Saturday, September 3, 2011

Mobile Development Resources

Flex Resources
The following Flex ebooks are not too hard to find on the www:
  • Flex in a week 4.5
  • Adobe Flex 4.5 Fundamentals: Training from the Source
  • Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4 Bible
  • Enterprise Development with Flex (Adobe Dev Lib) 2010

Why MonoTouch And Mono For Android

Visual Studio Themes - Dark Background

If you are using a mild VS theme which has a grey background and light brown text:

you may have problems with some html tags having the same color as its text.  You need to change the "default" color 0x020000000 to your desired color.
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ChangingYourColorsInVisualStudioNETBlackVersusWhite.aspx

The standard options to look out for are options-fonts->

  • Razor
  • Plain Text
  • Line Numbers
  • Comments
  • Identifier
  • Keyword
  • Operator
  • String
  • UserTypes

Removing Empty Folders In Command Prompt

For a quick way to batch remove all empty folders, "cd" into that folder and perform the following:

for /f "usebackq delims=" %d in (`"dir /ad/b/s | sort /R"`) do rd "%d"

Please backup the source folder before doing so, just in case.  Afterwards, you can use beyond compare and order by folder size to compare the results.