Rich Internet Applications and the systems that drive them
Posted in Eclipse, Flex Builder on Feb 29th, 2008
Earlier this week I discovered a keyboard shortcut that will crash Eclipse on Mac OS X Leopard. There’s a fix for the problem so I wanted to blog the solution for any and all that might stumble across this issue in the future.
To be clear, as far as I can tell the bug only affects [...]
Posted in Eclipse, Flex Builder on Aug 31st, 2007
Eclipse Fast View is a very handy feature that enables docking and undocking of Eclipse views. If you consistently find yourself looking for more room in Eclipse then Fast View is for you. The screencast after the jump demonstrates Fast View in action.
Posted in AIR, Eclipse, Flex Builder on Jul 10th, 2007
If your web server refuses to serve-up your shiny new AIR app, the problem just might be the MIME type or lack there of. Mike Chambers posted on this topic awhile back and I bumped into it again yesterday (how quickly we forget!) so I thought I’d blog it for my own sake and yours.
The [...]
Posted in ColdFusion, Eclipse on Mar 1st, 2007
In this post I’ll explain how to assign an Eclipse editor to a specific file by name.
Why is this necessary? This blog is running on Machblog Beta 2. Machblog obfuscates the the MachII configuration file by adding a .cfm extension to the file, so it ends-up being mach-ii.xml.cfm. This technique is highly effective, simple and [...]