http://flexfusion.archfamily.com Flex, AIR, ColdFusion, and everything in between Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:31:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It was a tough decision for me, but I just started a new job at KForce I had some good friends at eAutoclaims, and the coding was always something new, but hopefully I'll be able to keep my skills in Flex by writing my own code at home, or perhaps ... http://flexfusion.archfamily.com/2008/06/new-job/ I had previously written a regular expression that adds extra space within parentheses, so (test) would become ( test ). However, this gets more complex the more parentheses that are added to the mix. ((test)) and (((test))) require a much more complex regex statement to work correctly (and ... http://flexfusion.archfamily.com/2008/05/adding-space-before-and-after-parentheses/ A coworker of mine has created a drag 'n' drop component that allows dragging between 2 items (base component is a ListBase, so it allows for greater flexibility of the list dataProviders). Today I needed to enable or disable the list components, but all it could do was disable ... http://flexfusion.archfamily.com/2008/04/the-supplied-index-is-out-of-bounds-image-instantiation/ Whenever I'm coding I like things just so :) I'm pretty sure it's a very mild case of OCD as it really does bug me when things are different. Not so much that I get any kind of other disorders from this, but enough that I want to ... http://flexfusion.archfamily.com/2008/04/regular-expressions-are-fun/ Up until a couple of months ago, I had not really used the regular expression Find/Replace in Eclipse. I'd read several blog posts about it, but hadn't really played around with it much. This all changed after I was, once again, manually replacing some items in Eclipse (setting multiple properties ... http://flexfusion.archfamily.com/2008/04/regular-expressions-in-flex-builder/ Back in January I saw Brian Kotek's post about returning typed structs to Flex. When I first read this article, I wasn't sure how useful it was (I guess I was getting a little confused with the addition of Transfer and AOP in the article, and figured it was just ... http://flexfusion.archfamily.com/2008/04/returning-typed-objects-to-flex-from-coldfusion/ Lately there has been some strangeness with the Adobe livedocs for Flex. Every now and then the page will just constantly reload in a never ending cycle. This seems to only be happening on on the Flex 3 livedocs. Update: Looks like the Flex Doc Team will be fixing the ... http://flexfusion.archfamily.com/2008/04/weirdness-with-livedocs/ Well, sort of... ColdFusion has a very nice "isDate()" function that allows you to pass in a variety of formats, and check whether the passed in value is a date. I had been searching for something similar in Flex, but had very little success until I started playing around with ... http://flexfusion.archfamily.com/2008/04/isdate-function-for-flexfound/ I have started to copy over some of my blog posts from ColdFusion Community in order to keep everything that I'm typing localized in one spot.  Hopefully this will save me from having to search 2 places when I'm trying to figure out an answer to something I've already solved ... http://flexfusion.archfamily.com/2008/04/deja-vu/ Yay me! The guys over at pxl designs ran a contest today that gave away 3 copies of their excellent Flex 2 certification practice exam, Attest, for free to anyone who answered 3 flex questions correctly. Apparently they were only medium difficulty as I was able to ... http://flexfusion.archfamily.com/2008/04/i-won-a-copy-of-attest/