Author Archives: DeanLogic

About DeanLogic

Dean has been playing around with programming ever since his family got an IBM PC back in the early 80's. Things have changed since BASICA and Dean has dabbled in HTML, JavaScript, Action Script, Flex, Flash, PHP, C#, C++, J2ME and SQL. On this site Dean likes to share his adventures in coding. And since programming isn't enough of a time killer, Dean has also picked up the hobby of short film creation.

WordPress plugins and svn annoyances!

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Small things in programming have been annoying me the last couple of days. WordPress has started using svn (Subversion) as a method of version control for plugins. What this does, is allow the developer to upload version of the plugin to a database and then the plugin will automatically be updated on the download page. Also, it will alert anyone who has the plugin that there is an update to the plugin. From there, the user of the plugin can easily install/update it through the Admin panel. It’s actually very useful. Well, I just recently updated my WP-People plugin to Continue reading WordPress plugins and svn annoyances!→

WP People Updated

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I was trying to add a FAQ to my blog for the Meetup Organizer Tool I am working on and then I got side tracked updating my WP People Plugin. The WP People Plugin basically takes the Name value from Links added to the blog and replaces it with a nick name and a link to more information about the person. I originally had created a database table to hold the people and an admin screen to add, edit and delete. Then I saw the XFN option in WordPress and figured it would be much easier to use that information. Continue reading WP People Updated→

Issue with Flex 3 error "class is not an IEventDispatcher"

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I just started playing around with Flex 3 for a project at work. Part of the project requires pulling customer site information and displaying on a Google Map. I figured out how to do that, but when I would display grid data I would get the warning. warning: unable to bind to property ‘xxx’ on class ‘xxx’ (class is not an IEventDispatcher) After a few Google searches, I found an easy solution and a “d’uh moment”. I had set up my data structures as ActionScript Class files. package { public class Site { public var site_id:int; public var name:String; public Continue reading Issue with Flex 3 error "class is not an IEventDispatcher"→

Upgrade

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Ooops!!! Well, I don’t know what happened first. Either my website went down and the ISP moved me to an upgraded server or they moved me to an upgraded server and my website went down. Yikes! Luckily it looks like everything is now fine, except a couple of things. I had to adjust the files in the home directory to point back to the blog. I don’t know why they were changed, but that seems to always be the case when my site goes down. It is like the back up of the site is of every folder below the Continue reading Upgrade→

Adding a little style

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Last night I decided to clean up the home page a little bit. The plugins I am working on are being used on the home page and they don’t have any styling to them. It was just basic output of the RSS feed. It looked pretty ugly. So, after getting back from watching 300, I decided that I should do a little clean-up. I used the same basic css style sheet being used in the WP People plugin for the popup window. I just changed the colors and the border lines a little bit for now. Just a quick fix Continue reading Adding a little style→