Monthly Archives: April 2007

Don’t Smell the Roses, Go to a Garden: Joshua Bell Story is BS

A few people Twittered and blogged about Joshua Bell’s solo in a Metro station. Most I read mourned humanity’s lack of ability to recognize beauty around us, being too enraptured with our own trivial problems. I concurred and moved on. … Continue reading

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Diffing on a Mac Resolution

I have everything I need on a Mac now after finally getting svnX to work, and thus justifying it’s existence (still doesn’t work with Google Code, though… must need more practice). Subversion client? Check. All that’s left is a diffing … Continue reading

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Flex Chronicles #23: Compiling Modules on a Mac & Code Gen

Modules don’t extend Application, but rather Module, which is basically a Container. As such, you can’t “preview” modules in Flex Builder like you can Applications. You instead have to load them into a ModuleLoader. A ModuleLoader has to then be … Continue reading

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How big are my Flex classes?

Joe Berkovitz has an entry here about a Java class in the free Flex 2 SDK that exposes how big each of your compiled ActionScript classes are in a given SWF. When an ActionScript class is compiled, it goes through … Continue reading

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