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So I have been doing quite a bit of work lately with continuous integration and auto-builds using Hudson (which I am really liking).  And one of my goals is to have applications abstracted in such a way that the same build that is used for local development can also be used in QA, staging and deployment, but be fed different settings appropriate for each environment.  That way when you addressing issues that seem to always crop up when you deploy to live, you don’t have to wonder what’s different between the different builds you would normally have to make to incorporate the varying environment settings.

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written by Mac at 12:41 am, Jan 12, 2011 \\ tags: Actionscript, AIR, FlashVars, Flex, FlightXD, Hudson

So the other day I was using a DataGrid to show a data-set from an ArrayCollection, and I thought a great visual cue would be to highlight specific rows based upon the data like this:

But after digging and searching through the docs, discovered to my surprise that the DataGrid component did not have this capability. So I did what every good developer does first, and started Googling, expecting to find someone who had faced this problem and solved it. Continue reading »

written by Mac at 1:02 am, Jan 9, 2008 \\ tags: Actionscript 3, AS3, ColoredDataGrid, Custom Component, DataGrid, Flex