Today I started Learn Flex In a Week 

Today I was able to get through the first 4 videos.  I combine my breaks at work into one so I can use the time to learn new things.

Here are the first 4 videos I watched today.

Introducing Adobe Flex 4

• Introducing Flex and the Adobe Flash Platform (4:49)
• Incorporating Flex into the client/server world (2:54)

Setting up Flash Builder

• Exploring Flash Builder and Flash Player (6:02)
• Using Flash Builder (19:22)

Thoughts:  I am an impatient person when it comes to learning something new.  I tend to want to skip the beginning videos and get right to it.  I decided today with FLEX training that I would watch each video and not skip.  It has been awhile since I learned something new of this magnitude.

I thought the speaker was easy to listen to.  She doesn’t speak to slow or too fast and she is clear and concise.

My goal is to finish the whole training in 30 days or less.  I only have 39 days left on my Flex Builder trial but that will be more than enough time to finish the training and decide if Flex and Flex Builder are for me.

I hope my future posts are a little more in depth about the information I am learning.

I been experimenting with different ways to clear a form after an ajax submit.  An add form to be specific.

I found a post from the old jQuery Google Group by Brandon Aaron.

jQuery('#myForm')[0].reset();

I tested it out and it works great.

Today I had to install Ubuntu in a Virtual Box on one of our servers. Accessing the Ubuntu desktop via the remote desktop connection was rather slow, so I decided to enable the remote desktop on VNC. I enabled it without any problem. They make it really easy. The issue I had was the default port 5900 was not opened in the company firewall. I did have another port available so I went to change it. All the documentation I found said there should be an advanced tab but there wasn’t. Finally after some Google searching I found this link:

Dave’s Tech Support Blog

The brief summary is:  You open up the gconf-editor and set an alternative port, check the checkbox that says “use alternative port” and then reboot. Easy as that!

Dave is my hero today.  Thanks Dave!

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