Desktopless, headless, AIR on Linux Redhat

AIR installed fine on my RedHat RHEL 5.3 box, with the added bonus of it being a AMD-64 sytem, so a few moments of panic, but I was able to yum in the Gtk *.so. In the Gnome it’s easy enough from the desktop AdobeAIRInstaller.bin, which installs
Binaries to /opt/Adobe AIR/

This is where a little fun began, it turns out that you the application will not run and I get the following error: (./YourAIRApplication:14779): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

One way around this is to us Xvfb, a virtual frame buffer. For RedHat I was able to download the rpm and install. The bonus here is that xvfb-run is actually a script. Running the final command below works.

rpm -Uvh XFree86-Xvfb-3.3.2.3-25.i386.rpm
xvfb-run.sh
cd /opt/YourAIRApplication/bin
xvfb-run.sh ./YourAIRApplication

Attempting to run on a copied Adobe Air install: I couldn’t get Adobe Air to run from just the binaries, so I copied
/opt/Adobe\ Air to a clean box

I attempted to run ./opt/YourAIRApplication/bin/YourAIRApplication

And I get:
Error loading the runtime (libadobecertstore.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or

Time to stop and go write some Flex code!

width="100%" height="100%">

/**
* bubbles the rollout event up to the lauching button
*/
private function onRollOut(event : MouseEvent) : void
{
this.dispatchEvent(event);
}
]]>

width="30" height="110"
horizontalScrollPolicy="off" verticalScrollPolicy="off"
backgroundColor="#626262"
rollOut="onRollOut(event)"
>
styleName="progressBar"
borderColor="#BDBDBD"
showTrackHighlight="true"
themeColor="#AEDF4F"
y="5"
/>

Flex RSS/Atom Reader with thumbnails

I didn't see any samples of RSS readers with thumbnails, so I wrote a quick Atom reader. Ping me if you'd like the source. Future project for me is to bypass the proxy.php by making a javascript call and avoid the cross domain.

AT&T Blue SIM Card - unlocking a nokia phone

Folks, I found out today that go forward, AT&T's plan to support hardware for the blue sim card phones is to unlock goPhones. All you need to do is to call the legacy blue plan customer service. No need to lie, no need to look for unlock codes on the web.