Alagad Ally - Web Development Task Force

There hasn’t been a ton of interest when I’ve posted multi-touch subject matter on this blog in the past. But I’m not letting that stop me.  I’m excited about the new features in the Beta version of Adobe Air …

Adobe’s Flex framework is a beautiful tool for building forward facing applications and exposing data, editing data and visualizing data in a variety of different ways. Many companies may be avoiding using this technology simply because they feel that …

Adobe released Air 2 in Beta on the labs section of their website last evening. I’ve been building multi-touch applications in Flash and Flex for the past two year. In order to do this in the past you had …

I’d like to encourage the general Flex community to take a second to build a quick custom preloader for the project that they are currently working on. It doesn’t take but a minute or two and it will distinguish …

I received the following question in email this morning and I thought it would create a pretty good blog entry:

Hi Doug,

Thanks
for the meetup presentation for Ant.  I’m getting into SVN and ANT at
the moment and was looking for some advice on my setup.

I
have a dev server with an SVN repo, a staging server and a live
server.  What is the best way to upload changes from dev to staging. 
It would be individual files and folders rather than the whole
application.  Do you think FTP from the repo to staging, if thats
possible?

Many Thanks
This is a
variation on a fairly common question I get about how we deploy
applications at Alagad.  It seems that a lot of people have
applications that are made up of lots of files.  I get the impression
that they’re used to working in an environment where, when deploying
their application, they only deploy the files that have been modified.