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Entries from November 14th, 2008

Flex/Flash navigation link problems in Mac OS X

November 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Flex, Mac OS X

I’ve had one of the weirdest problems last week when a friend reported that our newly designed navigation menu created in Flex was not working on her MacBook.
Basically, I had a couple of moving Flex Canvas’s where I attached mouse click events.

private function homeClicked(evt:MouseEvent):void {
getURL('/');
}

private function updatesClicked(evt:MouseEvent):void {
getURL('/category/updates');
}

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The Secret to a Successful Website

November 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Books

Got an email today from Manning with the new sets of books due next year.
One of them was of particular interest, the Website Owner’s manual.
I’ve been a web developer for a number of years but mainly focusing on backend technologies.
So it goes without saying that I do not have much experience in managing a site.
The [...]

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