At the moment I'm using Flex builder 3 when developing flash or flex applications. Today I decided to download Flash builder 4 beta to try it out and see what differences there are between the two of them. Reasons why The main reason why I decided to to try FB4 was the new feature "Flash container" which allows you to add swf files directly inside a Flex application. Before you had to make an UIComponent in Flash to [...]

When you are freelancing at home you don't have fixed hours and you don't have anyone shouting at you when you aren't working. In other words it's really easy to slack off. So what can you do to keep yourself disciplined and focused? Here are 7 tips to help you to keep yourself disciplined. I asked this question at stackoverflow to get some hints and tips how to do it. This post is a collection of - in my opinion - the bes [...]

As I promised in my short post about the importance of regular expressions, here's a short introduction to regular expressions in my way of explaining things. I think it's important to have different sources of learning things where people explains certain thing in different ways. Because everyone doesn't see things the same way, therefor we won't understand and learn things the same way. To start off I believe the when lea [...]

When handling text data you will get to the point where you need to filter it and retrive certain parts of it. I think a lot of developers will start of thinking of a solution involving substring and indexof types of functions. Even though they could do it more accurately using regular expression. I think why people do this is because they think regular expressions look a bit cryptic and hard to learn. I know I have been th [...]