Smashed Apples by Brian Holmes

Quick note on my europe trip

Spent the last two weeks in Europe and had a very excellent time. No “news” for those of you who might want to ask. I’ll explain myself later.

At any rate, for some background, I spent some time in 2001–2002 in Europe going to school in Paris and made alot of good friends. They are almost all IT developers/designers/managers and I found it quite odd that the big thing they talked about was whether or not “you were on facebook”. I mentioned twitter a few times and pretty much no one knew what i was talking about except a few people.  Things like friendfeed and brightkite where also unheard of and there was no equivalent those sort of emerging new networking sites that catered to French speaking people. Also, flex was well known but not widely adopted. Most of my French friends said that they were looking into using those technologies. Not sure if there is one, but Adobe needs a French speaking flex evangelist. (hint, hint).

A few other things of note is that the food there is still excellent if you know how to order. There seems to be twice as many “Metro Weirdos” than when I lived there and somehow I got some motivation to start a Cave.

 

 

Headed to Europe, Need Guest Blogger.

I’m headed to Europe for two weeks. I won’t be blogging but would be open for most anyone who would like to guest blog for me. If you keep a technology blog, email me a post. I’ll be checking email. I would be grateful and hopefully be able to return the favor in the future.

Cheers,

Brian..

Tags: personal, guest+blogger

Flex BreadCrumb Navigator with Degrafa

I was able to catch a degrafa connect session last month in Denver and have been tinkering part time with the framework since then and I had a need to put together a bread crumb (like-ish) navigator so I decided try and use degrafa skinning to get a better look and feel, and it was surprisingly easy! Go Team.

At any rate, this was my first attempt at a BreadCrumbNavigator. I used ComboBox’s, because the lists are gonna have to be filter-able, but for now that code isn’t complete, yet. And also parts of the style is defined in the skins, so I’ll pull them out.

Here’s an example.  Here’s the code.

Learn about Degrafa here.

Tags: degrafa, breadcrumb, flex, component

Displaying Character Codes in Flex

If you are capturing keyboard events and want to display the Character Code as Text all you need to do is use String.fromCharCode( …charCodes ) as in the following:

private function  keyDownHandler(event:KeyboardEvent):void

{

textInput.text = String.fromCharCode( event.keyCode );

}

 

Don’t you just love searching and searching for something that should be real simple and then feel like this:

 

 

Tags: Character+Codes