An Old Framework and Code Reuse
I recently tried to go around our company’s PHP framework to implement some features that just couldn’t be added by doing things the right way. The whole thing was kind of a failure. I learned that, even though its a crappy old proprietary-to-us framework, I should still try to use it instead of going off [...]
Flex DataGrid Bug/Annoyance
So, I guess simply put, when you click on a DataGrid column, you can’t tell what the real column index is of the column that you clicked on. Sure you get the event.columnIndex, but that value is the index of visible columns in the datagrid. There isn’t a way to tell what that index value [...]
Still trying to get it right….
If you ask me, this all started with one little bug. Our customer has a report that automatically selects sales locations to visit, and they wanted to put all of the auto-selected locations at the top of the list, instead of scattered throughout the report. Sure! Sounds easy! Unless the report is one giant while [...]
Rush To Market! Then Restore From Backup…
Like all great products, ours was thrown together quick and shoddy to be presented by somebody who hasn’t used it to a client who doesn’t want it. I expect that I’ll have a list of questions delivered to me later in the week, and given a 10 minute window to answer them all. If I’m [...]
Does IE Make Me A Better Web Developer?
For most of the day I’ve been working on making sure my company’s web application will work on both FireFox and Internet Explorer. I developed it for FireFox, and it works great. Internet Explorer, on the other hand, is totally broken. Obviously my first reaction is to curse the non standard IE browser, rant and [...]
