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November 2009
I’ve finally had a chance to dive in to Flex 4. One trick I learned is incredibly powerful. CSS is a powerful way to specify
August 2009
In An Army of Small Libraries I suggested creating a site that indexes every known bit of reusable Actionscript code in existe
 
Ted Patrick, known on twitter as @adobeted , recently released two interesting as3 libraries: FDOT and Tubes . This is not uni
 
Having your app keep a detailed log can be indispensable for figuring out tricky user-reported bugs. This is easy on the server-si
 
MVC is all the rage. Choosing a framework, however, is not so easy. The view part of a standard php MVC framework usually involv
 
This class and script makes it easy to turn a one-shot php script into a daemon that runs in the background on a timer. This is go
July 2009
This is part 2 of my Sinatra blog tutorial. Today I’m talking about the database layer. Don’t forget to check out the
 
Building a navigation system in Flex is harder than it should be. Trying to figure out how to decouple your navigation model from
 
Something I learned how to do in rails, but had a hard time replicating without it, is create a custom helper that accepts a block
 
My blog has been going through a state of flux lately. I hadn’t posted in a couple of months, and when I discovered postero
 
I decided to write a tutorial about what I learned while writing this blog. We’ll be using Sinatra . Download my blog
June 2009
I’ve used ActiveRecord and similar ORMs in a variety of languages, but I have never seen a framework as elegant as Gabor de

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