This should also work for any project that you can download the source for, that just happened to be Mate for me. I’m using Flex Builder 3 — not sure what would be different if anything with FB2.

1. Download the source using the directions here

2. Create a Flex Library Project in Flex Builder, let’s call it ‘MateLib’

3. Import the source into the project, leaving out all the .svn directories, such that your folder structure looks like:

MateLib
   /bin
   /com
      /asfusion
         /mate
            /etc....
   manifest.xml

4. Right click the project in the FB Navigator view and select: Properties -> Flex Library Compiler. Set the Namespace URL: to “http://mate.asfusion.com/” and Mainifest file: to manifest.xml

5. Save and build the project.

6. In your project that uses the library, select Properties -> Flex Build Path and click Add SWC and navigate to the MateLib project -> /bin folder and select the MateLib.swc file there.

Now you can use the standard way to include Mate components in your mxml, with:

xmlns:mate="http://mate.asfusion.com/"


And you’ll be able to view the source code by command-clicking (control-click on Windows I think) a Mate component. You can also select the text, e.g. Dispatcher, and use the F3 key. And… the classes will also come up and be navigable with the Open Type, command-T, navigator.

It turns out I was missing a config.ru as they were running straight Rails apps and Merb has to (gets to?) run as a Rack app. This page on Merbivore has all the info. I was being a bit dense about actually taking that first bit of code (# config.ru, etc) and putting it into a file at the root of my Merb app named config.ru. Once done Merb fired right up and it’s working swimmingly.

You’re probably already shaking your head at my naiveté. I’ve never been a heavy cell phone user — my plan before my company provided phone was a pay-as-you-go with Virgin, which suited my pretty well actually. I’m not a big talker, but I am a big emailer/web browser, etc., hence the iPhone lust.

So here’s some numbers I’m running through my head — the cost of my LG phone (a refurb, fwiw) was about $10 — they seem to be going for $80 used — I’d imagine AT&T would have gotten them for that at most. So say they funded $70 of my phone.

I have the cheapest phone plan at $40/month with a $10 media plan. So far:

AT&T -> Tom $70
Tom -> AT&T $50/mo * 3 = $150

Now, due to that $70 AT&T won’t provide me the upgrade price, but will generously allow me to upgrade for the open price of $399/$499 — although in order to do so I would still be required to extend my plan. Why? I don’t know.

What I would like to do:
AT&T -> Tom $200 (iPhone subsidy)
Tom -> AT&T $70/mo + $5/mo for text

I would even be happy to pay off that $70 debt I have for the LG subsidy. AT&T would be $25/month ahead, meaning they’d pay back the LG subsidy within a few months and have $300/year more of my cash indefinitely.

It’s just hard to not feel penalized as an existing customer and boy, do I regret not doing a pay-as-you-go plan for a while. At this point looking into alternatives like a cracked phone and switching providers would look good, if it was feasible. It just makes me want to leave AT&T. Here they have a chance to increase their revenue from me, but they manage to turn that around and make me an unhappy customer.

Sheesh.

I’d come across many references to adding a cross domain policy to a web server, but this is the first full explanation of the security sandbox that made sense to me. Following this, I added:

-use-network=false

To the custom compiler line in the project preferences and all is well. Here’s the link with a great explanation:

http://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/2008/06/the_security_sandbox_in_flex_b.html

Cairngen - for generating the basics for a Cairngorm Flex app:
http://code.google.com/p/cairngen/wiki/GettingStarted

Paul Williams - a series of blog posts on presentation tier design patterns with an eye to Flex:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/

dpUint - Flex unit testing framework with async testing support baked-in:
http://code.google.com/p/dpuint/wiki/Introduction

Prana - an IoC for Flex… useful with Cairngorm:
http://www.herrodius.com/blog/64

Steven Weber very good introduction to Cairngorm:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/cairngorm_pt1.html

Bruce Eckel articles on Artima:
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=212818
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=230610

And Getting Started with Flex at Adobe:
http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/Flex/Getting+Started

You can, however, use the Migration Assistant with a mounted volume — if you happen to be able to yank the drive from the old machine and pop it in the new one, you’re good to go. I couldn’t, but had an external Firewire/USB drive. I used SuperDuper! to make a backup of the G4 HD, copied that to the external drive and then migrated from that onto the MacBook.

It worked great, but beware: you have to register SuperDuper! to get the full copy capability. I had registered, but was using a demo copy on the G4 and kept getting only the Users folder copied (which isn’t enough to Migrate from). With the registered version it will actually make a bootable volume.

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I found a few sites with some fixes, though most were still focused on cleaning the data on display. I ended up taking Rick’s plugin and applying it at save time in the model object. I’m not sure it’s the cleanest — I’d almost certainly say there is a more elegant way to do this — but this was quick and works great.

It’s still basically designed to be used at output time:

<%= white_list @article.body %>

But instead I include the helper directly to a model and overwrite the attribute setters:


class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base

end


I tried setting up a before_filter and stepping through the param[] object, but my data was fairly simple and the above was dead easy.

But then I went to try ecto to post and kept getting a cryptic error:

XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only.

I went through checking username/password, checking .htaccess, etc. and was having no luck. I finally thought to check the Dreamhost wiki and found the answer: add this line to the top of your xmlrpc.php file at the base of your WordPress install:

$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA = file_get_contents(”php://input”);

All better. It’s apparently got to do with PHP 5.2.2.

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Besides the amazing 3 pixel gap bug I had to hunt down, I’ve spent a load of time ironing out IE6 issues.

Yesterday’s fun was a small amount of space above the headlines in some pages.
It only showed up in IE – Firefox was fine. After reducing the included files to no more than a word of plain text – and both included files were going into the same template – I took a look at the files themselves.

It turns out that all the misbehaving files were saved with Windows line endings (CRLF). I had to actually create new files and copy in the content to fix the issue – doing a Save As didn’t do it.

I’m not sure how these files came to be as all the development’s been done on a Mac using TextMate. But something to look for if you see inexplicable addition of whitespace in your pages in IE.

The issue was that each machine has to check out from the subversion server. When they went to do that, there was a message to accept the server or not. This would hang Capistrano.

To solve it, ssh into each of your web/app/db machines. From each, check out from the subversion server interactively and choose to permanently accept the svn server.