Hello from Mexico City. It's been a few years since I was last here, and I'm glad to be back in this huge, vibrant, hectic, energetic, intense, fun city. I am writing this while looking out of my hotel window over beautiful historic Chapultepec Park (last time I was here I got the opportunity to...
I've been spending quite a bit of time in FlexBuilder lately, and have started to rely extensively on some shortcuts. Some of these are actually Eclipse shortcuts, but regardless, these are some of my favorite: Ctrl-F11: Run F11: Debug Ctrl-Alt-Down: Repeat current line Alt-Up: Move line (or...
Registration is not open yet, but the basic MAX 2006 page is now online, and you can subscribe to MAX e-mails so that you'll be the first to know when registration does open and when more details are available.
Yesterday I need a Flex cell renderer that would change the background color based on the value of the cell (for example, green if a positive number and red if negative). Unfortunately, background color is not a style, that would have been the simplest option. The solution is to use ActionScript...
Item renderers are the key to customizing just about any Flex controls. If you want numbers in a data grid column to be green or red (based on whether they are positive or negative), you use a cell renderer. If you want list items to be displayed on multiple lines with data from multiple fields...
The U.S. Senate Office of the Sergeant at Arms (in Washington, D.C.) contacted me to share that their ColdFusion/XML/Flex/.NET team has an opening for a very senior principal position. They're looking for someone with extensive experience in ColdFusion, XML, OOP, frameworks and lots of Project...
Rob Gonda e-mailed me to say that he, too, is looking for experienced ColdFusion developers to work at iChameleon Group based in Hollywood, FL. OOP experience is required, as is Flash Remoting. You'll get to work with Rob, an added bonus which should make the positions more appealing. But if not,...
National Geographic's MapMachine is not just another interactive map. Sure, you can find addresses and zoom in and out and all of the stuff we've seen before. But this one lets you apply themes - color coding by population density, weather (averages and special events), boundaries, significant...
SearchWebServices.com is running a story on Spry (currently available on Labs ), complete with an explanation by Kevin Lynch on why Spry is needed.
Allana Botha of CBIZ Human Capital Advisory Services (a recruiting firm) contacted me to let me know that a client is looking for a couple of senior ColdFusion developers (strong CFML and SQL skills required, and more) in the Fort Lauderdale, FL area. Contact KG@CBIZjobs.com .