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Entries from February 2006

Java 6- Mustang is out

February 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

Mustang is in beta now - actually came out on my birthday- how sweet of them.

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Elastic Effect

February 21st, 2006 · No Comments

This is one of my favorite effects of all time. I just really love the way it looks and it came up on Flash coders today!!Gandalf  from Ericd.net was kind enuff to post an example and offer the source code!

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Adobe Engage with Flash

February 20th, 2006 · No Comments

This is an impressive presentation Adobe Engage with Flash
It’s pretty immersive and well done and showcases several examples of the application of Flash on several platforms.

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More Newbie Python goodness

February 17th, 2006 · No Comments

I’m relatively new to Python and just getting my feet wet so things strike me and then take a while to sink in. I just realized that whne creating a class in python that by declaring the set method- for example:
def setName(self,name):
self.name=name    (this should be indented)
within my class. The name property is automagically [...]

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The power of Python

February 12th, 2006 · 1 Comment

I’ve been “collecting languages” for a few months now- becoming marginally proficient in several while using them to improve my ActionScript.  The latest language that caught my eye has been Python.  I picked up a copy of Begining Python -Novice to Pro.  I went through a couple of chapters and although I enjoyed the power [...]

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So much progress

February 10th, 2006 · No Comments

I have had so much learning going on in the last few days.  At work I got to use the CellRenderer API which I think is absolutely …shyt-neat is the word that comes to mind.  The ability to add a component to a repeating set and use the setValue function to customize the presentation.  I [...]

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First Mini App

February 1st, 2006 · 1 Comment

This one’s short but I got the “view source feature to work.  This mini-Flex-app demonstrates the dynamic generation of custom buttons based on the parameters that you set. It’s heavily based on a post I came across this weekend.   I know it’s simple but it works.
custom buttons

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Tags: Flex 2.0 · life