Typhoon Ondoy (aka Ketsana) struck and Metro Manila hit really hard.  I was supposed to have a business meeting with Tina at High Street but she texted me that the weather is not cooperating and that we should postpone. The driving rain was quite persuasive so I agreed.

But I didn’t realize it was so bad until late afternoon when James texted about impassable streets and houses flooded up to their second levels! We went out today and devastation was quite evident along our way. But we didn’t see the worst of it till we saw the news. Debris, submerged houses, vehicles stacked like dominos,hundreds if not thousands of refugees. One of the hardest hit areas was Pasig. To think we were not-too-long-ago considering moving there. Horrible.

If  you want to know how to help the victims, check this Google docs spreadsheet.

While playing around with Flex and Web Services, I encounter the following error while trying to access my web service: Security Error Accessing URL.

One solution around this error is to add a crossdomain.xml file in your root directory:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<cross-domain-policy>
    <allow-access-from domain="*"/>
</cross-domain-policy>

But in my case I simply changed my web service definition in Flex from:

<mx:WebService id="employeeService"
 wsdl="http://localhost:8080/EmployeeService/services/EmployeeService?wsdl"
 useProxy="false" showBusyCursor="true" fault="mx.controls.Alert.show(event.fault.faultString)">

To:

<mx:WebService id="employeeService"
 wsdl="http://127.0.0.1:8080/EmployeeService/services/EmployeeService?wsdl"
 useProxy="false" showBusyCursor="true" fault="mx.controls.Alert.show(event.fault.faultString)">

That got it working.