UPDATE: I don’t actually follow this technique because, although I feel it is technically correct, nobody seems to do it and Adobe doesn’t really seem to fix related glitches in this approach (possibly because they don’t want you to do it this way). But anyway, read on if you are interested in an alternate approach to updating [...]
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Working with dates in Flex AIR and SQLite
UPDATE 3/25/09: Paul Robertson from the AIR team stopped by and writes that declaring your SQLite column affinity (ie column type) as “DATE” will instruct AIR to handle all date conversions for you automatically. The problems I experienced mainly surfaced in a DataGrid when using a DateField and I have not had a chance to [...]
Ridiculous date formatting in SQLite
The following code outputs a SQLite date into a standard date format with month abbreviations that, believe it or not, Flex/AIR will accept as a Date value (Though SQLite itself doesn’t recognize it as a valid DATETIME!). I created this atrocious code while trying to figure out the mysterious interaction between AIR and SQLite date [...]
Delete an unused workspace from Flex Builder 3
Flex Builder 3 (ie Eclipse) keeps a running list of your most recently used workspaces and presents them when you select “Switch Workspace” If you’ve moved stuff around or were experimenting, you’re likely to have a few workspaces listed there that you don’t want. To my knowledge there’s no setting you can clear this list [...]
Flex FlipCard Component
UPDATE: There is a more recent post about the FlipCard FlipCard is a component for Flex 3 that allows you to put content on two sides of a 3D “card” and flip between the front and back. The compiled library as well as full source code can be downloaded from the project page on google.com. [...]
