I recently upgraded flex builder to 3.0.2 to play with the new Flash 10 goodness and came across this little problem.

Whenever I clicked run it would just sit there for ages and never launch the app. If I clicked debug I got the following error:

Process terminated without establishing connection to debugger.

Command:

“C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\sdks\3.2.0\bin\adl.exe” “C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\Flex Builder 3\SampleApp\bin-debug\SampleApp-app.xml” “C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\Flex Builder 3\DexterAir\bin-debug”

Output from command:

error while loading initial content

Turns out the solution is easy when you know how, thanks to this post.

The solution is a simple as changing the namespace in the app.xml file from:

<application xmlns=”http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.0″>

to

<application xmlns=”http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.5″>

Which is fine if you want to upgrade you app to 1.5 – not sure if there is still a way to compile apps for AIR 1.0 though.

10 days ago, Facebook developer Joe Hewitt rocked the iPhone development world when he announced that he would stop making iPhone apps because he was fed up with the way Apple is running the App Store. This is significant since Hewitt was pretty much solely responsible for one of the most popular (and best) iPhone apps out there: Facebook’s. And now, just a little over a week later, we may be seeing the downside of Hewitt’s decision.

The Facebook iPhone app is broken, and has been for a while now. Every single user profile page contains zero updates or posts. Instead, each loads a stream that reads “USER has no recent posts.” Judging from Twitter searches, tips coming in, and a Facebook thread, this has been the case since at least yesterday, and possibly before that.