How to install Flex Builder 3 on Eclipse Galileo on Windows

Do you get an error when you try to install Flex Builder? Ignore it and carry on anyway. Edit the file: [eclipse]\links\com.adobe.flexbuilder.feature.core.link and just stick “path=” at the start so it looks something like this: path=C:/Program Files/Adobe/Flex Builder 3 Plug-in Thanks to greylurk for the original tip.

November 3, 2009 · 1 min · matt

Convention ÷ Configuration

I’ve long been sold on the concept of Convention Over Configuration. For me it’s a no-brainer, not only am I lazy, but when I am forced to make a decision about something technical, well, let’s just say the number of times I get it wrong is > 0. Recently I’ve been playing around with Maven, something I should have done years ago. Maven seems pretty sold on the convention idea too and so I just expected a simple project to work “out of the box”....

May 18, 2009 · 2 min · matt