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Reported Attack Site!

December 11, 2009

What the heck is that? So you’ve just visited a website using Mozilla Firefox and this message has popped up telling you that the site looks suspicious.

Simple HEX Colour Values

December 10, 2009

• Css

Actual Display Colour HEX Colour #000000 #FF0000 #00FF00 #0000FF #FFFF00 #00FFFF #FF00FF #C0C0C0 #FFFFFF

Send Email PHP Function

December 10, 2009

• Php

Ever find yourself typing the headers into the php mail() function over and over again?

mySQL Development Tools

December 9, 2009

I came across a very interesting article about mySQL Development Tools.

1180: Call to a possibly undefined method getURL. Actionscript 3

December 7, 2009

Hello all actionscripters, you can’t use getURL anymore in Actionscript 3.

Online Flash IDE Anybody?

December 3, 2009

• Actionscript

Anyone up for an online Flash IDE? Take a look at this:

Papervision Event Listener Idea

December 3, 2009

• Actionscript

The problem: While working on a Papervision3D Flash Project I had a problem where a back button that sits above the 3d canvas and acts as a main navigational item was required to change Events according to where the site was in 3d space at the time.

Don’t cache my swf files!

December 2, 2009

• Actionscript

I often have issues where ‘dumb browsers’ cache my published swf files and when they dynamically populate they don’t always update.

Clear an array in Actionscript 3

December 2, 2009

• Actionscript

I personally really like this way of clearing an array’s elements:

Change combobox font size in Flash Actionscript

November 30, 2009

• Actionscript

Ever needed to change the font size of a standard flash combobox component?

Wordwrap that PRE!

November 23, 2009

• Css

Ever used a <PRE> in a limited width div container? You will notice that the line gets cut off almost as if word-wrap was not enabled.

Barclays ePDQ Payment Gateway

November 23, 2009

Hello all! Today we will be talking about Barclays online payment gateway valled ePDQ.

BrainWHAT? programming language

November 23, 2009

I came across a programming language today that I have never heard of.

Transparent swf in html

November 23, 2009

• Actionscript

So you have now placed a swf file into your html page and you want to be able to see through it.

Constant updates?

November 13, 2009

I just hate it how everything always wants to update… and then restart all the damn time!

Share the mouse and keyboard!

November 13, 2009

A very interesting project I found this morning, take a look at this one!

What is CWS>+?

November 12, 2009

So what the heck kind of file starts with the characters “CWS>+” ?

Papervision error 1046

November 5, 2009

• Actionscript

Error: “1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: InteractiveScene3DEvent.

azupnpav_0.2.23

November 5, 2009

So what the heck is “azupnpav_0.2.23.zip”? It appears to be a plugin for Vuze(Azureus) the torrent client.

How to Save a Dreamweaver document as UTF8!

November 4, 2009

Today I tried to save arabic text inside a javascript file and on saving encountered a dialog box asking me to first convert the document to UTF8.