When you first get started with FDT3 from PowerFlasher http://fdt.powerflasher.com / http://fdt.powerflasher.de you will probably get the message…
Not enough memory to run FDT - add the following line to your eclipse.ini
-Xmx512m
On a windows machine the eclipse.ini is easy to find, and should be in the same folder as eclipse.exe, editing the file in notepad and altering the line
-Xmx256m
to the value above, should be straightforward. If you struggle with opening and saving files in notepad, sadly this blog post isn’t going to give you the file editing 101 that you sorely need.
If you are cool with the file change, restarting Eclipse and opening the FDT perspective will solve the issue.
On a Mac OS X machine things are a tiny bit trickier, the eclipse.ini file is tucked away inside the Eclipse application package, which you probably have stored in your Applications folder.
The quickest way to get at the eclipse.ini file is to Ctrl + Click the Eclipse application and select the *Show Package Contents* option from the menu.
If you then navigate to Contents/MacOS/ inside the package you’ll see eclipse.ini edit it with TextEdit or whatever you like to use to edit text files (TextMate http://macromates.com/, Eclipse, BBEdit?) and change the line
-Xmx256m
to read
-Xmx512m
Save eclipse.ini and close the finder window, restart Eclipse and you should be good to go.
This information is probably in the FDT forum, but I just figured this out five minutes ago and decided to post here instead.
March 3rd, 2008
I’ve released a new theme for Trac.
I like to encourage people to use Trac. If you create any kind of software it’s a fantastic tool for managing it’s build and maintenance. It also does a pretty good job of managing non-software projects too. If you haven’t used Trac or heard of it before I’d recommend you check it out.
Retrospectiva, is a new Ruby on Rails alternative to Trac, but currently it doesn’t measure up, specifically in terms of community support and plugins. Worth keeping an eye on it though.
June 12th, 2007
Adobe and Mozilla announced that Adobe will contribute source code from the latest Adobe® ActionScript™ Virtual Machine (AVM2), the standards-based scripting language engine in Adobe Flash® Player 9, to a new open source project known as Tamarin that will be hosted by the Mozilla Foundation.
AVM2, as currently shipping in Adobe Flash Player 9, was built from the ground up to work with the next generation of ActionScript. The new virtual machine is designed to deliver the performance and features to support the needs of rich Internet application developers. Source code from AVM2 being contributed to the Tamarin project implements ECMAScript 4th edition language features such as namespaces, classes, and optional strongly typed variables, and includes a Just In Time (JIT) compiler that translates ActionScript bytecode to native machine code for maximum execution speed.
The Tamarin project will result in an ECMAScript 4th edition engine that Mozilla will use within the next-generation of SpiderMonkey, the core JavaScript engine embedded in Firefox®, Mozilla’s free Web browser, and other products based on Mozilla technology. The code will continue to be used by Adobe as part of the ActionScript Virtual Machine.
Read more, visit the Tamarin FAQ
November 8th, 2006
After a slight panic during the week, all the Flickr tools hosted here on mentalaxis are now working fine again...
I'd managed to neglect checking the latest news about the Flickr API and missed the notice informing the developer community about an upcoming change of server for Flickr API calls.
I realise that many of you would have been a bit confused (angry?) when your badgr installs stopped working, and I'm very sorry I wasn't prepared for the update, if you're using a downloaded .SWF of badgr or badgr2.0 you can download the updated one from the link below.
Thanks again to everyone who's using badgr.
By the way, if you missed my recent announcement, badgr2.0 is now configured to work with FlashPlayer 8 and up, this is in preparation for the new image size updates which are being developed at the moment, there's a tech demo here.
August 26th, 2006
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