I’ve been working on a Flex app where I needed to force landscape printing to ensure it would print out well.  Relying on the user to choose landscape won’t work.  Steven Sacks had the original solution in AS2/AS1. Darron Schall had some additional advice for Flex 1.5 built upon from Lin Lin’s advice.  I’m using Flex 3 with AS3, so had to build upon their work.  There were also some additional things I needed to do that they didn’t mention.  The additional items are embedding fonts, forcing validation, and making the right choice between vector & bitmap printing.
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No Mediator vs. No Singleton in Cairngorm & PureMVC
I had an errand to run yesterday and my peer at ESRIA, Brian Riley, had some interesting news, so it was a perfect time to call. After we discussed his good news, I then veered the conversation to lack of a formalized Mediator in Cairngorm to get his thoughts. Also known as “Abstract Brian”, he’s a self-proclaimed OOP Purist, always striving for writing the most maintainable, well architected code. He’s also a Cairngorm fan.
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Scheduling Gig Challenges
It seems a common challenge for smaller service industry software shops & agencies is scheduling. If you are spending too much of your resources attempting to get new work, you may be neglecting your current customers’. If you spend no resources on getting new work, you’ll have some down time with no money coming in. Obviously the ideal is to end one job on Friday and start the next on Monday.
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Being Independent & Making Money Using Flex: My 360Flex Speech
…now with 200% more “typically”!
I was originally scheduled to speak about Making Bling with Flex at the 360Flex conference here in Atlanta. I then got the flu, learned I needed to have an organ removed at the emergency room, and missed the entire conference. Doug & Juan filled in for me. Days later after the surgery, upon regaining some semblance of consciousness, I received “get well” cards signed by the Flex community from the conference (thanks for mailing, Leif!).