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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 March, 2006

DDO Tank fer Hire

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

I usually stop playing games when I’m really hyped up about working on both professoinal & personal projects. When the pendulum swings the other way because of failure to meet goals thus causing me to be frustrated, stress from deadlines, or burn out, my gaming increases. The amount of gaming I do, usually, [...]

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3 year-old prototype bit me

Friday, March 24th, 2006

I was having problems with the mx.formatters.CurrencyFormatter in Flex. It takes a number or string, and formats it to look like currency. For example, 1.2567878 can be made to look like $1.25. For some reason, it was not working in my DataGrid and I had no idea why. I built some test [...]

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I’m catching up on the hilarity that can be gained by bequeathing anyone & everyone with a digital video camera and internet access over at Ebaum’s World last Friday evening and spot this Adobe ad on the right side.
You can attribute that to Adobe’s influx of marketting dollars vs. Macromedia’s, attitude towards spending for advertising, [...]

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SWF Socket Bitch for Ruby & Capri Sun Wine

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

Got a call from one of my colleagues asking about something he saw at the AJAX conference up in New York. Some Ruby on Rails guys utilized a 1 pixel by 1 pixel Flash Player 8.5 SWF with a custom built (in a week) bridge (didn’t sound like AFLAX or FABridge) to communicate from [...]

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PodCasting is Hard

Monday, March 13th, 2006

PodCasting is hard… not the recording part, however. I’ve been recording myself on cassette tapes since I was 4, long enough to forget how to spell cassette and being forced to utilize my Firefox Dictionary.com shortcut as brain backup. I’ve been messing with homeade & mouth-made foley my entire life, and put those [...]

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