Building a time estimate slider like The Hit List

The estimates slider in The Hit List is smart. Its tick marks are equidistant, but values are not. The snap between each tick varies according to its context. Building this in Flex! It’s been 1.5 hours, still figuring out the exact logic! My fascination of The Hit List goes on!

Scrolling with mouse wheel in Flex application – even on Mac

By default Flex components do not scroll as you scroll using the wheel on your mouse. You can achieve this by writing a mouseWheel event handler, checked the delta value and scrolling up or down depending on whether it’s positive or negative. But that does not work on Mac OS X. The solution involves tracking […]

Card Deck Animation in Flex

I was trying out a GTD application the other day called The Hit List. The application is superb, and I was really impressed with their attention to detail. One thing that excited me was their card view – and especially how they animated card swaps. You see a deck of cards, and as you navigate […]

Strange issue with site – DNS may be..

We shifted servers a few days back, but we seem to have some interesting problems. Right now, I see a two different versions of this blog in Firefox and Safari. Both point to same IP. Safari shows old version, Firefox shows new version. Puzzled! Solved it! This took much longer to figure out, but it […]

Auto Complete Text Component for Flex

Was looking for ways to skin a combobox and found another gem! An auto complete text component for Flex. Now you may say what’s new about that? But this is really nice – shows auto complete, allows multiple items to be added (like tags), can show items horizontally or vertically, can reorder them and some […]