In my most recent Adobe Flex project, I am storing color in the database as a hexadecimal number. However, Flex’s color picker widget (mx:ColorPicker) stores color values in decimal format. Now, I could use PHP’s dechex() function to convert the number, but I’d much rather send the data over in the proper format. After much [...]
As I’ve mentioned before, I use Microsoft’s Windows Home Server as my home’s central data store. Recently, I upgraded from the trial to the full version. Since I was going to upgrade the installation, I figured that I might as well (slightly) upgrade the server itself. As such, I wanted to copy off the data [...]
Occasionally, I pretend to be a Python developer. Thus far, my IDE of choice has been PyDev + Eclipse. Recently, I did a few minor upgrades to my development box that allowed my to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista 64. Before I could begin using Eclipse, I needed to install the latest version [...]
If, by chance, you’re like me and recently installed Visual Studio 2008 onto a 64-bit version of Windows, you may be getting the following error when you attempt to debug an application: The components for the 64-bit debugger are not registered. Please repair your Visual Studio 2008 Remote Debugger installation via ‘Add or Remove Programs’ [...]
Just thought that I’d post some tidbits of knowledge that I’ve learned today: To properly display multi-line ItemRenderers using one of Flex’s list-based controls, you need to set the list control’s "variableRowHeight" property setting to true. If your ItemRenderer’s size changes dynamically based on the supplied content (ex: long blocks of text), you’ll need to [...]