Individually, they’re lovely: now it’s open-source, StyleCop seems to be (finally!) getting the love and attention it needs, NuGet has rapidly come of age to be the one-stop-shop for package management in .NET without the angle-bracket heartache that is Maven, and Jenkins, well, Jenkins just rocks.
But together they don’t play nice at all.
Previously I ranted about JQuery Mobile and the immature state of mobile development tools. While I was on that project I reckoned it might be a good idea to use an emulator so I could test what my mobile Web site might look like in real life.
A nice idea, but in practice it seems the mobile toolchain is… rather more full of good intentions than actual capability.
In which our intrepid developer ventures into the deep waters of mobile JavaScript development.
Bishop: “I’m afraid you’ve got a bad egg, Mr Jones”; Curate: “Oh, no, my Lord, I assure you that parts of it are excellent!”
“True Humility” by George du Maurier, originally published in Punch, 1895.
I’m really a server-side fellow, at home with code that can be unit tested and where the only user is a computer. I suspect like most developers I find computers more predictable than people…
I’ve just finished a quick proof-of-concept for a nice bunch of people who wanted an API for their Web site. We needed a proof-of-concept for the proof-of-concept so we thought “well, what about a mobile Web site that calls the API?”