While working on a project last night, I had to do some image resizing on user upload, ie a user uploads his picture and the system had to keep the original and resize the image to 2 other sizes as well and save them on-disk. With ColdFusion, this surely sounds just a few lines of […]
This requirement came up today at work where I had an ArrayCollection of Date Objects and then I had another Date Object and I wanted to find from my Collection of Dates, the closest Date to my given Date – whether in the past or the future. Although this does not sound like a very […]
I am working on a project that has a requirement to report some statistics historically. e.g. how many views a product had this week, this month, this year etc. how many comments were made on a product in the last quarter….and so on… although doing something like this does not sound overly complex when you […]
The 2010 Open Source Awards was launched today by Packt, inviting people to visit www.PacktPub.com and submit nominations for their favorite Open Source project. Now in its fifth year, the Award has been adapted from the established Open Source CMS Award with the wider aim of encouraging, supporting, recognizing and rewarding all Open Source projects. […]
As I am using the Spark List component extensively in my current project, I have come to understand some of the differences between a Spark List and MX List. I thought it would make sense to post my experience with this. With MX components, you have an itemClick Event on your List component. So you […]
I have started using Flash Builder 4 recently and the one feature I am loving the most is the Conditional Debugging. Using conditional breakpoints in Flash Builder 4, you can configure a breakpoint to trigger only after a certain number of loop iterations. For instance, you can halt the application on the third time a […]
As I have recently started working with Flex4, I have started to use some of the new components from the Flex 4 SDK. One of them is the DataGroup class. A brief explanation of the class is below (from the docs) :- The DataGroup class is the base container class for data items. The DataGroup […]
If you are making a HTTPService call in Flex, you need to make sure that the domain specified in the url attribute is the domain from where your application was downloaded or there is a crossdomain.xml file granting access to your application’s originating is available on the domain specified in the HTTPService url attribute. Take […]
So, I often end up in situations where there is just too much data in my Trash and emptying Trash on a Mac can take ages. The annoying bit is – while Trash is being emptied – you can not delete anything else meanwhile. I ran into a situation today where I needed 40GB space […]
I stumbled across YQL today and although I had heard about it in the past, today was the first time, I actually sat down and read the documentation and went through some of the example apps. I am amazed at how powerful it is and am just imagining the wonderful applications that can be built […]
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