I hit a problem this week that had me stumped (what’s new?). So, I put on my scuba gear and dove into the code…. More after the jump…
I encountered my first Security Sandbox error while testing an AS3 project on the production server. I have a primary SWF called top.swf that loads an XML file with a list of URLs for other SWF files that will be loaded as sub-SWFs in top.swf. The XML file loads fine (it is located in a [...]
I am working on an AS3 project and developing it with the Flash CS3 IDE and FlashDevelop 3.0.6. I write all of the code in FlashDevelop and use the Flash IDE to create visual elements that would be a pain in the arse to code. When using flash.net.URLLoader to load external XML data and working [...]
I have Dreamweaver CS3 installed on Windows Vista (Home Premium). It turns out that if you want Dreamweaver to color *.inc files as it does *.php files, you need to add inc to the file called MMDocumentTypes.xml. The document is located at C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CS3\configuration\DocumentTypes\MMDocumentTypes.xml on my machine. Edit the winfileextension and macfileextension attributes [...]
I have been having some serious issues building a thorough file upload script for JPEG files using PHP. It is surprising to me how little information I can find about writing upload scripts that check errors and try to make the experience as user-friendly as possible when errors occur. I will document my discoveries in [...]
I recently bartered for a Dell Dimension 4500 and set it up as a LAMP server. I started with Ubuntu Server Edition 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) and then switched to Debian server, but had internet connection issues with Debian, so I switched back to Ubuntu and haven’t had any issues. This is the primary resource that [...]