Updated Design Pattern Group Page
[UPDATE July 18, 2008]
Daniel sent me a link to his preso on the Proxy class. Interesting stuff - Proxy is the new __resolve. Uhh kind of.
Finally got around to updating the Design Pattern Group page. Posted James’s preso on FlyWeight and Phil’s on Template vs Strategy. And added other topics and speakers (I guess for posterity)
Primary Election Center Finished
Finally updated the Election Center. Obama won! That’ll be the final update. There are things I’d change - but, time to start looking at the General Election.
Data Grid and ADG Footers
[UPDATE 26 Jun 2008] - view source is now fully functional
I made some enhancements to the DataGrid footer posted in Alex’s Flex Closet. This supports resizing columns, locked columns, and horizontal scrolling. It is also implemented in both the Data Grid and the Advanced Data Grid. Licensed under MIT (which I believe is the do whatever the hell you want license - commercial, non-commercial, sell it unedited to someone (although that would be morally wrong)).
I haven’t tested these very much. If you find a bug, please comment.
Demo here. The functions that calculate the content of the footers are in the main mxml. Right click to view source.
Obama Wins Nomination!
OK - well that’ll be tonight. Hilary’s bringing in her big supporters to New York. Bill’s said that he won’t be involved in a presidential campaign for while. And Obama needs 43 delegates to win. All signs point to yes. I’ve updated the Election Center. Unfortunately the state by state data is totally screwed up (not sure if it’s me or CNN (probably me)), so I commented out that tab. I’ll try to fix that tonight.
103 Delegates Today
Getting near the end - Oregon and Kentucky hold their primaries today. Looks like Clinton will win Kentucky (51 delegates). Obama will win Oregon (52 delegates). And Clinton will continue to smoke the high grade and think she can somehow win. I updated the election center and added a summary tab. The tab contains two charts: a pie chart showing current totals; and a bar chart showing how many delegates each candidate needs to win. Most telling is Clinton needs to win 72% of the remaining delegates to win.
Obama 92.6% There
It’s looking pretty tough for Hillary after yesterday. But, we still might have to wait until monkeys fly out of Paul Begala’s butt. Anyway, the election center is fairly updated (totals were this morning). Take a look.
Source MSNBC (which has the highest Obama numbers)
Manny Tracker
This thing’s cool. Nice to see the Globe making data visualizations. Although the Globe is owned by the Times, so maybe they’re behind it.
Also, I rarely post data viz links, to see tons more, go to the links page.
Flex Data Visualization component source is available
I had been working w/ the Flex beta (where you couldn’t get at the source) for so long, I just gave up. But, you can get at the charting component source if you buy Flex Builder Pro. Not open source, but, all I want to do is override methods. (via Pearls of Flex)
Google Data Viz API
Google has released a data visualization API. Some of it is Flash - specifically the code they got when they purchased Gap Minder.
Update: Infosthetics has a good post about this as well.
WordPress Upgrade
I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress and changed the theme of the blog as well. It now works well enough that I can stop editing and spend time w/ my family. There will be incremental updates over the next week or so. Hopefully RSS works. It appears Categories are screwed up. I need some green in the theme. That said, I was using WordPress 1.5 and the upgrade to 2.3.3 is pretty great.
And contact page doesn’t work yet.
And that search button looks stupid.