Update: it turned out that removal of my blog from feeds.adobe.com was caused by a failure of the site’s database. I have published a blog post Adobe and feeds.adobe.com team, please accept my apology explaining what exactly happened. I have to say I am really disappointed with this move. I really did not expected that. [...]
Today I got my hands on fresh Windows 7 RC so I decided to give it a shot. I installed it on VirtualBox 2.2, VM with 1GB of RAM and I have to admit, I am impressed. There is no visible changes in the UI, the only thing that’s changed is the installer, it is really [...]
Tom Chiverton has logged a support request in Adobe JIRA for Flex Builder for Linux. Quick recap – a week ago Ben Forta being asked what is the status of Flex Builder for Linux answered: the project is currently on hold. There is not enough requisition for the product to continue its development. Developers want [...]
For the domain this blog is running on I have a separate GMail account, I wanted my server to relay all email there. I was searching quite a lot for detailed info on how to set up postfix correctly but could not find any. All information was scattered across different blogs, websites, forums. I just achieved the [...]
Earlier this month I mentioned I have found an issue with mx.controls.textClasses.TextRange class. This problem was identified on Linux (Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04 using Flash Player 10,0,22,87) and could not be replicated on Windows Vista and 7 with latest Flash Player. I had no chance to test it on OSX. To visualize the problem I am [...]
This post is an introduction to the next post that I am going to publish within next few days. It describes one of the features of MySQL on AIR, SQL code tokenizer, used for code coloring. For those who have no idea what a tokenizer is there is a great introduction on Wikipedia. In a [...]
Yesterday, 21st of April, Ben Forta came to London to give a talk about ColdFusion 9 new features. It was really good session, Ben demoed all new major ones. Integration with Hibernate, new Adobe AIR ColdFusion services and of course brand new ColdFusion IDE codenamed Bolt (which does look pretty solid by the way) were [...]
There is a lot of buzz recently around Railo since version 3.1 finally went open source and many well known CF developers joined the project. This gave me the motivation to finally see how Railo really works. I decided to give it a shot on one of already running applications. The choice was made, I [...]
First, I have to say that I am big fan of Flex technology. I have worked a little bit with Flex 1, then 1.5 and now full time with Flex 2 and 3. I saw how the platform evolved, I saw Macromedia’s and Adobe’s enthusiasm when they have been announcing every new release. I am [...]
I have just finished MySQL on AIR project website. It is available here: http://mysqlonair.gruchalski.com/. No release download yet, not all information is there. It is just a first step. First release build should appear there withing next few days.