Flex, DataGrids, Oh My!

Soon, I will be posting some really boring boring ..zzz.. posts. But, it'll be nice to remember these things for the future. Flex 2.0 has some funky stuff and I'd like to remember it for reference.

Namely, working with DataGrids and Item renderers - and more specifically, Date item renderers. Converting stuff from a String to a Date, back to a String. That's a pain, there should be an easier way of doing things.