I was doing a little work today and believe it or not, there aren't many posts online related to creating Flex Tag Clouds. I found a couple with the most helpful being on <a href="http://www.glodde.com/blog/default.aspx?id=1&amp;amp;t=Basic-Flex-TagCloud-Component" title="Brian Glodde's blog"... [More]

I recently decided to contact Time Warner Cable to inquire about starting service for a Dedicated IP Address.  Since I was in a hurry, I decided to try out their "Chat with Representative" service.  Let me be the first to recommend you NEVER attempt to get anything valuable from a Chat Ses... [More]

After suffering through the past 2 years with our Motorola Droids, my wife and I decided to take a few minutes tonight and drive to the Verizon store to see if all the hype over the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was true.  Let me be the first to tell you, it is ALL true.  IMHO, this is by far the g... [More]

I thought it was worth posting this link since each time I need to create am .ico file, I end up having to search Google.  I have tried the plugin and it works quite well.  The plugin was created by the good folks at Telegraphics and can be downloaded at http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/ ... [More]

Ran across another instance of the dreaded Error 2032: Stream error today and upon tracing I discovered the cause. I'm consuming a web service that gets passed a criteria object consisting of numbers, booleans, and strings, however, all values are optional and on the .Net side are nullable. Upon t... [More]

I've faced a similar problem in the past and the solution I finally decided on was to either use the external api to fire off a new browser tab using javascript or to use the popup manager to bring up a popup window within your Flex application. Using the external interface would only really ... [More]

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 Flex application, you want to be able to re... [More]

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 multitude of d... [More]