Flex Background Colors

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Here’s a Flex tip on changing default flex background colors:
When you are using a different color background to the default one in Flex, there can be a slight delay when resizing the window for the new background color to catch up. Before it catches up, the old default color is displayed. To fix this simply go into your project properties and the into the Flex compiler settings and in the ‘Additional Compiler Arguments’ add the following line:

-default-background-color #COLOR

Swapping COLOR for the code of your color. I would encourage anyone who has Flex tips no matter how obscure to let me know in the comments or by visiting the “write for us” tab in the navigation bar above.

MySQL ERD Tool

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A self-proclaimed ‘old school database guy’, Cal Evans gives us an honest and pretty thorough review of the latest version of MySQL Workbench –worth your time if you’re not happy with the MySQL ERD tool you use now, or even if you are. He aims for a real-world simulation test of the workbench, with 18 applications open simultaneously on his desktop, with the test database being quite simple but shedding light on many of the products features. He covers the whole spectrum of his results from good to bad and concludes that while MySQL Workbench isn’t perfect it is probably good enough.

If this interests you, check out Digital Media Minute’s review of another visual database design system for MySQL, DBDesigner.