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My Thoughts on Adobe Abandoning Linux

So what.   I’m sure there’s lot’s of linux users out there, there’s also probably a lot of Pine users and Mac PPC owners, that doesn’t mean they matter. Linux folks are used to adversity and being an undervalued minority, so really nothing is changing for them. If they want AIR, let ‘em compile their [...]

Getting itemRenderer position in an Advanced dataGrid

I was working on a project that required me to replicate MS Access type functionality, in Flex. One of those tasks was clicking into a cell in the datasheet view and knowing what column I selected, so that I could change that column’s datatype. I also have to know which cell specifically was clicked so [...]

Inverting an Axis on a chart

I had a case on my latest project where I had a chart that needed to not start at 0,0 as most do. Rather this chart, and the data it represented needed to have it’s Y Axis inverted. The better numbers were closer to the bottom, and higher in value. 0 was bad. I did [...]

Free?!?!?!?!

According to this if you don’t plan to make any money from it, you can get a license for Flex and Flex Builder. Kinda cool, I hadn’t heard about it until I read it on another blog. Pretty cool of Macromedia since Flex is so god damn expensive. This gives developers a chance to play [...]