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  • Little Girl Sings a Strange Jam

    Twitter is down, imagine that.  So, posting this uber-rad, dope, and whack song here instead. Just needs a baseline, and it’s club worthy.

  • Fuel Shortage in Georgia?

    In central Atlanta, driving home from a friends house, my wife calls.

    “My friend came over, but there was no gas on the way here.  She doesn’t have enough to make it home.”

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  • Forcing Landscape Printing in Flex 2 & 3

    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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