HFCD is an extension for Flash/Flex Builder that delegates compilation of your Flex application to a special "compiler daemon" which can run locally or on a remote machine. The goal of the project is simple: faster builds! HFCD is the...… Read More

In the past couple of months, I managed to fix a few issues and add some enhancements to HFCD. They are now in the latest HFCD build (2010-09-18). Let me briefly describe what they are: Exclusion Filters The default behavior… Read More

Recently I’ve received an email from a Flex developer. He told me that his development team has been using HFCD for Flex development. What impressed me was his team hardware setup. Basically, his team of developers connect Flex Builder running… Read More

Some developers don’t use Flex Builder and wonder how they can use HFCD from the command line or with their favorite Flex IDEs. I have just made some HFCD zip archives available: http://bytecode-workshop.com/hfcd/3/download/hfcd_3.2.0_full.zip http://bytecode-workshop.com/hfcd/3/download/hfcd_3.3.0_full.zip http://bytecode-workshop.com/hfcd/3/download/hfcd_3.4.1_full.zip http://bytecode-workshop.com/hfcd/3/download/hfcd_3.5.0_full.zip http://bytecode-workshop.com/hfcd/4/download/hfcd_4.0.0_full.zip http://bytecode-workshop.com/hfcd/4/download/hfcd_4.1.0_full.zip You don’t… Read More

Dear readers, HFCD for Flex 4.1 is now available. Sorry for the delay. I thought it would take me a week or two to release it. But I wasted a little bit of time working on the wrong Flex SDK… Read More

I started working on an HFCD update for Flex 4.1 yesterday. Looks like it will not be a lot of work for me so I plan to make it available early next week. If you would like to know the… Read More

I’m going to present at the Flex User Group meetings in Toronto and Ottawa this month (2010/06) and in Washington DC next month (2010/07). Title: In-depth look at the Flex compiler and HFCD Agenda: Basic architecture of the Flex compiler… Read More

Hi, I’m pleased to announce that HFCD 4 is now officially available. HFCD 4 for Flash Builder achieves better Flex (full and incremental) build performance than Flex 3 and Flex 4 by utilizing: all of the Flex 4 compiler performance… Read More

In several of my previous posts about the use of the HFCD ant tasks, HFCD Ant Tasks Outperform Adobe Flex Ant Tasks… Ant Tasks for HFCD Now Available Coming Soon: Ant Tasks for HFCD I only mentioned in the build.xml… Read More

Last week was an exciting week. Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 were out FINALLY! I had HFCD 3 going final as well… actually, one business day before the Flex 4 official announcement! Now that Flex 4 and Flash Builder… Read More

I think all of you know that the Flex compiler code is licensed under Mozilla Public License. That means if you change the code and use it in your product, you have to make your change available under MPL. Technically… Read More

Hi guys, I’ve just upgraded HFCD 3 to Release Candidate 2 and the official release is… “right around the corner”.  I’ve also updated stopcoding.org. Please check it out. The installation guide and user guide are also available. Installation Guide: http://stopcoding.org/hfcd/doc/HFCD-3-Installation-Guide.pdf… Read More

I’ve just produced some performance benchmark for HFCD Ant tasks and would like to share one test result with you. There is a build.xml file in the Flex SDK/frameworks directory. Developers can use this build.xml to build the Flex framework:… Read More

Hello, HFCD is going to expire in a few days, so here is another update. HFCD 3: http://stopcoding.org/hfcd/3/download HFCD 4: http://stopcoding.org/hfcd/4/download There are several bug fixes and some nice enhancements: 1. I should have mentioned in my last HFCD update… Read More

Now that HFCD supports Apache Ant, Flex IDEs other than Flex Builder (e.g. FDT and IntelliJ IDEA) can take advantage of some of the core functionalities of HFCD to improve build performance. In this post I’m going to briefly describe… Read More

Hello, a couple of months ago, I was asked by some developers about adding support for Apache Ant. They wanted to have ant support because they either wanted to use HFCD in their build processes or they used Flex IDEs… Read More