Some feedback on my previous
article from people back home made me realise I made quite a bold
statement without really explaining myself. My argument has no value
for some people in SA as I am currently residing in the UK. I am fine
with this as I know I will never win the expat argument no matter how
hard I try. So this is a lame attempt to cover up some holes I left in
my previous post but I can guarantee you there is no back peddling done
here.
I recently spoke to a friend
of mine about the usage of Flash in the South African market. Being in
London I kinda felt I needed some inside info before I can even attempt
to write anything about the industry. Regardless of the fact that I
used to work as an Actionscripter in SA for a few years. Spending my
time on little intro's and banner ads, hoping some car manufacturer
will ask us to do a campaign microsite, wasn't exaclty keeping me on
the edge of my seat. So you may ask why I would want to write anything
about a country's industry that I am not living in. That is a perfectly
good question with a very simple answer. South Africa is scared of
Flash.
There are still many companies
using Microsoft Visual SourceSafe even though Micorsoft themselves have
decided not to extend their support for this piece of archaic software.
We are still using it and in the process of moving over to Subversion.
I have struggled for a bit to get this ant script set up to communicate
with VSS . There aren't many resources available and my feeling is that
is simply because less people are using VSS and even less use an Ant
script + VSS. Hopefully this build script will help the individuals who
are still stuck using VSS.
