LCDS 3, Tomcat and Basic Auth

I had to do a small sample for showing LCDS 3 and Tomcat 6 showing BASIC authentication working.   Here is the sample that is a Flash Builder 4 project, its very simple but shows it working: LCDS3Tomcat6BasicAuthentication I haven’t included the LCDS 3 JAR files, you just need to drop them into /WebContent/WEB-INF/lib.   [...]

Benchmarking Flex Compiler Performance

I got reminded of this by a question just today.   If you have what you think is slow complication in Flex/Flash Builder (or even plain old mxmlc) then you can use the compiler option -benchmark=true to get extra statistics out of it like the following:   Initial setup: 438msLoaded 11 SWCs: 6156msFiles: 614 Time: [...]

Where the HOSTS file lives on Windows 7 64 bit

This one has flummoxed me a little, due to the virtualisation techniques employed by Microsoft in getting 32 bit and 64 bit to play nicely together.   I couldn’t find the HOSTS file at the normal %Windir%System32driversetc path when I was navigating to in Windows Explorer, it just wasn’t there. Thankfully someone posted it on their own [...]

Troubleshooting the ColdFusion Server Manager

I had a case where the Server Manager was behaving erratically when lots of instances were added to it.   In troubleshooting I can see that each server logs in and out and some never keep their connection.  When I first did it, I got lots of issues with the server manager logging in and [...]

LCDS Load Test Tool and Flash Builder 4

Here is a walk through I recently did showing how to set up the LiveCycle Data Services Load Test Tool within Flash Builder 4.   This allows for development of the load test tool to extend it and fit more closely in with your own scenario.   Bear in mind it is a draft, if I [...]

Al Usher – Silverhum (John Talabot Mix)

This really is one of the greatest tunes of 2010 and is a must buy.   Get it on Ewan Pearson’s excellent mix album “We Are Proud of Our Choices” or on 12″ on Ewan’s Misericord Records: Al Usher – Silverhum (John Talabot Wilderness Mix) by John Talabot

Flash Builder – Build Numbers

For reference, here are the build numbers for checking: Flash Builder 4.0.0 = Build 272416 Flash Builder 4.0.1 = Build 277662 It’s worth noting that FB 4.0.1 Eclipse Plugin is reporting a build number of 272416, rather than the actual build number of 277662.   You can check the build number another way using: TODO  

Tunes: DFA Sampler At Bleep

This looks a great sampler album from the DFA stable, on offer at bleep.com right now.  Walter Jones is a joy to hear with his disco style. You can buy it at Bleep now