I guess I’m just really curious by nature. I always have been.
My first programming job didn’t initially involve any programming. I worked as a tech monkey for a mid-size catalog retailer in the mid 90’s. I sprung the idea to them to make a website to sell online. We initially bought a out-of-the-box e-commerce package called Inex, but soon found that it didn’t quite meet all of our needs. Being the cheap company that it was, they didn’t want to spend the money to contract the modifications out, so I took it upon myself to reverse engineer the classic VBScript ASP it was written in and make the modifications myself. Been hacking code ever since.
Nowadays I spend the majority of my time working with Adobe Flex or JavaScript on the client side, and Java or PHP server side. I work for a new Point of Sale software vendor during the day. Our software is Flex/Java based. I do contract work in the evenings, when I’m not playing with my family or playing Counter-Strike 
November 23rd, 2006 at 4:25 am
Hi,
I made some modifications to your ajax help balloon. Specifically I added a zIndex property to some of the elements to ensure topmost order, because in some page configurations, elements would be mixed below and on top of the help balloon. I set the zIndex of these elements to 300.
I figured the least I could do was post back the changes..:
Changes to HelpBalloon.js:
in _initialize():
balloonStyle: { //Balloon styling
position: ‘absolute’,
border: ‘none’,
background: ‘white’,
width: ‘300px’,
height: ‘240px’,
display: ‘none’,
zIndex: 300
},
and in function _draw():
this._elements.inner.style.zIndex = 300;
title.style.zIndex = 300;
closer.style.zIndex = 300;
contents.style.zIndex = 300;
Regards,
Guido Docter
July 3rd, 2007 at 10:55 am
We would like to use the help_balloons on a web application that uses open source components, but is a commercial application. What license models do you support. From our point of view, the MIT license is good. But I’m not sure about yours, other than the copy right.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
I too am inquiring about licensing. I would like to use the help balloons in a commercial website. What do I need to know regarding the copyright etc.
July 18th, 2007 at 9:01 am
Beau,
Love the stuff you’ve got here - I need to use atleast 2 ‘widgets’ in a commercial project. What’s your license?
-Bob
August 20th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
I really need to get on the ball and add licenses to each of the widgets. I’m probably going to use LGPL for the most part, unless there’s some major reason anyone would need MIT instead.
Beau
November 30th, 2007 at 2:53 am
Hi,
sorry if I post here but I did not find a better place.
Can you please post the source for this example ttp://www.beauscott.com/examples/FlexSessionExamples/ ?
Thank you
February 28th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
I too would like to include this in some work I’m doing for the Fedora Project but I need to know what License it is released under. Any idea when we’ll have that?