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ActionScript 3.0 Design Pattern Re-use and Modification

Dec 23, 2009 4:55 PM
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very Monday I have to separate out the paper, glass, aluminum, and plastic to recycle and take them up to the curb. This last Monday while engaged in this weekly ritual, I thought that recycling a design pattern might be an interesting exercise. Additionally, it’s the kind of design pattern advantage that can be used [...] Related posts:Take a Design Pattern to Work Part IV: Establishing a Design Pattern FoundationHitchhiker’s Guide to ActionScript 3.0: The Dragon Factory—Part 2Design Pattern Principles for ActionScript 3.0: The Open/Closed Principle (translate)

Karate Kid Trailer

Dec 23, 2009 4:52 PM
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Chan and Smith have their work cut out emulating Morita and Macchio. (translate)

Zinc 3.0 versus AIR

Dec 23, 2009 4:51 PM
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Adobe AIR certainly changed the way we think about rich desktop applications. It was a real sigh of relief for me when the details of AIR came out during the initial days. We no longer had to battle with the Flash security sandbox while building desktop/kiosk applications. A lot of our dreams could turn to reality. It took a few lines of code and the power of Flex to build a simple Picasa desktop widget to display your Picasa album pics. The same code with a few changes can be ported to the web as well. Now, that's kewl!As the (translate)

Flex 3 Tree double-click to edit

Dec 23, 2009 4:50 PM
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Some people asked about changing the default editing behavior of a Flex 3 Tree control so  that item editing starts on a double-click event instead of the default single click.Indeed it has been covered several times on forums or mailing... (translate)

Learn a new language over the holidays

Dec 23, 2009 4:48 PM
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I am off in about an hour until the new year and I am pretty excited to have a nice long break. If you are looking to pick up another language over the Holidays I would suggest looking at 2 languages. Groovy/Grails if you want to stay in a similar en... (translate)

Free Electric Car If You Owe A Bit In Taxes

Dec 23, 2009 4:38 PM
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This was just shared with me this morning and might prove interesting to some of you out there. If you live in the US and have a tax liability of over $6000, you can effectively get a free electric car ... well, a street legal golf cart. I say effectively because you will likely still need to pay shipping and you have to front the money while you wait for Uncle Sam to get you your rebate. The person who shared this with me has already vetted it with his accountant so it at least seems legitimate to some. However, (translate)

Times are tough, even for Santa.

Dec 23, 2009 4:38 PM
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Bad Santa robs Nashville area bank Wow. How do you explain that one to the kids? (translate)

WTF is open?

Dec 23, 2009 4:37 PM
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So, Gruber thinks that Google’s The meaning of open blog post is the biggest pile of horseshit he’s ever seen from Google. I couldn’t disagree more. The Google post is long. On first skim I can see coming away thinking it flip-flops. But the core principals in there are solid and clear. It lays out an [...] (translate)

Don Alder “Ms Diana” Acoustic Guitar

Dec 23, 2009 4:37 PM
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The Wall (Great China Wall) Solo Acoustic Instrumental – Don Alder

Dec 23, 2009 4:37 PM
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