Of deadlines and unwanted errors
June 30, 2007Deadlines suck, period. Ever notice how in the last final hours illogical stupid problems crop up and hamper you at your every turn when you least need it? Well, so did I. When working on some code to get some ruby / flex interaction done, Flex managed to come up with a new error.
The issue in question involved the error message: “An internal build error has occurred. Please check the Error Log.” when I was compiling my project. Absolutely nothing worked to get the problem fixed, including all the normal practices such as cleaning, recreating workspace, and a few more pointless desperate attempts to get it working.
The error log itself, found in the .metadata file of a workspace under “.log”, was a mess with all manner of declarations. Impossible to make out I then found an entry on the Internet from someone with a similar problem.
Basic programming mistake, never forget the semicolon after declaring a variable.
public class SomeClass
{
public var someKindofVariable:Object
}
Guess what you have to do… time and again when finding yourself in this situation, is start rolling back code and begin to do a detailed analysis for syntax errors that normally do not pose any problems… which is easier said than done, given the style that I program at times.
