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 »
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 »
Flash Player 10 has been out for a while now, so I decided to test the claims that Google and other search engines can now effectively crawl the Text inside a SWF. Historically, I found that a SWF would be identified but would not be displayed correctly in the search results. This has now been solved. More »
Anyone who has used Firebug for developing web pages knows how good it is. Lately I find myself using it for checking style cascades and trying out certain styles “on the fly”. Below are a list of links to Firebug and some of the equivalent tools for other browsers:
- Firefox: Firebug
- Safari: Web Inspector
- Opera: Opera Developer Tools
- Internet Explorer: Microsoft Developer Toolbar
Google Chrome has developer tools built into it, which is nice 
Today I decided to play around with Papervision3D with some reasonably successful results. You can see the fruit of today’s work in the heading, where it will probably live until I do something funky with the rest of the site. If you move the mouse around on the movie you will notice that the cube changes behaviour a little. Try finding the “sweet spot” if you get bored… it will make the cube stop rotating. I may blog some more on Papervision3D in the future as it is a very neat framework once you get used to it.
If you are reading this post from an old archive, the SWF might have changed so you can see the original here.
You can find the source code here.
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Part 1 – Creating a Shadow Site
Creating a beautiful web 2.0 website in Flash/Flex is very satisfying. I really enjoy the development time savings of Flex versus that of general HTML/javascript solutions and the crispness of the interfaces created. The pleasure of Flex development is something I can talk about for hours and I have even been known to evangelise in my local bar on a Friday night.
It’s not all roses though, as Flex solutions do come with one major flaw; They are not search engine friendly (for a number of reasons). Part 1 of this article explores a solution using a “Shadow Site“, which is a term I surfed across recently and feel it accurately describes the subject. More »