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Entries from March 2007

Harvard Nostalgia

March 31st, 2007 · No Comments

It’s funny that when I was at Harvard my goal was to get the f&ck out as quickly as possible. I remember counting down days to graduation and having it on my door in the dorm so that everyone knew that I was very much counting my “days to freedom”. I told my family [...]

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Tags: life

How Do you Explore the Flex Framework Source?

March 31st, 2007 · 3 Comments

My current project involves creating some custom components and I have found that exploring the Flex 2 Framework is a valuable guide. Right now I have copied the Flex 2 framework source into a new Flex Project so that I can explore the architecture with the benefit of control-click and other Flex help. [...]

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Tags: Flex 2 · Flex Components

What is the Difference Between a Developer and a Consultant?

March 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments

What is the difference in the Role that a developer plays and that of a consultant? I figured if I asked on my blog I could leave this here as a reference for others with the same question.

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Tags: Code or Die · Dev Resources · life

Found my backup-sql. About to restore my blog…Wait!!! don’t wanna spam MXNA

March 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I was messing with wordpress and came across this ingenious backup plugin on my new version of my blog.  Then it dawned on me that I had seen this before.  I was able to go to the archives that I keep of my hard drive and find a backup of the sql of my blog [...]

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Tags: life

Does anyone do 3 Monitors? Would love feedback

March 10th, 2007 · 8 Comments

I experience Nirvanna when I went from 1 monitor to two. I’m at the point of adding a third monitor and have heard mixed revies about this. Sometimes my two monitor setup is crowded and I’m feeling greedy. I’m using Ultramon which I love to customize the two monitors. I’d love [...]

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Tags: life

So what’s going to happen to my Studio 8 Upgrade with all of this CS3 talk?

March 10th, 2007 · 3 Comments

I’ve been getting excited about the impending release of the whole CS3 set but got hit with a troubling thought.  What do the changes to the packaging of Flash and the elements of the Studio 8 (from the Macromedia days) mean to someone at upgrade time.  I love my Studio 8 studio but…I’m not ready [...]

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Tags: Flash

An Easy way to Implement Custom Tree Models

March 8th, 2007 · 3 Comments

I’m not even going to pretend to think this is a best practice….but…
In a quick hack based way it worked and allowed me to use custom classes for my Tree in Flex !! I have an array of custom elements that are in many cases nested several levels deep like a set of directories. [...]

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Tags: Flex 2

My Little one wore underpants today!!!

March 8th, 2007 · No Comments

I’m sure you parent out there can empathize. There’s not much else to this post. My little one wore underpants to school today. He only had one accident! Dad is excited!!

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When Good brains Go Bad- The first psychotic break

March 2nd, 2007 · 10 Comments

This entry is nowhere near as deep as the title would lead you to believe. The title is more indicative of how much this thought has been consuming a piece of my brain for the last few months.
In the last 8 months I’ve seen more mentally ill people that I care to count and [...]

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Tags: Psych!