One thing that has been bothering me for awhile about AdvancedDataGrid's in Flex 3 is that you have to click the little triangle to expand a row.  A user, (Vice President), came to me wondering where all the data was located cause he didnt realize that you have to click the triangle (users have had worse questions).  I decided to find a solution so that all you have to do is click anywhere in the row for it to expand.

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19Nates.com provided a cool tutorial on how to connect a webservice to a datagrid.  I recommend checking it out.  Here is the link to his post:

http://19nates.com/2008/12/flex-3-video-tutorial-from-webservice-to-datagrid/

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One of the disadvantages to Flex 3 is the load time caused by the large .swf file size.  To counter this every flex developer has to find ways to reduce the lag.  A lot of the ways are pretty straight forward such as reducing image sizes, image quality and using proper image formats (.png, .gif, .jpg).

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I made a previous post about my lack of design skills and how I am trying to improve them.  My new love is the use of icons on my flex dashboards.  I think they really help the user with some nice visuals to click on etc.  So me being very bad at making my own I came across a site with the "50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008". :)  It is a pretty cool thing that everyone should check!  This could be old but I just came across it and love not recreating the wheel.  Check it out below:

http://www.noupe.com/icons/50-most-beautiful-icon-sets-created-in-2008.html

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One of my colleagues and I have been trying to find out exactly what the difference between using ISNULL (or NVL for you Oracle people) and (var) = NULL in our WHERE clause. 

For example:

SELECT a

FROM tblB

WHERE a = NULL 

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A friend of mine over at 19Nates made a great post for beginners on how to connect flex 3 to ASP.NET.  I would recommend it to anyone that wants to venture to .NET or anyone who just wants to learn some basics.

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