REALbasic and Snow Leopard: Redraw what?!

January 14th, 2010

A customer has tasked me with updating some of the UI elements in their application. Among the problems they listed was a redraw bug in Snow Leopard, where the controls on windows with a set background color would display a slightly different color in their background even with the Composite property set to True. After about an hour of testing different workarounds, I found what I believe to be an excellent solution.
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A weekend with C#

September 7th, 2009

I’ve spent the majority of my time this weekend learning the finer points of design in C#, and I have to say that I’m quite impressed.
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RB: Hate that flicker

August 30th, 2009

I’m currently working on a project for a client that requires a cross-platform UI class which is pretty standard. It has working alternatives on Windows, Mac, Linux, and anything else you can think of. They want a certain style within the application, regardless of OS, and I don’t blame them for it.
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JS: Multiple lines in a cookie

August 24th, 2009

Coming from my buddy Shawn over at Lyme Team is an easy way to store multiple lines of data in a single cookie!
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PHP: SQL2XML

August 23rd, 2009

This bit of code will connect to a MySQL database, run the passed query, and return the results as XML. I wrote this for use with FLEX, and it works quite well.
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