I hate logging and debugging in Flex. HATE it. You can trace, which is about as useful as a javascript alert. You can use as3-commons-logging, but this still lacks the robustness of something like log4j and certainly lacks the user-friendliness of something like FireBug.

In fact, my biggest gripe is that I want debugging to be like in FireBug even though I program for Flash. I want to be able to walk down the tree of any object I log, I want to be able to change values of strings and ints on a breakpoint and see the visual reactions, and I want to be able to highlight my app like I’m highlighting the DOM elements in FireBug. So, I assumed this was just too much to ask.

I finally broke down when rewriting the front end to a simple survey app recently. I was copying over my “logger class” that basically allows me to dump a bunch of text to the console (just like I’m programming in VB6 on my fancy new Gateway desktop and it’s slick Pentium II processor!). So, without much hope, I typed in “Debugging Flex” into google, said a prayer to the FireBug gods, and hit return.

This is the debugger.

And this is how to attach it to a flex / adobe air / flash application in a nice, logger factory kinda way.

see also.

I’ve been looking into getting some use out of my Wii Balance Board. Now, rather than just hook it up to the Wii (Bah, too easy), I’ve figured that the hords of homebrewers out there could help me get it on my mac.

Well, no surprise, but there were plenty of forums, homebrewer’s web sites, and even wikis that helped me out. Here are just a few of them.

ptmc.org
WiiBREW
WiiHacks

Hell, they don’t even know how to play nice with each other on my computer.

Everybody needs a little serial in the morning.

At least, that’s what I keep telling myself.  I’ll probably be starting this project in a month or two, but I’ve started reading up on it lately.  Interaction with the DB9 RS-232 standard Serial Port is about as exciting as it sounds.  Still, for someone like myself, this project just makes me giddy.  I’ve never interacted with any kind of hardware before, and while this is a simple read only transaction, at least it’s getting closer.