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• if u are a gamer and in sg, Gamescore.com.sg is having a 20% storewide sale… gonna check it out later #
• Here’s wishing everyone on twitter and twinkle a happy new year! Where is your party 2nite? Mine’s at butter factory. #
• is a football manager on New year’s day =) #
• its a rather dark NYD #
• B4 i forget, i shld be confirming my reservist training for the next two months… damn high key soon! #
• hasnt done any runs for this festive week and itching for one today… but there’s a planned group one tmr morning… FTW!! #
• doesnt like data patching that involves $$ and prices #
• is getting sleepy… yawn #
• @sharnz i wanna play too!! btw i am addicted to left4dead now in reply to sharnz #
• For those using MySQL, there’s a webinar “Boost Performance with 5.1 and Query Analyzer” for Asia South ppl http://twurl.nl/i4irkf #
• am so glad the new year is starting out better than i expected… #
• @ryuworks tried using posterous.com? their post-by-email works great.. you can post to various social networks with it in reply to ryuworks #
• @ryuworks actually Nokia has this native Live blog client. It works with movable type but limited support with WP. Can’t rem e name in reply to ryuworks #
• @ryuworks http://www.sixapart.com/typepad/lifeblog This is the app in reply to ryuworks #
• My knee feels busted. And I got reservist soon #
• Catching 7 pounds tonight. #
• @sophistifunk stay tuned in 2.5 hours time in reply to sophistifunk #
• Ok seven pounds isn’t a great show but I like it. Has a touching ending to it. #
• good morning everyone… hope you have a great start to the week #
• sort of… my work week just started… =p #
• opps… activated twitter tools on my blog and i said “Yes” to ” Create a blog post from each of your tweets”. sorry 4 the unintended spam #
• @wynlim a belated Happy New Year to you! wakie wakie in reply to wynlim #
• shall stop surfing and do my 10km run now… tweet later #
• so glad i keep my personal wiki to store my ssl cert information… already been one year #
• This month is the month of short work weeks for me… Reservist trg this thur & fri, CNY the week after… #
• I forgot to mention… Sun Tech Days also happening this month… 20-21 Jan… Look forward to JavaFX this time #

A xmas greeting from my cousin’s son.

If you are using a itemRenderer and updating the dataprovider of the DataGrid within the itemRenderer, you may have to force the DataGrid to update manually.

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I needed to use a nested data object with a DataGrid. By default, the Flex (Moxie) DataGrid will not be able to display data in nested objects directly by using the dataField attribute in DataGridColumn.

An example of my nested object is as follows:

<persons>
    <boy>
        <name>TED</name>
    </boy>
        <name>TIM</name>
    <boy>
    </boy>
    <girl>
        <name>SUE</name>
    </girl>
    <girl>
        <name>ANN</name>
    </girl>
</persons>

Thank God, i found this article: Nested Data in Flex DataGrid by Extending DataGridColumn. I won’t explain how i use it here but you can go check it out there.

Here’s why i blogged about this. Well.. i needed to edit this nested data object. Setting “editable” to true did allow me to change the label but i could not commit the new value. The earlier mentioned blog article did gave me a hint of how to reference the actual field in the data object and i mixed it with the itemEditEnd event to commit the value manually.

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Just bought this a couple of days back.

Hard Gay - Yahoo! (Part 1 of 2)

This really gave me a good laugh!

Have you made the upgrade yet?

You can download the new version of Flash from here: http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer.

Alright i am one of those who haven’t. I am looking forward to this upgrade though. With the new FileReference implementation, now i should be able to send Byte Data to my BlazeDS service. Yes FileUpload with BlazeDS should be possible now. I shall try it out this weekend and share.

Just before i left Accenture, i remembered i was surfing all the internal sites for java resources and there were lots of them. Amongst them, I found Spring Batch. At that time, i had just rolled off from an batch integration project and i was very interested in mass processing and automation. Before that, my knowledge of mass processing was simply bash scripts and i enjoyed doing processing of multiple csv files to produce a final output file.

Before i start to go off topic, the reason why Accenture had a relationship with Spring Batch is due to the fact that they had a vast experience in batch implementation for various industries. Combined with the SpringSource team, i feel Spring Batch has the potential to be a defacto for batch implementation for as many reasons why Spring is a highly recommended application framework.

Spring Batch is a lightweight, comprehensive batch framework designed to enable the development of robust batch applications vital for the daily operations of enterprise systems. Spring Batch builds upon the productivity, POJO-based development approach, and general ease of use capabilities people have come to know from the Spring Framework, while making it easy for developers to access and leverage more advance enterprise services when necessary.

Spring Batch (Introduction)

An advantage it will definitely bring to enterprise is reusability. That is also why we love Spring. You code once and reuse it however you want by using Spring’s IoC. With reusability, the eventual advantage is a shorter build lifespan. You probably can do more with less. I’ll blog how to go about using Spring Batch next. In the meantime, go visit the Spring Batch home page here.

Stay tuned for more..