I noticed some strange network behavior when loading custom plugins at runtime. They are requested twice. I had it in my mental backlog to investiagte, but a colleague beat me to it. This loading behavior is by design, apparently:
Dynamic plugins are now loaded twice. On the first load, they’re placed into a separate application domain in order to validate versioning. On the second load (which should pull the plugin from the cache, negating any additional network request), they’re placed into a child of the current application domain, so that class types are merged. Note that this means that a plugin will be initialized twice. For this reason, it’s recommended that any initialization logic be placed in the overridden PluginInfo.initializePlugin method, which is only invoked on the second load.
(from http://forums.adobe.com/thread/798166)
This is the kind of information that should be in big ass bold letters in the developer docs.
I just got a new MacBook Pro with iChat 5.0.3, and the AIM Blast chat groups don’t work. I can see the group in my buddy list, but all the options to send a new chat are greyed out.
I found 2 workarounds:
1. once you receive a chat from the group, the group is enabled for the remainder of the session.
2. to initiate a chat without waiting for someone to ping the group, go to File > New Chat and type the group name into the dialog, like “[groupname]” without the quotes. Kind of clunky, but it works.
I find myself wishing I could either turn off the plugin timeout during debugging, or make it shorter. Many times when I get an unhandled error in the Flash debug player, I am unable to dismiss the modal window and have to wait out the browser’s timeout or kill the process.
So, I found some helpful info here about plugin settings in FireFox. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins#Plugin_hang_detector
This plugin is a rudimentary implementation of StageVideo in an OSMF context. I will post an in-depth article soon (if my wife doesn’t give birth this week).
For weeks I have been wondering why the number pad on my aluminum Apple keyboard never works when booted into Windows. Turns out the “clear” key above the 7 acts like “Number Lock” for a normal keyboard. Well, I am a dumbass. Thanks go to this forum: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=402009
The Flex Builder properties palette only allows a “default application” class to be set in the default (a.k.a untyped) package. WTF.
So, you have to manually edit the .actionScriptProperties file to get the friggin built in compiler to work.
This was not fixed in FB 4 Beta.
I do not appreciate Adobe making architecture decisions for me. Boooo. Read more…
I have an ant task to generate a dozen swcs from a pile of source code. The compc task Adobe ships with Flex SDK blows up after about 7 compiles. Weak. Read more…
If you do a reinstall from a Time Machine backup, then Apache 2 will not startup. This is because the logs are not restored. You must recreate the log directory in Terminal:
$ cd /private/var/log
$ sudo mkdir apache2
