http://taytay.com Wherin our hero muses on things of a technological nature Fri, 07 May 2010 19:02:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I learned a lot over the past year and a half since I started working with Adobe Flex/AIR, and I really want to give the talk that I wish someone had given me at Adobe MAX 2008. It would basically be a, "Here is what to look out for ... http://taytay.com/?p=142 I couldn't figure out why the link in my Text element's htmlText field wasn't firing. Turns out I had selectable="false" on the Text element, and changing it to be selectable="true" made it work again. Hopefully someone will see this when they do the same Google search I just ... http://taytay.com/?p=138 Thanks to this helpful post, I am now happily searching through my /Library folder using the Finder's search/Spotlight field. Here's a quick video I made showing how to do it. http://taytay.com/?p=135 I love 1Password. I think it's the best password manager out there, even though it's only for the Mac. Anyway, they now have an extension for Chrome, and it is easy to install by following these instructions. http://taytay.com/?p=133 Jesse just made a cool video showing the evolution of "You Need a Budget (YNAB)" as it went from whiteboarding concepts to reality: You can check out the original blog post here. http://taytay.com/?p=126 I'm posting this as a note to myself because I keep forgetting how to do it between drops of the AIR 2.0 Beta SDK. This article tells you everything you need to know. The key for me was the helpful "ditto" command: ditto -V /Volumes/AIR\ SDK/ /Applications/Adobe\ Flex\ Builder\ 3/sdks/3.4andAir2/ You can ... http://taytay.com/?p=124 Jesse and I just found out about this article in the New York Times, and we were pretty jazzed that YouNeedABudget.com got a mention! On a related note, YNAB 3, our flagship software, is out of beta as of last night! If you're tired of the way those other applications ... http://taytay.com/?p=122 Every time I set up my Flex development environment on a new machine, I always forget where I can download the older versions of the Flex SDK, so I'm making this note here for myself. This is the page where you can download all versions of the Flex SDK ... http://taytay.com/?p=119 We're looking for someone to help us make our AIR-based personal finance software even better. This will start out as a 6 month contract, but if things are going great, there's a strong possibility we will extend it. We've got a lot we want to do to the ... http://taytay.com/?p=109 Well, okay, it's slightly more than a line, but still I wish someone had written a blog post like this when I went out looking for a CSV parser for YNAB 3. Thanks to comments in this blog, I discovered that you can split a CSV line, and correctly account for ... http://taytay.com/?p=106