http://ramblingsof.justinwinkler.com My thoughts (facts) on everything Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:06:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Turns out in order for HTML links in the htmltext property of Label/Text to work (both by using a direct link to a URL or by using the 'link' event), 'selectable' must be set to to true. Dumb. Especially considering when it's set to false, the links still give you ... http://ramblingsof.justinwinkler.com/flex-label-linkability In a current project of mine, I needed to capture when a user clicks on a DataGrid header to sort it (to track the column and sort order). The only good event to listen to is "headerRelease". However, if you just add a declarative event listener to the DataGrid, you'll ... http://ramblingsof.justinwinkler.com/capturing-datagrid-sort Suppose for some reason you have an ArrayCollection that will contain a set of Strings that you want to have sorted. Then, you'd like to add an entry to the beginning and another at the end, but you don't necessarily want the sort to apply. var collection:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection(["a","z","m"]); collection.sort = ... http://ramblingsof.justinwinkler.com/arraycollection-sort-and-embelish Evidently, squirrels hate Boulevard. Who knew? http://ramblingsof.justinwinkler.com/coming-soon-squirrel-stew Well, it didn't turn out as well as I would have liked, however it turned out better than I thought I was capable of. :) Unlit: Lit (with our black cat Poco behind): http://ramblingsof.justinwinkler.com/amateur-pumpkin-carving Oh the joys of owning a house! $18 more dollars I wouldn't have had to spend had I lived in an apartment! Anyway, the washer was draining too fast, and thus overflowing the drain pipe. I found a good solution at FixItNow.com, which includes draining directly into one fork of a ... http://ramblingsof.justinwinkler.com/washer-drain-fun We recently upgraded from rubygems 0.9.x to 1.2.0. Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be a working service init script for this new version, so I had to hand-craft a basic one to start/stop the service. You'll find it below in all its glory (and probably under/incorrectly-implemented as I am in ... http://ramblingsof.justinwinkler.com/gem-server-init-script If you've done much in flex, you may have used the "..." notation in a method signature to indicate that the function takes a dynamic number of arguments, such as: private function doIt( ...args ):void ... then called the method: doIt( 1 ) doIt( 1, 2 ) doIt( "some", "other", "stuff" ) The question is this: ... http://ramblingsof.justinwinkler.com/forwarding-a-dynamic-argument-rest-array-in-flex Math in programming just generally sucks. I come from a mainly Java background, and recently I've been using Ruby. But in both cases, the statement holds true. I know this isn't really a new problem, but for god's sake, it's 2007; why is it still a problem? Using Ruby, let's suppose we ... http://ramblingsof.justinwinkler.com/when-crap-just-doesnt-add-up