Change project from Flex to AIR

When you started with a Flex project for the browser and you decide to switch to AIR or vice versa you have to change the Flex Builder project settings.

In the application MXML you have to switch the root node from Application to WindowedApplication

In the .actionScriptProperties you have to change useApolloConfig=”true/false”.

For AIR projects the .project file needs the apollonature meaning <nature>com.adobe.flexbuilder.apollo.apollonature</nature> as the first of the three natures (before flexnature and actionscriptnature). Sometimes I had a refresh problem when I opened the project settings (every entry showed up twice) after editing these files so better close and re-open the project, re-build the project and the switch should be done.

Pimp your Flex Builder

InsideRIA posted an article about Flex Builder Enhancements. I am already using the TODO/FIXME Plugin by Dirk Eismann for a long time now which works really cool.

I did not know the Snippets plugin which I now also tried out. The usability is not that straight forward but it also does the job.

If you like to import my snippets.xml which includes a for loop and a bindable getter/setter.

RDT - Ruby meets Eclipse

There is an Eclipse Plugin for Ruby called RDT.
I found a very good article on this via slashdot: Using the Ruby Development Tools plug-in for Eclipse