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A quick sorry to all my Flex readership for the lack of Flex related posts these last few months. I though I would drop a quick tip / class I often use to create a two way binding between a form to a corresponding class model. Flex provides a one way binding through its <mx:Binding>...

I recently needed to setup recurring payments through PayPal's express checkout for a subscription based site I have writen using Ruby on Rails. There is already an excellent framework for interacting with most payment gateways, including PayPal, for Ruby called Active Merchant. Unfortunately recurring payments support in Active Merchant for PayPal Express Checkout is limited...

This may be an unusual first post in my Objective-C and Cocoa categories however it is quite relevant as the guys behind 280 Slides have released a new open source extension to the Javascript language known as Objective-J and a new Javascript framework based on Cocoa named Cappuccino. Other than having a very nice logo...

A quick tip if you have a dynamic scroll bar and want to bind it's maxScrollPosition to a value at runtime unfortunately you can't use the MXML binding, i.e. maxScrollPosition={value}. Alternatively you need to set the value programatically in an event handler, AND importantly call updateDisplayList() on the scrollbar. i.e. <!--[CDATA[ private function handleSlideChange():void {...

EasyMVC is a lightweight architecture process for Adobe Flex and AIR first proposed by Tom Bray of SearchCoders and Chatopica. This is the second part covering Service calls, of a two part article on how to take that architecture and scale up to a simplified cairngorm style architecture when you outgrown EasyMVC. Click here to...

EasyMVC is an excellent, easy to use Model View Controller architecture for Adobe Flex designed by Tom Bray from Chatopica. However as your apps grow you may find yourself outgrowing this architecture. For example as all your event handlers are centralised into one class, this class may get to large to maintain, especially as the...

Just to let you all know I have updated WP-Flcikr, making it compatible with WordPress 2.5 As part of the update, I have fixed the following: Compatibility with WordPress 2.5 Issue where users without curl installed would get an error authenticating Updated the style to match WordPress 2.5 AJAX enabled the plugin to stop the...

WP-Flickr is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add photos from Flickr to your posts, without leaving the WordPress write post / page editor. Browse your Flickr photostream, sets or favorites and select to insert into the page. As part of a recent project, we needed to develop a custom WordPress plugin for our...