ECOBOT is released!

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:25:00 -0400

We have just released a public beta of a new personal carbon tracking application called ECOBOT. ECOBOT is an open source Adobe Air application, developed by TAXI Canada and One Pixel Off. To find out more about it, and to get a copy visit: ecobot.taxi.ca

Eclipse 3.4.1 Ganymede, MXUnit, Flexbuilder 3 on MacOSX

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:36:00 -0400

After a few minutes of thrashing with a incompatibility issue that was giving me trouble installing MXUnit in Eclipse 3.4.1 I found a work around I thought other people might benefit from. First the back story. I had Eclipse 3.3 running happily on my Mac with Flex Builder, CFEclipse, SVEclipse, etc... Then I tried to install MXUnit, and I kept running into a incompatibility issue. Oh well I thought, I guess it's an excuse to upgrade to a newer version of Eclipse. So I downloaded Eclipse 3.4.1 Ganymede and proceed to install all my usual plugins including Flexbuilder (I kept a copy of by 3.3 install just in case though). When I tried to install MXUnit though it again complained about an incompatibility. It looked something like this: Cannot complete the request. See the details. Cannot find a solution where both Match[requiredCapability: org.eclipse.equinox.p2.iu/org.eclipse.equinox.preferences/[3.2.201.R34x_v20080709,3.2.201.R34x_v20080709]] and Match[requiredCapability: org.eclipse.equinox.p2.iu/org.eclipse.equinox.preferences/[3.2.200.v20080421-2006,3.2.200.v20080421-2006]] can be satisfied. I did find something on Google similar to this: http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=63187 But the solution in that thread was to manually install a pre-release version of equinox which I didn't really feel like messing with. I looked at the incompatibility message a little closer (I didn't include the whole thing above because it was sooooo loooong) and saw it mentioned Flex Builder which I had already installed successfully. It seemed to suggest that Flex Builder was causing the incompatibility issue. Just for laughs I decided to try uninstalling Flex Builder and then install MXUnit. SUCCESS! What's more after MXUnit was installed I had no problem installing Flex Builder. I never would have guessed it, well I suppose I did stumble upon it but I didn't really thing it was going to work. Flex builder must be a little more flexible (ha) in regrards to which version of the equinox plugin is installed. I wonder if the same workaround would have worked with 3.3, probably. No time to check now though gotta get back to work using shiny new eclipse 3.4.

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ECOBOT is released!

Eclipse 3.4.1 Ganymede, MXUnit, Flexbuilder 3 on MacOSX