Category Archives: Flex

Fixed Background Image In Flex

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… Continue reading

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It’s Just Fiction

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. Continue reading

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Parsing XML in ColdFusion

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. Continue reading

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ArrayCollection to XML in ActionScript3

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. Continue reading

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Shift + Paradigm = Rebrand

Well it looks like a logo redesign is in order for guiroo. (Oooo, a good opportunity to use some of those new typefaces.) It seems that the nature of the web is changing and the visual of a kangaroo is … Continue reading

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Everybody’s Workin’ On The Weekend

To all the people that have been giving me smack about … I haven’t had time to post until now because at the last minute on Friday, the business mentioned something that changed the entire application flow that I had … Continue reading

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