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From my humble opinion, InfoQ is one of best resources for developers nowadays. You can find lot of IT related stuff - interviews, articles, presentations slides and videos. And today I would like to talk about videos from InfoQ in particular. Is always good to have offline version to watch it during long commute, for instance. Unfortunately, InfoQ administration for some reasons not allow to download videos. However, I found very elegant solution how to do that. I did it on my MacOS X with Safari, probably it will work with Safari for Windows as well. ...

Right after vacation I talked on New York Flex User group regarding open source project for Flex/Java developers - Clear Toolkit. Here are the slides of my presentation. Feel free to comment!

Here are the small notes from Adobe MAX conference: Flash is still here. Adobe creates tools for seamless transition b/w Flash and HTML5 (Adobe Edge) Touch apps is next big thing. Mobile apps developed with Flash/Flex/Air and packaged to native. Upcomming changes in Flash runtime- workers - actionScript threads Upcomming changes in AIR platform - native extensions Creative Cloud - another big thing was announced. Sharing and collaboration b/w creative suite applications and new touch app.

Last weekend spend in setup of environment for eclipse plug-in development. I have task to fix and update one plugin. This is add-on to Flash Builder. But before adding something, it’s good to run that plugin before. My environment is Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Eclipse 3.6 (32bit because FB not supported 64bit version of Eclipse) and Flash Builder 4.5. But I faced with odd exception !SESSION 2011-07-25 23:59:39.350 ----------------------------------------------- eclipse.buildId=M20110210-1200 java.version=1.6.0_26 java.vendor=Apple Inc. BootLoader constants: OS=macosx, ARCH=x86, WS=cocoa, NL=en_US Framework arguments: -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product Command-line arguments: -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product -data /Users/apple/Workspaces/work/../runtime-EclipseApplication -dev file:/Users/apple/Workspaces/work/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.pde.core/Eclipse Application/dev.properties -os macosx -ws cocoa -arch x86 -consoleLog !ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2011-07-25 23:59:57.129 !MESSAGE Application error !STACK 1 java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Cannot load 32-bit SWT libraries on 64-bit JVM at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:197) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:174) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.C.(C.java:21) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.cocoa.NSThread.isMainThread(NSThread.java:33) at org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Device.(Device.java:116) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.(Display.java:671) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.(Display.java:662) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createDisplay(Workbench.java:708) at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createDisplay(PlatformUI.java:161) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.createDisplay(IDEApplication.java:145) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:88) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:369) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:620) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:575) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1408) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1384) An error has occurred. See the log file /Users/apple/Workspaces/runtime-EclipseApplication/.metadata/.log. Mac OS X shipped with 2 versions of JVM - 32 bit and 64 bit accordingly. So, First I tried to change order of JVM preference from /Application/Utilities/Java Preferences but it didn’t work. ...

Last month I participated in JAXConf conference on San Jose, CA. There was many talks related to agile development and code quality stuff. And after that event I started looking to Gradle - next generation build tool. Couple weeks later I found a Building and Testing with Gradle written by git evangelists Tim Berglundand ( @tlberglund) and Matthew McCullough (@matthewmccull). Book very focused and easy to read. I got my dirty cheap ebook version on thursday night, read this book during my commute to work and now come up with this review. [][7] Looking at the [table of contents][8], you can see the book covers big part of questions. What this book is about: ...