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Bicycle Dashboard Update

By barneyb on July 3, 2007

I made some mods to my bicycle reporting dashboard last night and just pushed them live.  Highlights include being able to break down the charts by bike, route, or day of week, legends to support showing multiple series, control over the chart baseline (zero or autodetect), and formatting of the "elapsed time" axis labels.
Now that [...]

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Fun with Flash on Linux

By barneyb on July 2, 2007

So I got home this evening and wanted to record my commute with my new logger app, and guess what, it crashes Firefox. Roughly one-in-four loads of the app are successful, other attempts cause a segfault as the player tries to load the SWF. It seems to work better in SeaMonkey, but still [...]

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Bicycle Goodies (i.e. Info Porn)

By barneyb on July 2, 2007

While on my seemingly endless airplane rides, I finished up a first draft of my bicycle reporting app, and made it available at the seemingly random address of http://www.barneyb.com/bicycle/.  ; )  Yes, it's Flex, and yes, I chose that platform of my own volition.  It's still a little rough around the edges, but it's all [...]

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I Went Wii!

By barneyb on July 2, 2007

Much to Heather's delight, I returned home from CFUNITED this weekend with a Wii for her to play with.  And much to my delight, I cracked open Zelda:Twilight Princess again for the first time in a few months.  Can't play the GameCube version with the Wii controller (have to use the GameCube controller), but other [...]

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Joe Says "Codpiece"

By barneyb on June 28, 2007

Joe Rinehart says that the codpiece is coming back. A huge proponent of genital decoration/protection, he managed to create a custom codpiece from his CFUNITED nametag. Truly an ingenious man. Next year we expect to see him sporting an authentic period 'piece.

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Calling all Gaget (Specifically GPS) Geeks

By barneyb on June 25, 2007

I'm trying to find a GPS unit for myself, and am struggling. I figured since my blog has a fairly technical audience of varied backgrounds, there's probably a bunch of people out there reading who might offer some insight. Here are the specifics of what I'm looking for, in decreasing order of [...]

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Another Flex Weirdness/Gotcha

By barneyb on June 23, 2007

Another little gotcha to watch out for with Flex.  If you have an ArrayCollection of Objects that are backing a DataGrid, you can add/remove objects from the ArrayCollection and the DataGrid will update.  However, updating properties on the objects doesn't seem to update the DataGrid until you force a redraw via some other means (e.g. [...]

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List/ComboBox Row Backgrounds in Flex

By barneyb on June 22, 2007

All the listy components in Flex (List, Datagrid, Tree, etc.) have a protected method called drawRowBackground which is in charge of drawing the background for a given row. You typically use it to color a given row based on some facet of the data the row represents (e.g. red background for rows with a [...]

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My New Bike

By barneyb on June 22, 2007

Got my new bike yesterday and rode it to work this morning.  Whee!  Definitely needs some tuning (seat height, handlebar placement, dérailleur tension, etc.), but it's quite nice.  Integrated shifting alone is huge.  I'll get a pic some time and post it, but for now, it's all for me.  ;)

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Las Vegas WTF

By barneyb on June 20, 2007

Saw this on The Daily WTF / Worse Than Failure: Crashing Las Vegas.  Good ol' Windows.

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