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Removing scroll arrows from the list component

Kenneth Lejnieks — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:24:12 +0000

A quick example on skinning the List component in Flex 3 to remove the scroll arrows and modify the track skin and thumb. This can of course be further skinned to look better but the concept is there.

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Crawling in my skin: Flex Skinning Links

Kenneth Lejnieks — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:05:53 +0000

Just a quick list of some links for skinning in flex, programmatic, graphic, or what have you. Ill be updating this list here and there as I consolidate more links.

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Mounting an external USB drive in Ubuntu

Kenneth Lejnieks — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:18:35 +0000

I have an Ubuntu server that I wanted to add an external USB hardrive to. The external drive is a standard Western Digital MyBook 250gb drive. I plugged it into the back of my server in a free usb port and figured it would be plug an play... no dice!

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Plotting 10,000 assets on a canvas

Kenneth Lejnieks — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:46:44 +0000

As a poc for a project im working on plotting assets on a GIS map I wrote this quick poc to see how flex would handle a large amount of plotted images or assets on stage. (more...)

Talk to your view through your command

Kenneth Lejnieks — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:17:04 +0000

Admittedly, this is something I have grappled with for quite some time now, and apparently I'm not the only one. This is by no means a hot topic but for my own purposes, and as I venture deeper into the world of "Best Practices" and the pursuit of architectural sanity I felt that this was worth a post. (more...)