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This week in the news

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Adobe MAX is going on right now in Los Angeles, California, and while I wasn’t one of the lucky few selected to attend from my company this year (not sour grapes, I went to Chicago in ‘07 and had a blast), I have had to follow it’s updates through Twitter.

Anyway, Monday morning they made an announcement that when Flash CS5 is released, you will be able to port Flash games, applications, etc. to native iPhone apps. For a Flash developer like me, this has been a long time coming and I have to say I’m excited.

Couple this with the news that Bell (my cellphone provider) has recently confirmed they will be selling the iPhone next month, and you have someone in me who I would title as an “eager-soon-to-be-iPhone-owner”.

Here is a video showing off some of the apps for the iPhone built in Flash. I’ve already seen people coming out saying that this is a terrible idea, but I think those people are wrong and any questions and concerns they may have will surely be considered and fixed by Adobe.

A solution to my problem…

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

Earlier this week I blogged about not being able to get Snow Leopard and Flex Builder 3 to work properly together and how it had become a problem for me…

Well unfortunately I couldn’t find a solution so I decided to give something drastic a try. I had already backed up my machine once, so I knew all my data would be preserved. What I did next was do a clean install of Leopard, followed by an install immediately afterward of Snow Leopard. I then installed Flex Builder 3, and low and behold it worked fine.

I have now transferred all my old data onto my machine and am still in the process of re-installing all my old applications, but for now, I am much happier. Something in my previous configuration must have been what was causing the problem of not letting Flex Builder 3 install on Snow Leopard, but I have no idea what that was so I will let it be and just be happy I can go back to doing my work!

Pain in my snow leopard…

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Today, I finally got my hands on my copy of Snow Leopard. I installed it immediately and low and behold, it sucks.

It pains me to say that about an Apple product, but I can no longer run Xtorrent (no biggie), but Flex Builder won’t run either. It can’t seem to find the Java SDK. I tried a fresh install of Flex Builder 3 and due to some install errors, I can’t even get the damn thing to try to start up to give me the error anymore.

I’ve been searching tirelessly for a solution through Google, and sadly, it looks like I am going to have to go ahead and make a copy of the data on my HD, and do a fresh “install and erase” on my Macbook. This isn’t the solution I wanted to have to do, but I need Flex so that I can work, and I need to be able to work ASAP.

I have to throw out a big “fail” for Apple here… and I am not happy about this at all…