I’m so going to blog this!

I don’t really have time to write a full post today but I know I need to start writing again so here’s the quick run down of the current awesome:

• Since I came back from vacation, I’ve (along with support from my rad teammates) been socially hacking things up over at Comcast Interactive Media.  Breaking down silo walls and getting people to talk to each other.  For two projects in a row I’ve got all the team members from product, QA, IA, design and development (~12 person team) sitting at the same table together.  The. same. table.  For the entire sprint. For those of you in big corporations, you understand how hard this is to do.  And the thing is… it’s working!  People love it.  Turns out sometimes you just have to get everyone to show up in the same place and a whole lot of awesome happens.
• Craziness going on in the world of automated testing at CIM.  ScrewUnit, RSpec, Webrat & Cucumber and a big ol’ Java web project. Hellz yes. Oh yeah, and it’s behavior-driven all the way for me from now on.  I pretty much won’t work without automated acceptance tests anymore.
• Project RocketSauce is dead.  RocketSauce was the codename for the wifi finding project I started a while back right after BarCamp.  It was an OK idea, but too many things got in it’s way.  My own inaction being one of the biggest.  There’s a post here on lessons learned, but that’ll have to come later.
• A project did come out of the RSS reader discussion.  Can’t talk too much about the details for the moment, but I’m working with the incredibly talented team over at IndyHall Labs.  Plenty of blog-worthy stuff here, too.  I know, you’re trembling in anticipation.
• If you’re in Philadelphia, check out the culinary goodness going on with the ChefAMe guys. Announcements to follow soon about some bar- and booze-focused events!
• Just started on another great side project revolving around beer & Rails.  Mmmm, beer. Mmmm, Rails.
• Philly Supper Club is back up and running! This Wednesday we’ll be at Chifa. Check us out at www.phillysupperclub.com and follow what’s going down on Twitter: @phlsupperclub
• I’m working with the rest of the crew from RefreshPhilly to see if we can’t get a contest going similar to Apps for Democracy or Apps for America for Philadelphia.  Come out to our May 4th meeting and talk to me if you’re interested. Also, come out and meet our special guest Allan Frank (@alzo999), the CIO of Philadelphia!

Whew.  Ok.  I’m going to go rest now.

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Hey all! I know it’s been a long while since the last update, but I’ve got a lot of exciting things going on and I want to share all the excitement. New projects, new fail stories, and lots of ideas!

Check back soon for more awesome!

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Actually I just want to see what this does with a YouTube Video. Plus I like ‘Good Eats’ and coffee.

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Quick Fix:
If you have an error reading “Unable to resolve a class for ResourceBundle: logging.” you need to add the local/en_US/framework_rb.swc library to your ActionScript project.

The longer version:

So my team and I were interested in using the built-in flex logging framework provided for Adobe for a new internal logging app. We started looking into it and after determining that it wouldn’t add any unnecessary weight to our flex projects we decided to go with it.

However, we wanted to standardize on a logging framework that would also work for low-weight ActionScript 3 projects. So I figured, “well, they’re just classes, I’ll add the libraries and start using them.” So I went into my project properties and added the framework.swc library and my “Definition mx.logging:Log could not be found” error went away.

Except I got this great new error “Unable to resolve a class for ResourceBundle: logging.” . . . huh?

After looking around I found a post on moock.org: How to use Tween in an ActionScript Project (Flex Builder 2). His specific example was for using the Tween class in a normally Flex-less project. However, it seems to be the fix for other cases where you want to use Flex components/classes in an AS2 project.

The problem is that the framework_rb.swc contains the IResourceManager and ResourceManager classes that the Log class references as well as the logging.properties file.

I’m not sure what this means for localization, though, since the framework_rb.swc is inside the locale/en_US directory. My work doesn’t ever involve localization so I haven’t really looked into any further. Anybody have any thoughts on that?

Also, just as a note, the “100kb of dependant code” Moock references is specific to his use of Tween and its dependance on UIComponent. It does not mean that you get the 100kb just for touching the Flex libraries.

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