Entries for month: August 2007

Unable to resolve a class for ResourceBundle: CairngormMessages

Today I was building an application using Cairngorm 2.2. All was going well and I was very happy with the progress I was making. But then, I started facing this error while compiling the application.

Unable to resolve a class for ResourceBundle: CairngormMessages

From the text of the error it appears that the locale-specific bundle for CairngormMessages is not available/visible.

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Creating RSS feed for a page with no RSS feed

It is not often that I get excited about technology. Let me rephrase that. I get excited about technologies all the time. It is not often that I get excited enough by them to keep using them again and again.

While researching for my presentation on "Working with Web APIs", I started working with dapper.net to create an RSS feed for a page on a website that did not provide an RSS feed. And there a gazillion such pages on the internet.

And what can I say. Dapper rocks!

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Working with Web APIs -- Presentation at Web on the Piste

Just finished my session on Working with Web APIs at Web on the Piste, Queenstown, New Zealand. The presentation was about:

  • What are Web APIs
  • How do they work
  • How to use them
  • Creating a ColdFusion and Flex front-end using Flickr API

As with my presentation yesterday on "Introduction to Flex", I had a lot of content, and lots to talk about. The presentation is attached with this blog. It was a light presentation. My session was one of the last few sessions for today and I just wanted to try and keep it simple and fun.

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