[7 Apr 2009 | 3 Comments | 781 views]
Facebook Killed My Blog

It’s happening all around the world. Blogs are either being left unattended for months at a time or worse yet, becoming victims of what’s commonly known as “mercy killing.” After all, who has time to write a semi-complete thought when you can just spit out a single sentence about what’s on your mind?

Well, this is my declaration to get this thing going again. Not right at this moment though. I’m too tired to write anything of substance and I have some work to do for my day gig.

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CSS, Flex, Web Design »

[14 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 35 views]

It seems like it would be easy. A large background image in the back of your flex app that doesn’t stretch the entire width and height of your browser. Unfortunately the CSS control of the current version of Flex does allow for the positioning of the background. But here is a solution…

Flex, Football, Kingdom Bits, Local Songwriters, Photography »

[7 Jul 2009 | 2 Comments | 352 views]

Let’s just get this out of the way first. If you read any online review of the book The Shack then you will inevitably see someone post a negative comment about the book. Then no matter how solid the points are and no matter how clearly they are stated, inevitably someone replies in the book’s defense by saying, “It’s just a fictional novel.” The points are not rebutted. The points are not challenged. They are dismissed by this one simple statement.

CSS, ColdFusion, Flex, Web Design »

[20 Apr 2009 | No Comment | 614 views]

In a previous post I showed how I sent XML out from ActionScript 3, here is how I parsed it in ColdFusion and created a PDF.

Flex »

[20 Apr 2009 | No Comment | 2,725 views]

As I was searching the web trying to find out how to do this all I found was the opposite scenario, XML to an arrayCollection. When I finally did find a bulletin board post on this, all it said was, “LOL. Everyone always asks this.” That wasn’t so helpful so I figured I would write something up.