Groking the existing solution
I am sure most of the challenge of this project will be understanding someone else's architecture of the solution. Hopefully, the learning curve won't be too steep with Actionscript, which is the primary language used by flex and flash programmers to build interfaces (GUIs).Getting the source code
I was sitting in a chair on my front porch this am, sitting my coffee, thinking about the day ahead and the thought popped right in, "why not try browsing that svn address that Gary gave you where the source code is directly from the SVN client?" - maybe the login credentials are stored in the client? And, they were.
I was able to get the source code from the svn repository by browsing to the repository address from the SVN client, tortus. I had not used this in a long time, but my login credentials must have been stored in tortus, yea!. I was able to Checkout the repository from the trunk, that gives me everything I need into a new folder on my hard drive.
As an added bonus, when I checked out the repository, I found a .bak file of the database that actually would restore. I had been using a different one that was failing with messages like "wrong media family" - suggesting the version of the MSSQL I was trying to restore with was different, older, than the version that created the backup file. More on that to follow.
These are my remaining goals for this project
- recreate a swf from the source code,
- connect the swf remotly to the DB I just restored
- make a simple change to the source code (MXML or Actionscript) - recompile, deploy
- Much to re-learn about Actionscript....
