IE7 bug: Link Inside of Div Wiggles on MouseOver

23. February 2010 15:50
I've been looking at a bug in IE7 where mousing over link inside of a div causes a "wiggle."  Needless to say, this wiggle is highly irritating, especially when the div and the link has its margin and padding explicitly set to "0."  The problem is compounded becau... [More]

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Collapsible Panel with .Net DataGrid. Overflow Property breaks DOM. Causes 'Spillage'

18. February 2010 16:35
So I've been looking at a recent problem and trying to come up with an elegant solution.  I'll need to give a little background.  I found a legacy component that had originally been coded using HTML 4.0 and seemed to work fine.  Recently, we migrated to the XHTML1.0 standard... [More]

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Software Architecture: Real-Life Facade

17. December 2009 16:02
A while ago I worked on a project where we had a single client that had multiple products.  Each product required its own product site including a shopping site for the products.  Upon discussing the options with the client, who was not fond of the idea of having to track and maintain a ... [More]

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Flash API for Google Maps

13. December 2009 12:17

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Windows 7 Review: Another Bloated Bundle

10. November 2009 10:19
After years of working on my old single core HP laptop running Windows XP, I finally reached a point where I needed more power for multi-tasking.  Every fiber in my being said, "Shawn, go spend twice the money and get yourself a Macbook Pro.  You'll be happier with the performan... [More]

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Runtime Localization in Flex WITHOUT Compiling Resource Bundles

4. November 2009 11:02
It's been awhile since I've posted and most of that has been due to being incredibly busy at work... and preparing for the release of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.  Of course, I have to get my PS3 time here and there where I can as it has become a rarity.  The work stuff has inv... [More]

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Papervision 3D and .flv video

29. September 2009 21:35
I've seen some really good Papervision 3D walkthroughs that deal with various material creation and interaction.  I haven't, however, come across many that deal specifically with using .flv format files as your MovieMaterial.  For some background, check out some of these links to... [More]

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Using Javascript to animate a resize effect for a div containing Adobe Flex / Flash

23. July 2009 12:12
So props to my buddy Blaise for helping me on this.  I also want to mention a post that was helpful in getting started:  http://danielmclaren.net/2008/04/expanding-resizing-a-flash-swf-using-javascript Scenario:  Using width="100%" height="100%" for your Fle... [More]

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Setting the height/width in IE6 for Flex

14. July 2009 08:46
So we got ready to launch one of our new products yesterday and one of my team members found an issue rendering my Flex in IE6.  Here's a little background, rick set up a modal window to pull in the flex app and found that Flex was not rendering in IE6 when the modal fired.  He spent... [More]

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Hobnox

9. July 2009 14:30
A couple months ago, I began playing with an amazingly addictive application from Andre Michelle known as ToneMatrix.  I posted it here for you to play with.  While reading the notes about ToneMatrix, Andre spoke of a new beta application called Hobnox.  Hobnox is an online music ge... [More]

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Flash 4 Styling: Know your Namespaces

18. June 2009 20:41
One difference between Flex 3 and Flex 4 is the extensive usage of namespaces.  Anyone who has used Flex 3 is familiar with namespaces on the most cursory level in the application tag as xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml."  Creating custom components resulted in new name... [More]

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Adobe Flex Builder is now beta Flash Builder 4

2. June 2009 19:41
After a long wait the newest version of the Adobe Flex IDE has been released in beta.  Flex Builder is now called Flash Builder 4 and boasts several new features, mainly: designer/developer workflow data-centric development IDE productivity and testi... [More]

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Flex itemRenderer: using "outerDocument"

2. June 2009 17:50
I discovered a neat little trick today on the topic of inline item renderers for Flex components.  Let's say you have a property that you need to access, but that property is not part of the data object that is passed to the renderer.  Something like this: <?xml... [More]

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Heat Maps: Open Source Courtesy of Michael VanDaniker

22. April 2009 12:34
Came upon this fantastic demo and source code today from Michael VanDaniker.  Over the past few months, ever since Universal Mind launched their Spatial Key application, I have become fascinated with heat maps within Flex applications.   I have been able to find some pretty decent demo&#... [More]

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Flex Chart: Column Chart with Multiple Column Item Trend Line

7. April 2009 09:48
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE ... [More]

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