Babbling about Software

Fireworks won't show the Gradient control arm

2009-10-20T10:57:57Z

While working through "Adobe Fireworks CS4, Classroom In A Book", chapter 4, I found instructions that I couldn't complete. The instructions direct the reader to select a custom-drawn path that has a gradient fill applied to it. It states that y...

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Dreamweaver CS4 doesn't start up (Vista)

2009-10-12T09:58:37Z

I'm going to tell you how to fix Dreamweaver in 3 easy steps! Dreamweaver failed to start up for me today. The last time it loaded successfully was before I moved my website folders around (manually, outside the program). The quick summary o...

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Dreamweaver, SozoDomains, DomainMonger and GoDaddy

2009-03-26T09:04:12Z

I'm a new fan of GoDaddy. It's very clear that they put a lot of time into their management tools. The side effect of that is that some of their online help information is outdated. It's hard to follow step-by-step instructions when the UI has c...

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Web Hosting Problem

2009-03-26T08:44:26Z

I registered 2 new domain names. One is a '.com', the other a '.name'. I set up DNS service for them through a company that provides me with DNS service for a different pre-existing domain. I have web hosting through Globat.com. Once I figured...

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Flex Bug Quash

2009-03-23T19:16:40Z

Busy week. Preparing for Flex Bug Quash. It's put on by a couple of the Flex User's Group guys. Nate and Marty.

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FlexBuilder To-Do Plugin

2009-01-29T19:03:33Z

Go here: http://www.richinternet.de/blog/index.cfm?entry=911D4B57-0F0D-5A73-AF6F4D4D04099757, download the plugin. Unzip it to its own directory. You'll see a plugin folder and a .jar in that folder. Copy that .jar into the 'plugins' directory w...

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Flex awesomeness: Law enforcement app

2008-12-27T03:03:12Z

I'm trying to avoid blogging in the 'echo chamber', but in case anyone's reading, this Flex app: http://www.universalmind.com/#/capabilities/demos/spatialkey-crime ("SpatialKey") looks pretty awesome! It's a law enforcement application, but th...

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Odd behavior when restricting text input to alphanumeric

2008-10-21T23:14:20Z

Let's say I want to have a text input that only accepts a-z, A-Z and 0-9. I can set this up in MXML as shown: I needed to bar users from entering special characters, but for some reason the c...

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Learning Flex: Videos

2008-10-13T00:28:29Z

What we're doing: You've started learning Flex. You have some books. Perhaps you've finished the core 'starter' documents Adobe provides (see my previous post). And maybe you'd like to: Dig deeper into Flex Get tips on where to go to learn mo...

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Learning Flex for "book learners": What should I read?

2008-10-12T22:31:08Z

I've always found it best to start at the beginning. A number of books cover 'how to use Flex components,' but it's frequently unhelpful when you begin trying to toss around events or encounter a data binding issue. It becomes much easier to pro...

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