iPhone Madness

July 28, 2008
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Well, I finally stepped into the 90s and purchased my first cell phone. Not wanting to settle for anything but the best, I decided to get an iPhone. I’m still learning to type so I’ll keep it short, but so far it’s looking pretty sweet.

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Flex Tidbits

July 25, 2008
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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 [...]

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Posting From Live Writer

July 18, 2008

I’m sure nobody cares, but I decided to take the plunge and install Windows Live Writer.  So far it looks pretty sweet: it is much more natural to write in Live Writer than in WordPress’ built-in posting tool.  Time will tell if this thing sticks. –Adam

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WordPress, IIS, and ISAPI Rewrite

July 15, 2008

One of the servers that I administer is a traditional Windows Server 2003 box (ASP.NET, SQL Server, etc.). Recently, we decided to add a quasi-internal, CMS-like website to manage and track software projects. Since I’m a big fan of WordPress, I decided to attempt an install on IIS. Unfortunately, IIS doesn’t support mod_rewrite and thus [...]

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Changing Mouse Cursor for Flex mx:Label

July 3, 2008
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In my current Flex-based project, I am creating several labels that act like hyperlinks but was having trouble changing the cursor type to the traditional “hand.”  After some moderate searching, I found out that you have to declare three properties: useHandCursor = true; buttonMode = true; mouseChildren = false; With these properties set, the mouse [...]

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