There are times when a good quote or anecdote can provide a distilled emotional quick fix to your mood. Michael Wulf gave me the pleasure of a Theodore Roosevelt quote at a time when I really needed it.
It is not the critic who counts; Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; Who strives valiantly;
Who errs, and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; But who does actually strive to do the deeds; Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; Who spends himself in a worthy cause;
Who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worse, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Today I upgraded this site to use the excellent iWPhone plugin and the latest version of WordPress. Now you can view the site in an optimised format on your iPhone. Enjoy!
Increase the amount of heap used by Eclipse/FlexBuilder by adding the following command line options:
-vmargs -Xms256M -Xmx512M
Shortcut Example: "C:\Program Files\eclipse\eclipse.exe" -vmargs -Xms256M -Xmx512M
Alternatively, you can update your eclipse.ini file.
More information can be found on Ryan Phelan’s site.
These examples have been tested on a Windows XP PC with 2GB RAM.
If you’ve attempted to use subclipse with a secure session, you may well have experienced the dreaded error message:
The system cannot find the file specified.
svn: Can't create tunnel: The system cannot find the file specified.
Typically, you experience it when using a url with the following structure:
svn+ssh://myfancy.svnserver.com/repo
Thankfully there is a very simple fix. All you need to do is More »
The community choice awards are an opportunity to vote for fantastic open source software. For me Zentrack has been such a useful tool that it certainly got my vote! Please click the award link if you want to vote too.
After a very quiet March, April has been extremely busy. I started working with a great design company HeavyLight and we have been producing some great initial results. As a team we have really harnessed the power of Illustrator and Flex to create some fabulous looking, high performance user interfaces. Hopefully I will be able to show off some of our work in the future just to demonstrate what can be done when you get great graphic designers together with a designer friendly developer.
Well the moment you’ve all been waiting for has come! You can find the podcast feed for the first episode of Cosmic Corridors on the new site, here.
Alternatively, you can search for “Cosmic Corridors” on iTunes.
Working with Eclipse is a great experience with lots of powerful features at your fingertips. Unfortunately, for a beginner it can be a little difficult to get used to and not immediately obvious how to do certain tasks. Setting up projects can be particularly challenging, especially if you have a lot of extra development requirements (for example, using Maven, Ant, Sping, etc.). Using the standard Adobe getting started guide gives you a gentle introduction to remotiing and messaging, but doesn’t give you details on how to set up a clean “bare bones” application.
This article lists the steps to create a bare bones BlazeDS server configuration using the turnkey solution. More »
Well the time is nearly here for the release of Matt and Eric’s Cosmic Corridors. If you can’t wait any longer to hear it, then please drop me a line via the contact page and I will add you to the pre-release audience list. If you are approved, I’ll send you a link.
This weekend we re-recorded some of the lines and refined the sound levels. Unfortunately the quest for perfection is causing some small delays, but rest assured the first version of the podcast was pretty darn good and had us chuckling in the right places. I hope you can hold your anticipation just a little longer as post production will probably take another week to complete. In the meantime, you can keep up with the antics of Master Miyoda by following him on Twitter here.