Posts Tagged ‘Chirpy’
I’m excited to announce the release of Chirpy v.1.0.0.5–Chirpy to the XXXtreme. That’s right. This version of Chirpy will blow the pants off of every clothed person in the universe. So, if you haven’t gotten dressed already, don’t bother… Before diving too deep into the realm of the extreme, let me re-divulge the following preface: if you’re completely new to the madness of Chirpy, I recommend that read about Chirpy’s core features.
Let’s start with the simplest part: download Chirpy at codeplex. Start fiddling around. If something doesn’t work complain about it. If something does work, tweet or blog about how awesome your life has become. Finally, if you’re feeling really frisky, download Chirpy’s source code and add something. I don’t care what it is. Just add something. Surprise me. I’ll probably love you forever. Or, I’ll throw something at you.
Already know sir Zippy biblically? Well, then. Due to overwhelming demand (and a deadly case of the avian bird flu), Chirpy (aka Chirpy Zippy) is now available as an Alpha release on Codeplex.
Let’s start with the obvious. Adding Visual Studio AddIns. First, open your My Documents/Visual Studio folder (for me, it’s “C:\Users\Evan\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\”). If you don’t see a folder here named “AddIns,” go ahead and create it. Now, when you’re adding a new AddIn to Visual Studio, all you’ll have to do (in most cases) is this: drop the .AddIn and .dll files into the AddIns folder.
Wayne Brantley released a nice DotLess translator a couple months ago. Before that, Phil Haack created a nice T4 template for mashing and minifying DotLess, Css, and Js files. Today, in the spirit of my Zippy Series, I’ve enhanced (or deprecated [on?]) Wayne’s creation with a couple of new features, which I’ll discuss briefly below.
