Rants About Software

[Originally published 06/04/08]

I've been messing with Adobe Flex quite a bit for the past few months, and so far it's awesome! However, I was recently working on a small application when I ran into a weird issue. Now I'm not sure if this is an issue with Flex, ActionScript 3.0, or maybe it's just something that I did wrong, but here's what's happening.

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[Originally published 02/08/08]

There is an urban legend in the IT world about a screen saver called Dazzle. Basically it's a bunch of colorful, seemingly-random, geometric shapes that form on the screen. Dazzle has the ability to keep a viewers attention for long periods of time. This is where the myths come in.

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