The first 100 Flashbelt Tickets are going for a sale price of $279. Flashbelt is a yearly conference held in Minneapolis, Minnesota and focuses on RIA development. Confirmed speakers include: James Patterson (presstube), Hoss Gifford, Mario Klingemann (quasimondo), Joa Ebert, Seb Lee-Delisle (plug-in media), Drew Trujillo (dr. woohoo), Lisa Larson-Kelley, Geoff Stearns (youtube), Jeremy Thorp […]
10 Steps to Improve Your Online Presence
I’ve read a number of blog posts about 10 things not to do or 6 reasons why you should do something and I’m finally giving in to the idea of an ordered list as a blog post. One of the pitfalls of the ordered list approach is that everyone is different. The only way everyone […]
Skinning Flex Components – Part 1: CSS
This will be a three part series on skinning Flex components. For part one I have chosen to desolve the myth that Flex 3 can’t truly cascade styles. This three part series will start simple and get more complex with each post. You can use this code to mimic descendant selectors, dimensioning and multiple class […]
Validate Twitter Credentials in AIR
Problem: Your AIR application needs to validate the username / password and handle failure gracefully within the application. If the user enters the wrong information you do not want them to be prompted with a windows prompt asking them to enter their Twitter username / password. If the application needs to hold on to the […]