in a rush

In my business there is sometimes a bit of travel and it is always a struggle to get better travel conditions. Then is often a crap shoot whether you will stuck between two BIG smelly guys or the kids.
Virgin Airways seems to be trying to DV8 from the norm.  Power at every seat. Ethernet and [...]

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I got tired of maintaining my CF based site so I moved to a WordPress blog. It’s so much easier to plug new stuff in and there are a bunch of people building stuff for WP, I figured that I might as well do it.
I am in the process of moving all of my old [...]

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Being a developer is a tough job. We”re constantly under pressure to get some piece of code working as soon as possible. When we”re in a pinch, we often come up with some wacky workaround (aka refactor candidates).

While working on a recent Flex project I found a code sample that someone created because they were having trouble getting the useHandCursor to work.

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One limitation of the Model tag is that if you supply one instance of a child tag in an <mx:Model> tag, there is no way for Flex to know if you intend it to be an array or a single property instance. You can work around this limitation by using an <mx:Object> tag instead of an <mx:Model> tag and declaring an <mx:Array> tag inside the <mx:Object> tag. As an added benefit, you can then dynamically add to the object creating an array of objects.

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My blog has been quiet lately due to a number of reasons, but the #1 reason is that I”m working on the AIR: Building Desktop Applications with Flex course for Adobe. Having been an instructor for many years and a developer for even longer, this is a great opportunity for me to give back to [...]

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There are many reasons why you might want to add components to containers dynamically. The most common reasons are for performance or flexibility. Either way, having a good understanding of how it works is essential.
First a little background information about what these methods are from
The addChild and addChildAt methods come from the DisplayObjectContainer class. The [...]

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Helping a friend the other day, I discovered some quirkiness in using CFForm in a hosted environment. Now, if you have not gotten used to using CFForm in a hosted environment already… here a little bit of advice.
Copy the entire CFIDE/scripts directory into your site. Second, add the scriptSrc attribute to the CFForm tag that [...]

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You will find this on a couple blogs, but since I”ve given presentations on ColdFusion performance since the Allaire days, I thought I should share.
My friends at webapper discovered an issue with CFSWITCH under load where the expression was a string.
In my presentations, I often encouraged the use of CFSWITCH over using if/elseif logic. [...]

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Along with a few other certified Flex instructors, I recently attended beta versions of the Flex 2 courses. Hold onto you keyboards everyone! Whether you”re new to Flex or not, you will want to attend these courses. They cover the basics. They cover the advanced stuff. They cover the visual stuff. They ROCK!
And "Yes", there is a certification exam in the works. The new Flex 2 courses will be sure to cover everything on the exam and more.

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‘issue when embedding fonts’, ‘In Macromedia Flex 1.5, there is a bit of fun to be had with htmlText in the <mx:Text> component. I was recently building an application in which I was displaying some content from a datasource when, for the strangest reason, some of the content just would not display.

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