July 2011 – DeanLogic

ArrayCollection column counts

Posted on July 26, 2011 by DeanLogic — No Comments ↓

As part of an example of trying to read data from SharePoint and display it in a Flex/Flash application, I needed to see if I could create pie charts from the data. After figuring out how to get the list data as an xml output, then cleaning up the data to insert it into a ArrayCollection, the next step was to count the number of times a particular value was used in a particular column. If I was using SQL, it would be a straight forward grouping and count. The work around was to filter out the unique values and Continue reading ArrayCollection column counts→

Filming Heist H2O

Posted on July 6, 2011 by DeanLogic — No Comments ↓

The weekend of June 24 I got together with a The RTP “Let’s Make a Movie” Meetup group of people and we filmed a short movie in 48 hours. We were part of the 48 Hour Film Project, a filming competition that requires teams to write, film, edit and submit a 7 minute film within a 48 hour time period. This is the second year that I have competed in the contest and this year’s effort was much better than last year’s. The contest starts with team leaders drawing film genres randomly. If the group doesn’t like the genre, they Continue reading Filming Heist H2O→