Originally I developed this blog to give back to the community and by that I mean sharing tutorials and code snippets all based around web and software development. Well that’s going to be changing. While I still plan on sharing content around development, I also plan on sharing tutorials and other types of content based around other hobbies and things that I like to do. Like composing music, video production, software, charts, ideas, thoughts, opinions. Will all of this information be useful to you? I doubt it. With that in mind I will be categorizing and separating this information out into groups and sub groups so if you would like to subscribe to any particular type of information you can.

By the way I want to thank all of the commenter’s helping other commenter’s. I will be going through all of the spam comments and implementing a better spam solution so it doesn’t require as much management.

Add Days to a Date by passing in two values. Use jQuery UI to format the output.

There are multiple ways to export the data from a MySQL Query. I am going to start with the easiest first.

MySQL Query Browser

This is by far the simplest way to export the data that you just queried.

1) Open MySQL Query Browser
2) Write your Query and Run it
3) Right-Click on the Results
4) Click Export Resultset

Inline conditionals, coding, if then’s whatever you want to call it is soooo easy yet has been a pain in the royal _ _ _ for me to find maybe its the search terms I have been Google’ing I don’t know.

Hello! Hows it going? Alright the guy who has to go to the restroom, go now, make some popcorn and come back. Good now that were all cozy i’m going to explain this series.

I’m going to in a series of posts walk you through the initial steps of what I like to call Performance Refactoring. I refer to it as such because I am not going to concentrate on just the code, just the app, just the web server etc. We’re going to look at it all. This is necessary with today’s technologies for a lot of reasons, but for enterprise level applications to not do performance checking can be deadly.

I recently built a JavaScript file manager but I wanted more control and better usability instead of expanding on the JavaScript version I decided to build it using Flex. Because Flex doesn’t have file system commands (that I know of) I had to use a server side language. We use VBScript at our company so I used that for the backend. I will be expanding this to other languages the next one to be released will be .NET C# as that seems to be what people polled for.

Before we get started download “One Headlight” by the Wallflowers. Yea its a bit old but still rocks!

Now that have some music jamming in the background lets get started.

We need an ASP.NET web service if you don’t already have one create it; if you do then great. This example code is in C# it can easily be done in VB as well.

1. Let’s add an import to the top

using System.Web.Mail;

This is probably one of the easier things to do in Flex. Yea you could probably find out how to do this by reading the Adobe Flex Documentation but who wants to read that when you have Google at your fingertips.

What the Adobe Flex Documentation wont tell you is how to format your date and time inside of a DataGrid or other components.  No worries I do!

Here is how you format a date pulled in as XML, E4X or whatever…

First you will need a DateFormatter

<mx:DateFormatter id="formatDateTime" formatString="MM/DD/YY" />