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Got BuzzWord on Linux ?

Submitted by Falken on

In order to login to the BuzzWord beta from a Linux machine, you'll need to use the user-agent switcher extension, and set your user agent to something like

Mozilla/5.0 (windows; U; windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050821 firefox/1.5

All the buttons I pressed seemed to work fine, though obviously it's even less supported than BuzzWord is normally.

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An alternative to Cairngorm for Flex projects ?

Submitted by Falken on

An alternative MVC framework for Flex application has just been released, called 'Model-Glue: Flex', after the popular ColdFusion framework.

I've only looked at it briefly, but it seems to have several advantages over Cairngorm such as less repetative boiler plate code and the ability to not use hard-typed Events. I can spell Modal-Glut: Flux better too :-)

I'll definitely be using it for the next 'little' application I do to see how it goes.

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Why ColdFusion 8 will not be out in July. Or in August. It's gonna be October

Submitted by Falken on

Over on his blog, Dale Fraser suggests two possible dates for the upcoming release of ColdFusion 8 - 1st July 2007 or the first week of August.

I'm still plumbing for 15th October '07 though.

Firstly that's when the biggest round of Adobe conferences ever are one - one in the US, one down in Spain and another in Japan.

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Handy Flex SDK debugger tip

Submitted by Falken on

Ever wondered why the fdb command line debugger appends a number to each result it gives back to you ?

Turns out, it's because you can use that to refer back to the result again, which saves retyping or cut'n'paste when your are drilling down.

Here's an example:

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Printing from Flex applications on 'nix

Submitted by Falken on

If you install the (debug) Flash player from the Flex 3 beta (flex-sdk-3-beta-1/runtimes/player/lnx/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz:/libflashplayer.so)
then you now get a print dialogue before the print actually happens !

Hurrah !

Didn't see that in the release notes, so it's a pleasant surprise. You still can't choose landscape (or not) modes though - it would be possible to set up two separate CUPS printers to get around that though.

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