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Flex Builder -clean on OSX
This one had me stumped for a while, since I am a longtime Windows guy. Every now and then you need to run the “-clean” option on the command line to get Flex Builder (née Eclipse) to behave. In OSX...
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OSX: Time Machine breaks Web Sharing
If you do a reinstall from a Time Machine backup, then Apache 2 will not startup. This is because the logs are not restored. You must recreate the log directory in Terminal: $ cd /private/var/log $...
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Adobe compc ant task fails with multiple compiles
I have an ant task to generate a dozen swcs from a pile of source code. The compc task Adobe ships with Flex SDK blows up after about 7 compiles. Weak. Here’s the stack trace: [compc] Error: PermGen...
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Flex Builder WTF
The Flex Builder properties palette only allows a “default application” class to be set in the default (a.k.a untyped) package. WTF. So, you have to manually edit the .actionScriptProperties file to...
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StageVideo plugin up on Adobe OSMF Marketplace
This plugin is a rudimentary implementation of StageVideo in an OSMF context. I will post an in-depth article soon (if my wife doesn’t give birth this week)....
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Adjust timeout for Flash Player in FireFox 4
I find myself wishing I could either turn off the plugin timeout during debugging, or make it shorter. Many times when I get an unhandled error in the Flash debug player, I am unable to dismiss the...
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Quick Rollback in SVN
From the comments on this post: http://aralbalkan.com/1381/ $ svn cat -r [rev] [filename] > [workingcopy filename] for example: $ svn cat -r 17450 build.xml > build.xml
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MAMP apache is busted on Yosemite, here’s the fix: In /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin, rename the file “envvars” to “_envvars” From https://twitter.com/mamp_en/status/496668261619335169 and...
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OSMF: Plugin Fun, Round One
I noticed some strange network behavior when loading custom plugins at runtime. They are requested twice. I had it in my mental backlog to investiagte, but a colleague beat me to it. This loading...
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Gradle Wrapper for cross-platform builds with Node.js
Like every other JavaScript project on Earth, our stuff uses node.js and npm modules to lint, standardize, unit test, document, and compress the source. These tasks are executed by Grunt. This type...
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Eclipse Roku Plugin : How to expose the Deployment Wizard
When I wanted to use the Deployment wizard to deploy a Roku app to my test player, the only way I could conjure up the deployment configuration window was to invoke the BrightScript Silent Deployment...
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