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		<title>Implementing the Singleton Pattern in Flex</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 21:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that wasn&#8217;t immediately clear to me when I started working with Flex was how to implement a Singleton. In ActionScript 3, a developer can&#8217;t write static classes. So it takes some discipline on the developer&#8217;s part to to set up a class correctly so that it can be used as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sparecycles.wordpress.com&blog=2632731&post=78&subd=sparecycles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RTFM #81: Removing a property from an object in Flex</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent an hour plus today trying to figure out how to remove a property from a generic object in Flex. I was just about to extend ObjectProxy and try to make use of its protected deleteProperty() method when I found just the right set of search terms on google that led me to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sparecycles.wordpress.com&blog=2632731&post=75&subd=sparecycles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flock Moving to Chrome?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just caught up with the story that Flock may be switching to chrome as its browser engine. I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m excited. I love Flock, but part of the reason I love it is I can incorporate all of my firefox plug-ins with a lot of social media hooks.
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		<title>Making FlexMonkey and Mate Property Injection Play Nice Together</title>
		<link>http://sparecycles.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/making-flexmonkey-and-mate-property-injection-play-nice-together/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past month I&#8217;ve had my head buried in the world of Flex programming. It&#8217;s an exciting world where rich interfaces can be easily prototyped and built out. Overall, I&#8217;m finding that the general enterprise development architecture for the platform is very young. And this can lead to some problems.
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		<title>My Experience with Windows</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the first day of my new job I was handed a Windows laptop. This came as a bit of a surprise because prior to my start date they had asked me whether I wanted to work on Mac or Windows, and I said Mac.
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		<title>Eliminating Feed Noise</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I did a major overhaul of my feed reader&#8217;s subscriptions. I was tired of the repeated content and stories I was seeing across tech feeds. Whenever a company had an announcement or bit of news, every single publication I followed would release a write-up.
I resolved to trim my tech feedss down to no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sparecycles.wordpress.com&blog=2632731&post=58&subd=sparecycles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone and iCal ToDo Sync with Appigo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I finally have ToDo syncing between iCal and my iPhone. It&#8217;s a feature that I&#8217;ve had on my cellular phones since, oh&#8230; about 2003. It is something I lost when I switched to an iPhone, and is one of the features that I can&#8217;t believe Apple decided not to tackle.
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		<title>Playing around with maatkit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[MySQL]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was doing some MySQL query performance tuning on DGM Live today using maatkit. Maatkit is a toolkit for measuring, what else, MySQL performance. The two tools that I played around with specifically were the slow query log parser and the query profiler.
I don&#8217;t use perl a whole lot, so the first thing I had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sparecycles.wordpress.com&blog=2632731&post=50&subd=sparecycles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Purely Anecdotal #256: The Power of Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is purely anecdotal&#8230;
But, recently I was reading on a friend&#8217;s blog about how much they liked the facebook chat tool and how it had changed their lives.
Basically, this person had never really used IM chat before. The reason was that it involved installing new software and learning a new communications paradigm.
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		<title>Internet Authentication Needs To Change</title>
		<link>http://sparecycles.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/internet-authentication-needs-to-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s big tech news is the hijacking of several prominent twitter accounts. The hijack method isn&#8217;t confirmed, but it was most likely the result of a recent phishing exploit.
Twitter is very vulnerable to phishing attacks. In order for third parties to interact with a twitter account they need the authentication credentials. There are a number [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sparecycles.wordpress.com&blog=2632731&post=44&subd=sparecycles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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