Getting Cairngen to work with Eclipse and Tiger

Thanks to Darren who added some notes on it, there may be hope yet! (I copy things things here to my blog in case the original sources disappear as many others have done… )
And Darren, yes it did help very much!
Eric Feminella: Solutions Architect, Rich Internet Applications » Blog Archive » Cairngen 2.1 [...]

Starting Eclipse with an alternate VM

So I was trying out the Soylatte Java VM to get it to work with Eclipse so I could use Cairngen on a 10.4 Mac. I got an error after working with some Eclipse configurations so that Eclipse started with errors and didn’t allow much work. However starting from the command line (/Applications/eclipse/eclipse) got me [...]

Java 6 Port for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 (Intel)

What ho! Hey I just complained about no Java 6 for the Mac and then this pops up! Now will it work for what I am trying to do with Cairngen?!
SoyLatte – Port of BSD Java
SoyLatte is a functional, X11-based port of the FreeBSD Java 1.6 patchset to Mac OS X Intel machines. [...]

Cairngen, Eclipse and “Unable to load a script engine manager”

I need to add a bunch of functionality and I really want to automate the file creation so I just started trying out Cairngen. I got this “unable to load a script engine manager” error. Fortunately I had just checked my Java VM version (default Mac OS 1.5) and according to this post I need [...]

Quicksilver tip: Copying a folder path to the clipboard

I’m sure this is out there somewhere, but for me it’ll be right here. Plus it’s a multi step process which I didn’t actually expect. It’s not complicated but it’s longer than I thought. Maybe there is an easier way?
I wanted to copy the path of a source folder into Eclipse for [...]

Cairngen moving to Google Code

I use Cairngorm. It’s main strength is making sure you put code where it should go. It goes by the MVC mantra which, in and of itself, is really good. The problem? To add one new capability, you sometimes have to add… I forget how many new class files:
“Hmm… need a button here to do [...]

Speed reading…

I really need to learn how to speed read. There is just TOO MUCH to read! Er… too much I want to read.

Flex Builder on Linux?!

This stuff just doesn’t stop! Woohoo! This is good though… I wonder if the license will be cross platform so current users can move to Linux…
Ted On Flex: Hello AIR/Flex Builder on Linux
This morning we launched the Alpha release of AIR for Linux and an updated Flex Builder for development on Linux. It [...]

PyAMF flying high

More python/Flex goodness in the works in the future perhaps? I really like Python… learning all the time with my web2py friends. I’d love to be able to combine this with Flex. Looks like it’s getting easier and easier. Now to combine this with Orbited…
Ted On Flex: The AMF Revolution
The growth [...]

Create a PDF via Share’s API

And so now, you can also create PDFs via their API? I’ll have to look into that later…
Collaborative Methods
SHARE was updated late last week – see here.
In addition to some really cool new features (e.g. full screen embedded
document), you can now convert an uploaded document into a PDF!
Naturally with every new feature we [...]

Free online document collaboration?

Adobe Labs – SHARE

With Share you can:

Convert 5 documents to Adobe PDF.
Send documents without email attachments.
Access your documents from anywhere.
View all the documents you have shared or received in one place.
Post a link to your document on a wiki or blog.
Embed a Flash® preview of your document on any website.
Limit access to a [...]

Yahoo maps released an AS3 version!

There once was an app that wanted a map, but alas there was no map for the app. The app was content to use AS2, but it was too slow, too slow it was. Then there was a hack, of modest maps. It was not quite released for use but it was there nonetheless so [...]

Cairngorm and views responding to server side events

I’ll have to dig up the links for this as a reference. But I started an app in Flex. I wanted a good framework to work with to help me organize the code, get some “best practices”, etc. I chose the then standard Cairngorm currently hosted at Adobe. Everything was happening client side so all [...]

Quicksilver – get the item selected in Finder

I hadn’t used this shortcut much so I kept forgetting it. This page has many such reminders. The shortcut is cmd+G
QuickSilver Keyboard Shortcuts
Grab file – puts current selection from Finder/Path Finder as active item in QS

Running postgresql createdb from batch without password prompt

As noted in this post, you need to change a line in pg_hba.conf to “trust” instead of “md5″ (no quotes) to be able to batch create tables. Note this is only for testing purposes and not recommended for production. The only reason is because I am running some benchmarks for web2py. I want to be [...]

Who wouldn’t like an EMPTY INBOX?!

More goodness from the 43 Folders folks…
43 Folders Series: Inbox Zero | 43 Folders
The original 43 Folders
series looking at the skills, tools, and attitude needed to empty your
email inbox — and then keep it that way. Don’t miss the free video of Merlin’s Inbox Zero presentation.

Getting things done…

43 Folders has tons of neat productivity stuff. This is one thing I actually have to go through still. The concept is cool and (apparently) useful.
Getting started with “Getting Things Done” | 43 Folders
I’ll be talking a lot here in coming weeks about Getting Things Done,
a book by David Allen whose apt subtitle [...]

Get your windows Outlook to your Mac

A friend asked about doing this and this is one clean non-techie way that is cheap and may perhaps work. The reference link is pretty old though so perhaps there is something newer.
Little Machines
O2M may be the fastest way to move your Windows® Outlook® email, contacts, and calendar appointments from your PC to [...]

Eclipse performing slow on a windows box

I have Eclipse on a windows box that is performing VERY slowly… I forgot that I haven’t changed the memory settings on that. This is a little info on it.
zeekoxBlog: speed up Eclipse under linux
1. use official java VM2. add/modify params in eclipse.ini:-Xms1024m-Xmx1024m-XX:PermSize=256m-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
Some of that comes from here:
EclipseZone – Tuning Eclipse Performance and [...]

Exporting a web2py table in XML

I recently wrote about exporting a Django database to xml. As a courtesy, Massimo, creator of web2py, put together a great little example for web2py
exporting in XML – web2py Web Framework | Google Groups

def export_xml(rows):
idx=range(len(rows.colnames))
colnames=[item.replace('.','_') for item in rows.colnames]
records=[]
[...]

We saw 3 whales and hundreds of dolphins!

Whale watching… something I have only seen on TV. Today it was live and in living color! Very, very cool. Highly recommended. We saw 3 whales and several hundred (!!!) porpoises. What a blast! Have to wait to see if any pics come out though.
Orange County Whale Watching Cruises, Dana Point, California (CA) [...]

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Using an item renderer with a tree control

I’m going to need this in a few days…
Example: Using an item renderer with a Tree control — Flex 2.01

For the Tree control, you use the itemRenderer
property to specify a single renderer for all nodes of the tree. If you
define a custom item renderer, you are responsible for handling the
display of the entire [...]

web2py new website

Web2py is humming along and just got a redesigned front page. Nice, clean, and accessible. Gotta love the “complex” tutorial. Fits in a page!
web2py Enterprise Web Framework

A taste of web2py

Consider the following complete application which consists a model (which describes the data representation): db.py

1.2.

db=SQLDB(’sqlite://images.db’)db.define_table(‘image’,SQLField(‘file’,'upload’))

a controller (which describes the application logic and [...]

Export Django database to xml

Looking at this helps me understand more of what is going on internally with Django’s models. Using web2py is a bit more intuitive for getting some of this info so it’s probably not too hard to port the concept over… for a future exercise.
/home/siddhi: Export django database to an xml file
Export django database [...]