Downloading projects
Hi, great service! Find it very useful to do some development on the move or when I'm on a non development machine. Also a nice clean interface keeps things simple.
Just have a suggestion that I would find very useful and I'm sure a few more people would! When downloading a built project, is there anyway for it to be compressed to a .zip? Or maybe a built executable to be included in a project export zip?
Anytime I do work from behind a proxy I cannot download to my work to test since they usually block .exe extensions but not .zips.
That would be awesome! Take that pesky over zelous proxies!
Thanks for a quick reply as well.
lol - damn proxies!
How are you liking the service? Any other major feedback? Features you'd like to request?
The service is great, a very nice clean layout and nifty syntax highlighting make for a great experience. Get the odd random error from php but that gets fixed by a refresh.
Most of the things I have thought of have already been mentioned like Intellisense like drop downs. The only thing I haven't seen mentioned it different .net platforms. Maybe move along to .net 4?
Looking forward to new languages like python though, that would be good.
We should have .net 4 in the next month or so, just juggling other priorities aswell :)
Cool.
I have noticed a few small bugs along my travells as well. The autosave feature seems to think it can tell time better than me! If I open a project in the IDE it will always tell me that a newer autosave version exists.
For instance I was working on a project, closed it and reopened it about 5 minutes later, this was at about 14:00. When I reopened it, autosave told me a more up to date version exists from 10:00, I don't think the project existed at that time.
My desktop is set to GMT, but my proxy exits in a CET time zone so I'm guessing it is something to do with the time zone difference as Compilr is in a Canadian time zone I presume.
Another one, when I right click on my project in the right hand side pane if the IDE and try to add a new file, I get told to upgrade my account as I don't have enough space :S
Third and final one (for now, lol), when I try to export a project, the compression seems to be very hit and miss. Sometimes the project will get compressed and allow me to download, other times the compression window just keeps scrolling and never finishes.
Hope these help you.
Yah, we could probably add some modal pop-up that asks if you'd like to download it in .zip format or .exe format. I'll add it to our list.
Developer - Compilr.com