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January 2010

  • MailChimp and Java Integration – Part 2

    Sun 17th

    In the previous article, we showed how to connection your Java application to MailChimp using the MailChimp api and the XML-RPC library provided by Zviki Cohen at nWire Software. The code in the article also provided a method to initialize the MailChimp mailing list by using the batch upload function in the api. This article [...]

  • MailChimp and Java Integration – Part 1

    Fri 15th

    MailChimp™ is a great online email marketing site. It is extremely easy to use and provides tools to manage your email lists, build attractive HTML email campaigns, and track how those campaigns performed. On top of that, it offers a free account for smaller companies. How can you beat that? Those of you who are [...]

September 2009

  • Styling DataGrid rows with an Item Renderer

    Sun 6th

    I had a need to bold the data in only one row of a Flex DataGrid. There were some solutions posted on-line (especially ninjacaptain) but honestly I could not get them to work the way I wanted. So, using their examples as a starting place, I created an extremely simple ItemRenderer which would bold the [...]

August 2009

  • DataGrid Footer

    Thu 27th

    I was enjoying the enhancements made to the DataGrid control I found on Doug Marttila’s site, who in turn was working from an original update made by Alex Harui. However, I found that the footer did not work correctly when you make columns visible/invisible, especially horizontal scrolling. There was also a problem of vertical scrolling [...]