Through My Lenses

Walked in and heard: “if you get nothing else from this session. it should be USE VERSION CONTROL” Well then. Nice to hear it again. CompareNoCase – leads to comparing two things. worse CF function ever. “if something is true, then its false. that will blow your mind.” Breaking down if’s into multiple rather than [...]

I had heard about these conferences for quite some time but this is the first one that I have attended. It definitely lived up to everything I’ve heard and will definitely be back! I like that it rotates and can’t wait for which town I will attend in next! I took numerous photowalks and here [...]

The why?!? CF request/response applications Flex RIA persisted data is not refreshed automatically stateful approach to managing data – no more sessions refreshed through manual client interactions or AS Flex Real-time Apps persisted data is refreshed via interactions w/ server stateful approach w/ server side sync refreshed through polling, long polling, or RTMP data management [...]

History Rehabilitation Act – 1973 you can’t discriminate based on disability Section 508 – 1998 required federal agencies to make their technology accessible to people with disabilities any group that gets money from the federal government also falls under this ie. universities, benefits, http://section508.gov/ Principles of accessibility (developed by WCAG) perceivable operable understandable robust Compliance [...]

What is skinning? graphical – quick and easy files from Creative Suite. nice for distribution (Scale Nine) programmatic – not style-able with CSS, animation limited to component itself, inflexible when acting as a generic skin stateful – not really a skinning style programmatic skinning provides the power to create a skin that is just as [...]