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RabidGadfly Seeking Full Time Work in Massachusetts 6 months ago

I was notified on Friday that the entire web development team at my company, Pongo Resume, will be laid off at the end of this month. I’ve been a full-time web developer for 8 years. The majority of my time at Pongo was spent building their next-generation Resume Builder in Flex 4.5 as well …

RabidGadfly Seeking Full Time Work in Massachusetts 6 months ago

I was notified on Friday that the entire web development team at my company, Pongo Resume, will be laid off at the end of this month. I’ve been a full-time web developer for 8 years. The majority of my time at Pongo was spent building their next-generation Resume Builder in Flex 4.5 as well …

Flex Optimization Tip: Evaluate Your Setter Parameter last year

Flash Builder makes it easy to generate getters and setters from a variable definition. Just select the variable, right-click and choose Source > Generate getters/setters. The generated code is simple; the getter returns the value and the setter sets the value: private var _myData:String; public …
keywords as3, flash builder, flex, getter, optimization

Swiz ‘Could not get a reference to class’ Gotcha last year

I’ve been implementing Swiz framework in my most recent Flex project. It’s worked great so far, but this one error sidetracked me for an hour or so: "Could not get a reference to class for YourEvent.YOUR_EVENT_TYPE. Did you specify its package in SwizConfig::eventPackages?" Obviously, …
keywords flex, swiz

ColdFusion Mappings and Hibernate last year

Here’s a quick tip on an issue that set me back a couple of hours. ORM stands for Object/Relational Mapping, an object-based method of reducing the amount of code required to communicate with a database. Hibernate is an ORM Framework included in ColdFusion 9. I’m new to ORM so I started out by …
keywords coldfusion, hibernate, object relational mapping, orm

Unusual Flex Problem? Check Your Metadata! last year

I’ve been working with Flash Builder 4 every day for about six months now, and I love it. Overall, Flash Builder is a great programming environment offering helpful debugging tools, plenty of useful keyboard shortcuts, code-hinting and completion, and error feedback on compilation issues. …
keywords actionscript, as3, compilation errors, debugging tools, flash 4, flash builder, flex, keyboard shortcuts, love, metadata, programming environment, six months, uncategorized

Back up soon last year

Thanks for visiting the site. Unfortunately, the jackass that owned the server my site was hosted on decided to take it down without telling me. Luckily, I have a good portion of it backed up locally because I knew he was a jackass. I hope to be back up and running soon. Sorry for the [...]
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Back up soon last year

Thanks for visiting the site. Unfortunately, the jackass that owned the server my site was hosted on decided to take it down without telling me. Luckily, I have a good portion of it backed up locally because I knew he was a jackass. I hope to be back up and running soon. Sorry for the [...]
keywords jackass, uncategorized

How To Use ColdFusion Mappings With Hibernate last year

Here’s a quick tip on an issue that set me back a couple of hours. ORM stands for Object/Relational Mapping, an object-based method of reducing the amount of code required to communicate with a database. Hibernate is an ORM Framework included in ColdFusion 9. I’m new to ORM so I …
keywords coldfusion, hibernate, mappings, object relational mapping

Create Flex Arrow Buttons Using Spark Path last year

Path is a Flex 4 drawing class that fills a shape using coordinates you provide. It’s very simple once you get the hang of it, and if you add some filters you can come up with a pretty nice looking image. In this post I’m going to show you a quick overview of how to [...]
keywords coordinates, flex, path path, shape