Marcos Placona on December 24th, 2009

Reading time: < 1 minute The first Flex 4 book (Hello! Flex 4) has just been released this month in the UK. I haven’t read it yet, so no way I could give any reviews on it, but from the interwebs, I can see it’s contents are really good. A must buy for the festive [...]

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Marcos Placona on December 8th, 2009

Formatting dates with flex
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I’ve been working with some Adobe Flex recently, and was having some trouble formatting dates. For those who don’t know, here (in th UK) we use the format “dd/mm/yyyy” (Day/Month/Year) as opposed to people over in the States using “mm/dd/yyyy” (Month/Day/Year).

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Marcos Placona on March 5th, 2009

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes I have just came across this very nice service which promises to write Regular Expressions for you. We all know how painful writing a regular expression can be, and on this website, you can not only have the pattern created for you, but also have it translated into the [...]

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Marcos Placona on February 24th, 2009

Reading time: < 1 minute Just as a follow up to my last post, I just wanted to put this quick note here to tell everybody that all the venues for Scotch on the Rocks Road 2009 have been confirmed. You can also download your Speaker, Attendee, Drinker or Fanboy badges here, and put them [...]

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Marcos Placona on March 21st, 2007

Reading time: < 1 minute I’m just studying a little bit of Flex and Action Script 3. Basically to be able to build some tiny gadgets using Apollo. While building one of them, I came up with the following function: private function capFirst(txt:String):String{     var str:String = txt;     var aSTR:Array = str.split(” “);     var i:int;     var uString:String; [...]

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