I received an email this morning because apparently someone had looked me up on a site named Spokeo. When I went to the site and signed up it had every public move that I had made on the internet on any open social network. All of my public Flickr pictures, all of my stumble upon, [...]
Entries from March 2008
Spokeo- This is creepy- All of your internet actions in one page- Big Brother
March 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: bloglife
A letter to the Aspiring Programmer - Part 2- It’s the Idiom you Idiot!
March 11th, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve been a bit of a language junkie over the last five years. I was looking for the language that would do it better, faster, and easier than the next one. The silver lining is that I’ve managed to pick up several programming languages and their associated problem solving styles along the way. [...]
Tags: Code or Die
Polar Express-In March off topic for the parents out there
March 9th, 2008 · No Comments
OK. I was able to bear watching Polar Express 3 times a day even on the long drive up from Miami to Charlotte. When I came home from work last week and M had talked mommy into playing the movie in mid march though it was a bit too much. Ikt’s not [...]
Tags: life
Further Thinking about updateDisplayList() and commitProperties() and creating dynamic subcomponents
March 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I’ve had my thinking about updateDisplayList() thinking corrected by Lordy whose blog is actually named UpdateDisplayList ironically enough. That lead me to go back to my component bibles including Building a Flex Component and Advanced Custom Components. Sure enough right there on page 16 of Building Custom Components it says that in the commitProperties() method [...]
Tags: Flex Components
Architecture Choices for ActionScript Flex Components
March 3rd, 2008 · 4 Comments
Update: Check Futher Thinking for updated/corrected information
I know that the party line is explore the components and then you’ll learn to build your own but I need to hear from the component developers out there if you’re adopting a particular framework. I almost had an aneurysm trying to build a custom component using [...]
Tags: Flex Components
ViewFactory as a Solution for Dynamic ItemRenderers
March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
When looking for a solution for ItemRenderers that could be changed dynamically based on the type of the data item’s Value Object the solution that I came across was to have a container that would in turn contain a factory. Although this is a viable solution it seemed to have a whole lot [...]
Tags: Flex Components