Eclipse Mylyn / Bugzilla "resolution required" UX buglet

Eclipse Mylyn / Bugzilla error...

Submit failed: resolution required:  A valid resolution is required to mark bugs as RESOLVED.

... requires specific steps to avoid.  TL;DR solution and notes after the break.

Using a Linux android emulator server

Situation: You have a fast lots-of-memory Linux desktop box (perhaps remote) to run your Android emulators on and a desktop machine running your IDE.  How best to debug remotely?
SSH port-forwarding instructions for Windows (and others) after the break.

SoapUI aide memoire and groovy scripting (on RTM)

A braindump (not a tutorial) on SoapUI including use of Groovy to script parameter generation!
To whet pre-jump appetites, the SoapUI primary structure:

• Project - houses...
• Methods - Create these including parameters that need populating later (I'm doing REST atm)
• TestSuite - One can only script within a test suite/case so we'll need one
• TestCases -  one for each separable chunks of work.
  Lots of choices but I've mostly used...
• GroovyScript - code to generate values (like hashes)
• PropertyTranfer - Used to copy values between scripts and calls' parameters (REST calls, etc)
• Test Request (REST/SOAP/HTTP/JDBC/AMF!) to make actual calls
• Setup Script and TearDown Script can be placed on TestSuite, TestCase, etc to also house the scripting.  (but I've generally found scripts more handy.)
• Project-wide utility methods can only be defined with a SoapUI Pro license (IIUC).  Without this, I've ended-up with some copy-and-paste re-use :-(  Shame there's no sliding scale from Community to Pro!

Full details after the break and please note this post's a WIP -- perhaps forever!  ('90s webpage, anyone? ;-) )

update-alternatives and the Chrome takeover quash

Finally got round to understanding Ubuntu's /etc/alternatives a little more after installing Chrome made it my default browser!?  More details after the jump (another first!) but briefly:

• List all alternative-able things:

  sudo update-alternatives --get-selections

• Choose which browser:
  (these present menu to select from)

  sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
  sudo update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser

hg rebase or how to move trunk/default changesets to a branch

Scenario:
One wishes to move changesets on trunk (starting with revision A onwards) to a new branch B.

1. Enable the Rebase extension for you / the repository per the RebaseExtension docs
2. If outstanding changes, commit or shelve them!
   (otherwise next step will generate merge request)
3. hg update <A-1>
   (the one before you wish to move to branch B)
4. hg branch B
5. hg status
   confirm output has no actual changes (branch change won't be shown)
6. hg commit -m 'create B'
7. hg branches
   get actual revision for B, we'll call it C
8. hg rebase -s A -d C

That's it.  If insufficiently clear, I can post some screenshots, etc.  Do ask but expect delayed response unless you tweet me!

Error #1069 using namespaced members

Error:

ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property myNamespacedProperty not found on a.b.c.MyClass and there is no default value.

Seen when attempting to access a member (property/method/accessor) of a class that uses a custom namespace, e.g:

messaging_internals function getMillisecondsSinceSent():uint {
    return getTimer() - _lastSentTime;
  }

Obviously here "messaging_internals" is the namespace.

Answer:
Check that both declaration and use are using exactly the same definition of the namespace.  For example, check that you don't have a duplicate definition!

We saw this problem when project A had namespace An on methods in class Ac.  Used by project B in class Bc.  All looked fine, compiled fine but unit testing saw Error #1069.  Eventually realised that a bad refactoring had left a second copy of the namespace An in project B (where it had orignally been), leaving An obscured by the identically named Bn.  Bc was using Bn which failed to resolve to An hence members in Ac were unreachable!
 (Yes, I can add a diagram if anyone wants.)

Obviously ideally the tooling should highlight this.
HTH!

FlexUnit from both FlashBuilder and FlexMojos for library projects

FlashBuilder leaves its FlexUnitTestRunnerUI files in "src".
For packaging:swf FlexMojos projects, that's fine (*1), it builds them.
*1: OK, it may not be all that fine but it doesn't cause failure.
For packaging:swc FlexMojos projects, they fail with "Type was not found" etc errors! How to fix, after the break...

How to fix Flash Builder debugging after breakage by installing Flash Professional

Short version:
Flash Professional messed up Flash Builder's debugging capability.  On Windows, one can replace references to the FP runtime from 'Professional with that to a FlashPlayerDebugger.exe and all will be well.

RESTlet deployment woes (from GlassFish v2 to AppServer v2)

Some incomplete notes on deploying our RESTlet-based application (tested on GlassFish) to our Sun AppServer v2.1.