Ellis Giles

For Flex working with ColdFusion to fix an error like one of the following:

“Error #2048: Security sandbox violation”

OR

faultCode:Client.Error.MessageSend

faultString:’Send Failed’

faultDetail:’Channel.Security.Error error Error #2048: Security sandbox violation:

file:// …….. .swf cannot load data from http://localhost/flex2gateway

OR

Fault faultString=”Send failed”

faultCode=”Client.Error.MessageSend”

faultDetail=”Channel.Connect.Failed error NetConnection.Call.Failed: HTTP: Status 500: url: ‘http://…’”

Check your crossdomain.xml file.

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When attempting to access a URL via the URLLoader, eg:

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Rewrite all non-secure URLs aside from flex gateways for ColdFusion to a secure https server.  Here’s a sample Apache configuration:

<VirtualHost *:80>
RewriteEngine On
#  Don’t inherit the mod_rewrite options - don’t mess up flex data.

#  Allow all for the document root, but then will redirect all
#  non-flex based data (flex2gateway, crossdomain.xml, etc) to
#  https server which will do the allow/deny based on logic.
DocumentRoot “C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs”
<Directory “C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs”>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>

Alias /favicon.ico /icons/favicon.ico
Alias /icons /icons

# Redirect all non-flex2gateway related http traffic to https.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(/crossdomain.xml)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(^/flex2gateway|^/flashservices|^/CFIDE)($|/)
RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
</VirtualHost>

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Meredith says Da-Da!

I’ve been practicing with her for awhile.  She could mimic hello and then I got her to mimic Da-Da.  She’s been practicing and I believe can associate the word with me!

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Sprint HTC EVO 4G :

Sprint Samsung Epic 4G:

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Since \n doesn’t work, you have to specify the newline code in an escaped manner.

<mx:TextArea text=”Saving. Please wait.” textAlign=”center” />

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For prepared statements in PHP / mySQL check out:

http://mattbango.com/notebook/web-development/prepared-statements-in-php-and-mysqli/

Combine that with:

<?php
class MySqlDriver {
private $_Link;

public function __construct( <…> ) {
$this->_Link = mysql_connect( <…> );
}

// this will be called automatically at the end of scope
public function __destruct() {
mysql_close( $this->_Link );
}
}

$_gLink = new MySqlDriver( <…> );
// and you don’t need to close the link manually
?>

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Here’s the best reference I could find on vendor branching.

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s05.html

The main idea is if you are updating or modifying another group’s source project and you want your updates to be applied to updates from the group’s next release.  This is called vendor branching.  Basically, create a vendor repository and import the vendor’s code to that repository.  For each release from the vendor, tag the code in that repository.  Then import the diffs from one tag to another applied to your main trunk which contains the features you added.

Also, check out snv_load_dirs.pl for loading directories as it will better capture files that are moved as part of an upgrade.  Eg. you might modify file A1 from a vendor, then the vendor moves it to a new directory.  You will still want your modifications applied to the same upgraded file in the new location.  Simply importing a tree into an svn vendor branch without this function might not pick up that file A1 was moved.

$ svn copy http://svn.example.com/repos/vendor/libcomplex/current \ http://svn.example.com/repos/vendor/libcomplex/1.0 \ -m ‘tagging libcomplex-1.0′

$ svn copy http://svn.example.com/repos/vendor/libcomplex/1.0 \ http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/libcomplex \ -m ‘bringing libcomplex-1.0 into the main branch’ …

Add your features, fixes, etc.  Then vendor releases a new release…

$ cd working-copies/calc $ svn merge http://svn.example.com/repos/vendor/libcomplex/1.0 \ http://svn.example.com/repos/vendor/libcomplex/current \ libcomplex

… # resolve all the conflicts between their changes and our changes

$ svn commit -m ‘merging libcomplex-1.1 into the main branch’

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I got this error when in Flex Builder / Eclipse and using SVN.

I had done a commit, then SVN thought it needed to commit the base directory which had no revisions.  I committed it, then came back and added log comment later on.  When I went to view the revision tree, SVN gave the message “Error while reading log messages from file.”  I tried everything from restarting eclipse, checking out a new copy of the project, to committing a new revision.  But, it turns out you just need to refresh the SVN tree.

First, make sure you have the SVN Repository view open.  Window->Other Views->SVN->SVN Repositories

Then click on the SVN Repositories tab, right click your repository having the problem and clear the revision graph cache.  Right click then choose “Clear revision graph cache”

Next Right click and choose “Build/Update revision graph cache”

Then select your project tree, eg myProject/trunk, right click and choose “Show Revision Graph” and it’ll work.

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If you just had a commit error on the repository or just committed something by accident, an easy way to remove the revision from the repository is to reload the repository up until the previous revision.  Say the latest commit 603 just had an error or mistake.

First backup the repository up until the previous revision:

svnadmin dump -r1:602 repositoryName > repositoryName.dump

Next, you’ll need to import the dump into a new repository.  You can either delete the old and create one of the same name or create a new name.

svnadmin create repositoryName

svnadmin load repositoryName < repositoryName.dump

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