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This is the blog of Jesse Warden, a Rich Internet Application Architect. He specializes in using Flex and Flash to create Rich Internet Applications.

Archive for January, 2005

New Search: No More Atomz, Hello Google

Saturday, January 29th, 2005

I first started using MoveableType’s built in search for users to search my site. Then it broke.
Anu told me to use Atomz.com as their search was free. They have some interesting reporting tools, and while it does help me focus the writing of my blog content based on what people are [...]

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Apparently I’m the only one who codes on a Friday night when your school is cancelled the next day because of an impending ice-storm of doom because I live in a hot state that has 2 salt trucks to its name and people drive 80mph when ice is falling from the sky because they aren’t [...]

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One technique I showed last night at my presentation on Flex for Flash Developers I didn’t explain the significance. When installing applications into Macromedia Central, if you add additional applications tags, it’ll install multiple applications, all from 1 product.xml file.
However, 1 of my applications merely operated in a different state. If you are [...]

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Flex Chronicles #8: backgroundColor

Friday, January 28th, 2005

This style has mad significance. First, if you don’t set it on most containers, they won’t have a background. If they don’t have a background (fill/rect/what have you), you cannot use them as drop targets since there is nothing to detect a drop on.
Secondly, as you’ll see in my next post, if they [...]

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As mentioned by JD and Michael, Flash Lite and Flex are on the agenda this evening. I’m packing my computer right after I post this to head to the office in Atlanta. After I annihilate some coding issues and fawn over a database schema, I’ll be heading to Georgia Tech’s Student Center to [...]

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