th Floor, Tennyson House, 159-165 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5PA, UK. VAT registration No. 648874577. This e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. It may be read, copied and used only by the intended recipient. If you have received it in error, please contact the sender immediately by return e-mail or by telephoning +44(0)20 7637 1010. Please then delete the e-mail and do not disclose its contents to any person. This email has been scanned for Primal Pictures by the MessageLabs Email Security System. __ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Webhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join;_ylc=X3oDMTJnOXBnZjF2BF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzEyMjg2MTY3BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTAwNzIwNwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNzdG5ncwRzdGltZQMxMjMwNTQ4ODEz(Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digestflexcoders-dig...@yahoogroups.com?subject=email+delivery:+Digest| flexcoders-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com?subject=change+delivery+format:+Fully+Featured -- Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog! :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: j...@gfunk007.com :: http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ :: http://twitter.com/sophistifunk
[flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac?
I'm thinking of converting now that I've dumped Vista... just wondering what your experience might be and if you recommend the change? Thanks in advance, Kevin
Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac?
Flexbuilder on MacOSX sucks up memory like a hungry hog. Get 4Gb of RAM - you'll be glad you did. I'm stuck on an older MBP and 2Gb hasn't really provided much headroom since I started using FB3. Apart from that, it's all good. I haven't really had stability problems, just out of memory situations. On 29/12/2008, at 10:12 PM, Josh McDonald wrote: Just general stability, which is (AFAIK) all the fault of the Eclipse team and Apple HQ's low-prioritising of Java, not Adobe's. And IIRC there's a small part of the web service - AS3 generation stuff missing, but it's never been part of my workflow so I can't remember what that is. It's in the archives for the list though. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Jim Hayes j...@primalpictures.com wrote: General platform discussions aside, what is it that makes flexbuilder slightly worse on mac than it is in windows? I'm considering trying out a macbook pro as my next laptop (been on windows, sometimes linux, for past ten years or so), but most of my work is in flexbuilder these days so it would be nice to know. Many thanks! -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Josh McDonald Sent: 29 December 2008 10:44 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac? Kevlar suit... *check*! It's good. I'm happy with it, many people are. I think it's much better, many people agree. And many *other* people here will call me a big girl for thinking so. Which I find hilarious. But this is a well-abused topic here. Builder is slightly better in Windows. in my opinion everything else is better on Mac :) -Josh On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:24 PM, composerguru kbmulvih...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking of converting now that I've dumped Vista... just wondering what your experience might be and if you recommend the change? Thanks in advance, Kevin -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo ! Groups Links -- Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog! :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: j...@gfunk007.com :: http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ :: http://twitter.com/sophistifunk __ This communication is from Primal Pictures Ltd., a company registered in England and Wales with registration No. 02622298 and registered office: 4th Floor, Tennyson House, 159-165 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5PA, UK. VAT registration No. 648874577. This e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. It may be read, copied and used only by the intended recipient. If you have received it in error, please contact the sender immediately by return e-mail or by telephoning +44(0)20 7637 1010. Please then delete the e-mail and do not disclose its contents to any person. This email has been scanned for Primal Pictures by the MessageLabs Email Security System. __ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | -- Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog! :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: j...@gfunk007.com :: http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ :: http://twitter.com/sophistifunk
Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac?
It lacks some wizards in LCDS data connections, I think I use a MB for developing. Pretty good experience, that is :) Em 2008/12/29, às 11:12, Josh McDonald escreveu: Just general stability, which is (AFAIK) all the fault of the Eclipse team and Apple HQ's low-prioritising of Java, not Adobe's. And IIRC there's a small part of the web service - AS3 generation stuff missing, but it's never been part of my workflow so I can't remember what that is. It's in the archives for the list though. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Jim Hayes j...@primalpictures.com wrote: General platform discussions aside, what is it that makes flexbuilder slightly worse on mac than it is in windows? I'm considering trying out a macbook pro as my next laptop (been on windows, sometimes linux, for past ten years or so), but most of my work is in flexbuilder these days so it would be nice to know. Many thanks! -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Josh McDonald Sent: 29 December 2008 10:44 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac? Kevlar suit... *check*! It's good. I'm happy with it, many people are. I think it's much better, many people agree. And many *other* people here will call me a big girl for thinking so. Which I find hilarious. But this is a well-abused topic here. Builder is slightly better in Windows. in my opinion everything else is better on Mac :) -Josh On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:24 PM, composerguru kbmulvih...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking of converting now that I've dumped Vista... just wondering what your experience might be and if you recommend the change? Thanks in advance, Kevin -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo ! Groups Links -- Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog! :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: j...@gfunk007.com :: http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ :: http://twitter.com/sophistifunk __ This communication is from Primal Pictures Ltd., a company registered in England and Wales with registration No. 02622298 and registered office: 4th Floor, Tennyson House, 159-165 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5PA, UK. VAT registration No. 648874577. This e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. It may be read, copied and used only by the intended recipient. If you have received it in error, please contact the sender immediately by return e-mail or by telephoning +44(0)20 7637 1010. Please then delete the e-mail and do not disclose its contents to any person. This email has been scanned for Primal Pictures by the MessageLabs Email Security System. __ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | -- Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog! :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: j...@gfunk007.com :: http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ :: http://twitter.com/sophistifunk
Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac?
My 0.2 is that I love OS X Apple software but I found I can't rely on Apple hardware. Maybe its bad luck but I have always had hardware problems and more than once a warrantied, applecared machine still took more than a week to resolve. At one point I was heavily invested on Apple hardware but over time the hardware issues really impacted productivity. I have tried to protect against hardware issues with backups and redundant hardware but for a macs it means $$. So now I am a Windows guy. If this machine breaks, gets stolen or whatever I could replace it with $300 a 20 minute drive. From: composerguru kbmulvih...@gmail.com To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 2:24:40 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac? I'm thinking of converting now that I've dumped Vista... just wondering what your experience might be and if you recommend the change? Thanks in advance, Kevin
Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac?
I've developed on a MBP using Flex Builder 2 and 3 for years. I've never had any issue. Just recently upgraded my MacBook Pro to 4 gigs of RAM over the original 2, mostly so I can run a Fusion Virtual Machine at the same time I'm working in OS X. As far as Apple hardware goes... I always get AppleCare for laptops, but I haven't ever needed to use it. My previous Apple laptop, a PowerBook G4, is still going strong. It's almost 7 years old, and my wife uses it. It still runs like a champ. HTH, Nate On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:16 AM, ivo cervantes_v...@yahoo.com wrote: My 0.2 is that I love OS X Apple software but I found I can't rely on Apple hardware. Maybe its bad luck but I have always had hardware problems and more than once a warrantied, applecared machine still took more than a week to resolve. At one point I was heavily invested on Apple hardware but over time the hardware issues really impacted productivity. I have tried to protect against hardware issues with backups and redundant hardware but for a macs it means $$. So now I am a Windows guy. If this machine breaks, gets stolen or whatever I could replace it with $300 a 20 minute drive. -- *From:* composerguru kbmulvih...@gmail.com *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Monday, December 29, 2008 2:24:40 AM *Subject:* [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac? I'm thinking of converting now that I've dumped Vista... just wondering what your experience might be and if you recommend the change? Thanks in advance, Kevin -- Cheers, Nate http://blog.natebeck.net
