It comes to my attention that my lexicon both as a developer and as an individual sometimes confuses people. I decided to create a simple entry in my blog to push out all the common phrases I use to allow others (clients, coworkers, etc) see where I am coming from. Some of these are official and some are just my own Wally-isms..but here is my list. Check back often, I tend to make stuff up.

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This is probably a simple explaination, but I was having a small problem with this on one of my applications and took some digging to find a solution. So I thought I would post the simple answer for my future reference and for anyone else. How to add a 'Please choose.." into the first position of a combobox that is populated by an ArrayCollection.

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Even though the American public has been always protrayed as lazy, it is amazing to me to see it in real life. Forever I seen us being referred to as fat, lazy, and obnoxious, but I always felt like this was a stereotype. Guess there ARE stereotypes for a reason.

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Coming from ColdFusion, I knew that if I needed to place a record field on the page for, lets say, a detail page, All I had to do was place it inside of a <cfoutput> tag and surround it with pund signs. When coming to Flex and MXML, I had a small learning curve. I found when setting the returned query to an ArrayCollection, it wasn't as simple as petData.petName. Surprisingly, I had a difficult time finding someone who could give me a straight answer. Course, maybe I was just asking the wrong question.

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I have a web site where I spawned a new TitleWindow pop up to offer the user a form to add a new record to the database. The parent was a module that had a DataGrid listing all the records. I wanted to, when the record was finished inserting, to close the window and broadcast to the parent that it was completed so the DataGrid would refresh itself and show the new record. Using a Custom Event, I got it to work.

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