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Archive for December, 2009

Eclipse-free Java & Flex: Deploying and Running in Tomcat

Earlier, I (briefly) described my long-running battle with Eclipse, which Eclipse finally won by dropping the proverbial a-bomb and refusing to start. If you want to read that first, be my guest. Here, I describe the next step in setting up my current environment. Part of the deal with escaping from Eclipse is that I [...]

Eclipse-free Java & Flex: MXML/Actionscript in MacVim

At work, I’ve been doing Flex & Java work pretty much exclusively for a good long while now, and the standard toolchain for that centers around Eclipse; that’s what all of us use at work. But Eclipse is slow as molasses and uses a ton of memory … and tends to break down if you’re [...]