Monthly Archives: February 2008

Strict typing as a first line of defence

By Cliff | Published: February 5, 2008

I’m currently in the final stages of a refactor and I thought I’d just share this little tidbit on why strict typing is a good thing in AS3, especially when working in an agile environment where things can change quickly as requirements unfold and mutate.

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Building the MacPorts MySQL gem on OS X

By Cliff | Published: February 3, 2008

I’ve been running with the Rails MySQL adapter for a while now after failing to build the native MySQL gem under Leopard. The problem, I thought, was that I’m using the
Macports MySQL, and it turns out I was right. If you attempt to build the MySQL gem and you get an error like [...]

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