Author Archives: crydust
Vista speedup part 2
My previous post about vista speedup has been quite popular. But it doesn’t mention defragmenting your harddrive. This is such an obvious thing to do I forgot to mention it. A fragmented drive is a slow drive. As a daily … Continue reading
Flash on the Beach – day 3 – Adobe town hall meeting
New ways of working with video coming soon (before CS4). Cross-domain cache might not come for anything but Adobe stuff for security and privacy. Nothing is said about Flash on the iPhone. Adobe is listening to the community. Just send … Continue reading
Flash on the Beach – day 2
Done Wow, Mario Klingemann’s presentation was great. Tink explained how to customize the flex preloader, use styles and skins and create your own skinnable and styleable components. He’s going to put his slides and code on his blog by monday. … Continue reading
Flash on the Beach – day 1
Done Barely slept Registration. Got a goodybag containing flash on the beach slippers, stickers, a towel and a book. Intro. Next version of flash gets a cross-domain component cache, typed arrays, encrypted video streams, much better text flow, 64 bit … Continue reading
Flash on the Beach – day 0
Done Travel to Brighton via London. Check into guest house. Pub, restaurant, party. Met squirrels German panda with two promo chicks iPhone Nicolas Cannasse (mtasc/haxe programmer) powerflasher Serge Jespers Peter Elst Koen De Weggheleire Wouter Verweirder Klaus Delanghe Seen Lee … Continue reading
FileZilla decrypt
Every now and then I get someone asking me for an ftp password. Mine have always been stored in FileZilla. I don’t know them by heart. There is no problem with this except that FileZilla encrypts them. Thank God decrypting FileZilla 2 passwords is easy. Here is some as2 code to accomplish it.
Brighton, here I come!
I’m really looking forward to Flash on the Beach. I share these three days of excitement with my two colleagues Brik and Piet.
XSLT transform in asp with Microsoft.XMLDOM
I recently had to transform an xml file into a scorm manifest file. I wanted it to be in UTF-8, but Microsoft.XMLDOM‘s transform method disregards the encoding setting in xsl:output. The transformNodeToObject method doesn’t. I also found out I had to use the save method on the output object instead of writing a file based on the xml property. You’ll find the function I ended up writing to assist me below:
Google reader in Opera 9.5
Temporarily fixing google reader for Opera 9.5 requires following code: #entries { min-height: 500px; } To do this go to Site Preferences > Display > My style sheet. Update: Google seems to have fixed it.
News
Silverlight 1.0 is released and it doesn’t work on Mac OS prior to version 10.4.8, Linux, Windows 2000 and the Opera browser. Flash Player 9 reached 90% penetration. Maybe thanks to being truly cross platform? The iPod touch has a … Continue reading