The latest version of FLP Maker is FLP Maker BETA. For more information on FLP Maker, including installation instructions, please see the FLP Maker introductory post. FLP Maker is released under the MIT Open Source license.

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Ever had to manually go through a large project and delete all the CVS folders in it because you didn't export it and the module no longer exists in CVS? If all you have is a workspace copy and you want to add it back to CVS (perhaps a different CVS server), then you can either painstakingly delete the CVS folders manually or you can buy me a beer as thanks for this little nugget:

FOR /r /d %D in (CVS*) do @rmdir /q /s "%D"

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There was a post on Flashcoders today by Craig Earls, wherein he states "I am having a very difficult time getting remoting to work in an AS 2.0 class."

Brian LeRoux responded that "it's because MM doesn't yet support ActionScript 2 for
Remoting. Only ActionScript 1 . . . You can download either Joey Lotts' [AS2] port of AS1 Remoting or Justin Watkins'. I've used both and both work just fine."

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Server Logistics has a great Complete MySQL distribution for OS X (currently with MySQL version 4.0.15). It includes the MySQL installer package along with a MySQL System Preferences Pane that allows quick startup/shut-down of MySQL through System Preferences. It also comes with ODBC and JDBC drivers.

Nik Khilnani just informed me that the RSS feed being generated by the cafelog b2 blog engine that powers the site was incorrectly setting the lastBuildDate of the RSS to the time of request of the RSS document. Although deceptively named, the lastBuildDate tag should, according to the RSS 2.0 reference, display " The last time the content of the channel changed. [e.g.] Sat, 07 Sep 2002 09:42:31 GMT".

The modification to b2 to get this to work was very simple:

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