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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 June, 2006

Can Flex be Design Driven?

Friday, June 30th, 2006

I met up with Kenny Bunch, his wife, his brother Phillip, and Dave Buhler yesterday after work. Our goal was to hang out, and talk tech. Kenny’s pretty well known down here in Atlanta, mainly because of his Turner & CNN contacts. His programmer background also adds a unique perspective on things [...]

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A data tip is a tooltip that shows for text in a datagrid column that does not fit. So, if you have a “Name” column in your datagrid, and the person’s name is “Pimp Double-G Booty-licious Birdman”, but the column is only 20 pixels wide, the text will clip. If showDataTips is true [...]

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Flex 2 Released – Flex 4 Teh W1n!!!

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

To skip the nostalgia:

Read the official press releases about Flex 2 and Flash Player 9
Check out the features and facets of Flex 2
Check out some Flex resources and connect with the community

I’ve been thinking for the past week how I’d announce Flex 2 on my blog. As someone who is aggregated in a variety [...]

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Customer Expectations

Monday, June 26th, 2006

This is more applicable to service work than product work I think. I had a discussion last week that greatly changed the way I work. I learned the customer’s expectations.
One of the reasons’ people have problems in personal relationships is that they do not communication expectations to the other party. This builds [...]

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I attempted to get a working plugin with the Yahoo! Messenger Plugin SDK via the new beta version of Yahoo! Messenger that Justin mentioned. There were a few inconsistencies and issues with the documentation, but they used the “B” word, so I’ll be nice.
There was no registry file so I modified the keys myself. [...]

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