Flash is an excellent tool and it's been a lot of fun rediscovering it while working on the widgets.  However, there are just a few things that it's lacking that can be somewhat of pain while developing inside it.  9 times out of 10 you can usually find a work around or if you look hard enough you can find a buried article from someone who came across the same problem as you and came up with a work around. One problem I came across during the widget development was parsing out ...

This is a little chunk of code that has escaped me for a little bit, but I finally was able to find enough resources to piece together how to do it. If your using the new Profile Providers inside of .NET 2.0, here is how you can access a member's profile from outside the web project.  You don't get the strongly typed parameters but it still can come in handy if your desperate. ProfileBase pb = ProfileBase.Create("UserName");object obj = pb.GetPropertyValue("NameOfValueYouWantToGet"); of ...

Oh yeah.  I just ordered tickets for seeing The Cure at Red Rocks on Oct 2nd.  I can't imagine a better combination for utter personal concert enjoyment.  My all time favorite band at my favorite venue at my favorite time of year.  The tickets are right next to the mixing board so I expect the sound to be stellar. The Cure recently went through another line up change and ditched their keyboard player.  I'm assuming this will mean that their set will focus on their ...

Giveness received another nice write up and this time it was at:  ColoradoStartups.com :  http://coloradostartups.com/2007/06/19/asking-for-giveness/.  It's a blog written by David Cohen covering the start up environment here in Colorado.. as if the domain name didn't pretty much cover that. He gives a good overview of how the service works and links to a specific example, which is great.  So far, our concept continues to be well received among the community and ...

I just finished watching Michael Moore's latest documentary called "Sicko" evaluating the current health care system in the United States. You can view it online for free here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6703482849079349175 Apparently Mr. Moore doesn't mind people viewing his movies for free, but I doubt the studios do, so I wouldn't expect that link to be valid for too long.  Regardless, I would recommend that you take the time to either view it at the theatre, rent it, or even ...