Posting reasonable opinions under unreasonable titles
Adobe Flex not ready for Enterprise applications – yup folks, that’s right. Apparently because Flex can’t render HTML and has spotty context menu support, it’s not ready.
These days when recruiters and employers actually do bother to check on private blogs, these kind of posts could turn out to be career limiting.
The actual issues mentioned are valid, but the conclusion drawn just sounds like whining in my opinion. It’s a good practice to evaluate potential platforms and check if you are able to implement core requirements on said platforms. It isn’t like Flex’s inability to render HTML was a big secret and if your product calls for that, you know what – don’t use Flex. It’s that simple.
Bash script to install Gems
I looked all over and couldn’t find a bash script which could check and if missing install a list of gems. I had to hack my own up:
GEMS=( `cat gems.txt` ) # gems.txt has one gem name per line
for gem in "${GEMS[@]}"; do
found=`gem list $gem | grep -i $gem`
if [ "$found" != "" ]; then
parts=( $found )
echo "Found ${parts[0]} ${parts[1]}"
continue
fi
echo "---------------------------"
echo "Installing $gem"
sudo gem install $gem -y
echo "---------------------------"
done
Aptana ‘org.mozilla.rhino’ error while installing RadRails
If you are installing RadRails on Aptana and getting ‘org.mozilla.rhino’ error, you are probably upgrading your old installation. Searching for all files related to Aptana and deleting them before installing new version should fix the problem.
After uninstalling older version of Aptana, I had over 110MB left in the ‘Programs Files/Aptana’ folder. I’m not sure where the files are kept on a *nix platform or OSX though.
No posts until August
I’m getting married in a couple of hours and then off to Europe 
So I will probably not be posting anything until I get back first week of August.
Linotype FontExplorer X and xpcom.dll
Linotype FontExplorer X is my recent discovery and I find it to be the best font management tool out there. All of the sudden I started getting “xpcom.dll” error on startup. Googling didn’t turn up anything so I spent some time and narrowed down the problem.
The application must be started from its folder, ie C:\Program Files\Linotype FontExplorer X. It looks that the menu shortcut is created without “Start in” filled in. All you have to do is to find the shortcut in the start menu, right click and set “Start in” value. After that it should work.
