http://tom.wilcoxen.org Tom Wilcoxen's web development notes. Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:20:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been using Mate for some time and liking it very much. I wanted to be able to use Flex Builder's ability to navigate to and view the source of included types. With only having the downloaded .swc file in my /libs directory that wasn't possible. It took me some ... http://tom.wilcoxen.org/2008/09/11/flex-builder-3-swc-libraries-and-linked-source/ I just got Merb running under Phusion Passenger on my OS X Leopard MacBook and it all went well but with a couple gotchas. I looked at Manfred's and TopFunky's notes, but I couldn't get Merb to kick in. It turns out I was missing a config.ru as they were running ... http://tom.wilcoxen.org/2008/07/21/merb-with-phusion-passenger/ In April I changed jobs, moving from a position with a company-supplied phone to one without. I decided to go with AT&T as I wanted to make the plunge and get an iPhone. However, being a loooong time Apple customer (first Mac: 1984) I was aware that the new version ... http://tom.wilcoxen.org/2008/07/11/twice-as-fast-half-the-price-or-not/ I've been trying to load a local file with some dummy data and hitting a security warning. I was running out of FlexBuilder 3 and trying to read a local file, so wasn't sure why I was getting a security error. I'd come across many references to adding a cross domain ... http://tom.wilcoxen.org/2008/07/01/flexbuilder-3-security-sandbox-explained/ It looks like I'll be doing Flex RIA development, which I'm really looking forward to. Right now I need to tuck away a few links for further study... 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 ... http://tom.wilcoxen.org/2008/06/24/flex-time/ Perhaps this is an edge case, but recently I wanted to migrate my wife's account from a G4 Yikes (1st generation G4 desktop machine) to a MacBook. It turns out that the G4 Yikes (aka, non-AGP graphics G4) is the only G4 (or, I believe G3) with built-in Firewire that ... http://tom.wilcoxen.org/2007/06/26/migrating-user-accounts-wo-firewire-target-disk/ I had all of our data being html-escaped as it was rendered to the page, but the problem is that other systems interact with ours -- we send data to web analytics systems and to SalesForce.com. In that case you can't count on escaping entities on display -- you need ... http://tom.wilcoxen.org/2007/06/08/preventing-xss-from-entering-your-database/ Ok, this took me far too long to track down. I got my blog set up nice and quick like using Dreamhost one-click installs - so far so good. 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 ... http://tom.wilcoxen.org/2007/05/11/ecto-and-wordpress-on-dreamhost/ Lately I’ve been doing a lot more html/css than I’ve done for several years. It’s good to be back in it, and it’s somewhat of a relief to be targeting IE6 and better. By better of course I mean Firefox. Besides the amazing 3 pixel gap bug I had to hunt ... http://tom.wilcoxen.org/2006/09/21/windows-crlf-ie-whitespace-bug/ I finally got Capistrano running. The last hurdle was a funky one having to do with subversion. Our deployment environment is 2 web/application servers and one db server. We have another machine that hosts our subversion repository. The issue was that each machine has to check out from the subversion ... http://tom.wilcoxen.org/2006/08/27/capistrano-subversion-permissions-issue/