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This hurdle took about forty-five minutes out of my life today so I thought that it would be nice to go ahead and put it out in the atmosphere one more time.
When you add an eventListener to something and later want to remove it so as to not have your code exsanguinate- (I guess you [...]

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I was using dispatchEvent and was worried that the next line of code would be run before the recipients of the dispatch had executed their code. Based on the trace that I got the response is immediate. This lead me to start thinking...
Does dispatching an event essentially mean that the next thing on [...]

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I was on Amazon looking for what books are in the pipeline (weird habit of mine). I put in the keyword ActionScript 3 and got . Yup. That's right. ActionScript 3 Cookbook. And Joey Lott and Keith Peters are the authors so you know it's going to make [...]

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After a few months of thinking of interfaces as the chapter that I would gloss over in every Object-oriented programming book that I read the reality of the power of the interface hit me like a ton of bricks today.  Well to be honest it brushed me yesterday- I was reading through Eckel's Thinking in [...]

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I went to see bodies- The exhibition last week and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I went with kind of a crappy attitude because gross anatomy though 8 years ago still hasn't gone into the part of my brain where I can "look back on it and laugh".

My first thought was the [...]

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I had to find out how nerdy I am after I came across it on Rob's blog
I would like to thank Rob for negating years of denial and hours of therapy to convince me that I had gotten cool in my old age!

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I found a useful PHP Class that converts arrays returned from PHP to XML. I've been able to use it with the FileUploader that I posted earlier to produce an XML file that I am binding to the Horizontal List. I thought that others might find some use for it.
I just [...]

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Okay my Blog ate that last post and would not set it to public. I apologize for the dead link.
I was trying to check which of my skills transfer from Flash 8 to Flex 2 and built the beginings of a picture uploader. The client-side script is a php script from [...]

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I was trying to check which of my skills transfer from Flash 8 to Flex 2 and built the beginings of a picture uploader. The client-side script is a php script from a Flash-db.
Note that this doesn't have any of the refined error checking functionality etc. I just wanted to see if [...]

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I had read on Aral's blog that this version of AMFPHP was generating stub code for the ARP framework and I figured they meant a couple of server side snippets and maybe a service locator but when I stopped by the AMFPHP site and clicked ARP Stub code just for shiggles- I almost fell out [...]

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Everyone is picking their path to learning AS3. My path of choice is a technique that I have seen used in other programming languages. By seeking the use of design patterns in AS3 I'll be digging through the APIs and finding where my favorite classes from AS2 have been repackaged, what has [...]

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"What we want here is mass adoption of the programming model"-
There it is!! You made him say it. I thoroughly enjoyed this interview. They deliver the info and even play devil's advocate. The whole while the not so subconscious message at the bottom "Go beyond Ajax with Flex". He built an [...]

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I've been researching this new feature in the upcoming Java-Mustang. The ability to integrate scripting languages and use them to access the Java API. In particular I saw them mention using Javascript to access the Java API. The first thing that came to mind was that if Javascript can access the Java [...]

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You have got to try google-romance. It's amazing what Google is able to accomplish with a search algorithm!

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