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I've got an application that displays user notes in a GridPanel. These notes tend to be very long, but the default style for a cell is white-space: nowrap, which prevents word wrapping the contents. Sometimes simply expanding the column in the UI is...

I was writing some code this morning for a demo application, and I kept getting an error in one part of my Flex code and I just couldn’t figure out what the hell was going on. Turned out, it was a symptom of how many different function declaration...

It’s been a bit hectic at work in the last 2 years. Well, perhaps hectic isn’t the perfect word, but it’s close. Since I started working here, we’ve gone through two complete development technology stack switches. Back in the halcyon days of...

Social Media Bollocks!

July 23, 2010 | In: errata

A few weeks ago I was at a gathering of like-minded technologists in my area, and I struck up a quick (thankfully) conversation with a fellow who, in all seriousness, labeled himself a Social Media Ninja. He just let it hang there for a second, waiting...

My inspiration for this article is a conference call I had today with some teammates on a project at work. As usual, there's a couple application developers, the project manager, throw in a couple QA folks, a BA, etc. This is a complementary article to...

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