I decided to delve into the world of WordPress plugin development this week. I’m a contributor to a site for film camera gear and we have a page that lists equipment for sale. We wanted to pull in an RSS feed from eBay and display it on a page. There seems to be a WordPress [...]
Phreeze Running as a Joomla Component
Our company has decided on Joomla to manage our primary website, however we’ve been writing code using our own Phreeze framework for several years and have a lot of time invested in these applications. We’re now trying to integrate all of our web properties and provide single sign-on, which is a challenging task. It occurred [...]
Install WordPress 3 with Multiple Domains
WordPress 3 now includes the features that were previously available as WordPress MU. “MU” stands for Multi-User (or Multi-Site) and this lets you to run multiple blogs all from a single WordPress installation. This walk-through will help you configure WordPress to manage multiple sites, each with their own second-level domain (SLD). As you go through [...]
Forcing a Flex VBox to scroll when necessary
The VBox Flex container allows you to stack objects vertically. If your VBox can have an unknown number of children and your app is not a fixed height, a weird behavior can occur where the VBox height expands beyond the height of it’s parent. This usually causes scroll-bars to appear in unexpected places and possibly [...]
Adding and Removing Children from a Flex XMLList
I seem to always forget how this is done and for whatever reason there’s a lot of posts floating around with confusing information. The XMLList doesn’t have any methods for adding and removing items, or even obtaining items at a specific index. Adding and removing children from an XMLList in Flex is actually simple, though. [...]
