The Yahoo! Flex Skin is a lovely minimalist skin by the good folks on Yahoo!'s Flash team. However, it has an issue that you need to work around if you want to load it in dynamically at runtime. It's a simple thing, but I thought I'd document it here in hopes that it will help save someone else a few minutes of confusion.

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I'm happy to announce that there's quite an important update to Gaebar that brings with it some essential bug fixes and should help shave quite a bit of time off of your restores.

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Update: Beta 2 Released! See the Gaebar Beta 2 announcement.

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The cool thing about user submitted content is that you can't always predict what you're going to get. Our speakers at the Singularity Web Conference, for example, submit and update their own bios and session descriptions on the site. Yesterday, I noticed that Dr. Woohoo had put up an image of one of his awesome generative artworks in his session description.

Of course, since I hadn't considered images in session descriptions, this had the side-effect of breaking the layout of the sessions page.

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This is a quick screencast to show you the data export solution I've created for Google App Engine that lets you backup your application's datastore and restore it either locally on your development machine or on the same Google App Engine application on the deployment environment or on a different Google App Engine application (which you can use as a staging environment).

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