In anticipation of CFUNITED (25 days to go!), a Flash Wacky Bash The Guru game has been posted online. This is your chance to hit myself, Ray Camden, Michael Smith, Hal Helms, Simon Horwith, and others on the head (if you feel so inclined).
Sho Kuwamoto has posted a three part series on dealing with asynchronous events in ActionScript. This one is required reading: Part 1 , Part II , Part III .
I'll be in Mexico City in June for a series of customer and partner events. While I am there I will get the opportunity to present Flex 2 to Adobe User Group Mexico on Tuesday June 13th. Details should be on the group website shortly.
Google Maps and Earth Day Network have teamed up to help you make your summer vacation a green one, and thus Summer of Green .
A few months ago Barry Schwartz proposed to his girlfriend via a custom Ask.com search . Well, apparently the couple is now married . So sweet.
Web Host Industry Review is running a story about how "minor league hockey organization the Ontario Hockey League has begun conducting its draft online through an interface resembling those used in many online fantasy sports pools." As per the story, the application saves time and money, and "is...
ColdFusion debug output is returned to Flex apps as part of the ResultEvent (as of beta 3 of CF 7.0.2). Of course, CF debugging must be enabled. This example does a simple text dump of returned debug information: public function ResultHandler(event:ResultEvent):void {...
I just discovered a new SELECT clause that has been added to T-SQL in SQL Server 2005. TABLESAMPLE can be used to return a sampling of rows (either a fixed number or a specified percent of the table rows). Here is how it is used: /* Get a sample 5 rows */ SELECT * FROM table TABLESAMPLE (5 ROWS) /*...
Emmy Huang (Product Manager for Flash Player) has posted an update on Flash Player 9 for Linux (bottom line, it's being worked on).
My Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes uses a little RegEx Tester utility to aid study, and versions of this utility have been posted for multiple languages. The next most requested language is PHP, and I just posted a PHP port of the utility created by my co-worker Charles Bihis....