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		<title>Variable scope in ActionScript Flex</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hoisting, the strangest ActionScript/Flex &#8220;feature&#8221; I&#8217;ve ever seen (at the moment of writing). Probably you&#8217;ve never heard of hoisting. I was hinted to this feature when I had two variables with the same name in one function. Flex was warning about this, but I didn&#8217;t really understand why. Check the following example: private function existsInSources(searchFor:String):Boolean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Installing SoapUI in Ubuntu (9.10)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While googling for a guide to install soapUI in Ubuntu I found nothing useful. Could it be that installing soapUI in Ubuntu is too easy to describe? It turns out to be really easy, but just for the sake of other people googling this short guide. soapUI is the leading tool for Web Service Testing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Setting width and height in Flex using CSS</title>
		<link>http://www.markvandenbergh.com/archives/134/setting-width-and-height-in-flex-using-css/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 16:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the current version of Flex (3) it&#8217;s not possible to set width and height using CSS. The application I&#8217;m working on has a lot of screens containing a lot of TextInput fields. I want to be able to control the width and height of these text fields using CSS. Sean Christmann has a nice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Captcha is useless</title>
		<link>http://www.markvandenbergh.com/archives/119/captcha-is-useless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone with a blog knows about spam in comments. WordPress standard comes with Akismet, which does a good job filtering spam in your comments. But wouldn&#8217;t you rather have no spam comments at all? That would save time checking for false-positives. The most used method for filtering spam is a CAPTCHA. A distorted image that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Installing Flex Builder on Ubuntu 9.04</title>
		<link>http://www.markvandenbergh.com/archives/83/installing-flex-builder-on-ubuntu-904/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flex]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ubuntu]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.markvandenbergh.com/?p=83</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For my work I&#8217;ve been working with Adobe Flex. If you&#8217;re doing Flex development you (probably) work with Flex Builder. It has features a development tool should provide; code completion, design view, good integrated building/running of projects, debugging etc. At work I&#8217;m tied to my Windows XP laptop, at home I work with Ubuntu Linux. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Applying Game Mechanics to Functional Software</title>
		<link>http://www.markvandenbergh.com/archives/78/applying-game-mechanics-to-functional-software/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coding]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Game Mechanics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Techtalks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Architect]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just finished watching a Google Tech Talk by Amy Jo Kim of Shuffle Brain, regarding game mechanics in functional software (video embedded below). She has worked as a social architect on for example Rockband, and applying game mechanics on the eBay infrastructure. She has great ideas and examples of game mechanics applied to software (almost) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fast debugging statements</title>
		<link>http://www.markvandenbergh.com/archives/41/fast-debugging-statements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debugging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defensive programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[log4j]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[logging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[precompilation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[precompiler]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While reading Code Complete 2nd Edition I ran into a chapter which covers defensive programming. Defensive programming includes debugging, but not to any price of course. We don&#8217;t want performance of the application to suffer from debugging statements, at least not in production fase. Debugging is mainly used during development. Implementation (Java) So how do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JMS and SAP, avoid this combination?</title>
		<link>http://www.markvandenbergh.com/archives/4/jms-and-sap-avoid-this-combination/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markvandenbergh.com/archives/4/jms-and-sap-avoid-this-combination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[JMS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cache]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[connection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garbage collection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garbage collector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outofmemoryexception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[static variables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[topic]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.markvandenbergh.com/?p=4</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I told a colleague “I&#8217;m going to use JMS topics to solve this problem”. His answer was: “SAP in combination with JMS&#8230; you don&#8217;t want to go there.”. Based on the fact that several SAP applications which use JMS seem to have complications&#8230; Is JMS and SAP a bad combination? Or at least a combination [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No more comments in your code</title>
		<link>http://www.markvandenbergh.com/archives/21/no-more-comments-in-your-code/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markvandenbergh.com/archives/21/no-more-comments-in-your-code/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comments]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.markvandenbergh.com/?p=21</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Comments, the more the better&#8230; right? Well I thought so too, in fact this is some of my code of a few days ago: // handle the initialization of jobs if (request.getParameter("initiateJobs") != null &#38;&#38; request.getParameter("initiateJobs").equalsIgnoreCase("true")) { initializeJobs(); } // get the trigger info, which will be displayed on the jsp page List triggerInfo = [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google exception humor</title>
		<link>http://www.markvandenbergh.com/archives/7/google-exception-humor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markvandenbergh.com/archives/7/google-exception-humor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[High Availability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[application exception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[error page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gmail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high scalability]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[youtube]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I was trying to open my gmail on a rather unstable Wifi connection, it was loading&#8230; loading&#8230; and suddenly it showed an error page saying: Dear valued user, You have reached the error page for the error page&#8230; You win!! Pretty funny if you ask me. But what if I got [...]]]></description>
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