Archive for June, 2009

Flex DateFormatter bug, missing January 1970 month name

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Today, while working on a small piece of code I discovered something that appears to be a DateFormatter bug. I was using following DateFormatter: [sourcecode lang='as3'] private var formatter:DateFormatter = new DateFormatter(); … formatter.formatString = “MMMM”; [/sourcecode] to display just the month names. I didn’t really care about the year when constructing new Date so [...]

Flex DataGridColumn width set to the longest value of that column

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

There was an interesting question on stackoverflow.com today. Some unnamed user asked: Can we change the width of the datagrid column dynamically by clicking on the border of the column in order to display the complete string which is too long to be displayed and needs to be scrolled ? If so, How ?Also, how [...]

XMLSocket.send / Socket.writeUTFBytes doesn’t work?

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Disclamer In first words – no, of course it is not broken, it is working fine. But there is a specific issue with these two methods when the socket server is implemented incorrectly. I noticed I’ve been looking for the solution using these phrases and that’s why the post it titled like that. I just [...]

Google Wave – Microsoft OneNote anyone?

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Right… just before SotR09 London I can’t get sleep. I just watched the Google Wave recording from Google I/O. After 5 minutes I had this feeling I’ve seen it somewhere already…, think, think! And BING ;) It was Microsoft OneNote. All that real-time typing capabilities, dropping images, commenting is already in OneNote. Until I see [...]