Getting an internet connection under VirtualPC running Windows XP and Internet Explorer 7 Open the ‘settings’ of the virtual machine and select Networking -> then change Adapter1 to “Shared networking (NAT)” and it will use your local machine’s network settings.

1 2 var lowerCase:String = "sample text"; var upperCase:String = lowerCase.toUpperCase();

Is your Firefox starting to get realllllllly slow? Every few months my Firefox starts dragging, so all I do is create a new profile and reimport all my bookmarks and reinstall needed addons. For a rundown on how to create a new profile, click the following link.. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager

You can use “ucwords()” to uppercase the first character of each word in a string. e.g. 1 2 3 $myVar = 'this is a test!'; $myVar = ucwords($myVar); // This Is A Test!

A brilliant version of print_r for actionscript: http://dev.base86.com/solo/47/actionscript_3_equivalent_of_phps_printr.html

In order to reuse a variable from a different timeline within the same fla file you will need to register the inital variable or function as a _global. Todo this as a variable: 1 _global.myString:String = "My String"; Todo this as a function: 1 _global.myFunction = function() {}

I had a problem today where I got a flash source file from one of my developers’ and I couldnt compile it because it said that there was a conflicting class name, however, it turned out to just be a timestamp issue. Read here for more information http://www.epresenterplus.com/blog/archives/000030.html

What the hey? What does this mean? You may one day end up seeing the following error message produced by PHP and wonder to yourself: PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘)’, expecting T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in ///File.php on line 160 You guessed it, “T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM” is not english. It’s actually a Hebrew word meaning “unexpected” or “Twice Colon“. It happens when PHP tries to call the “::” (double colon) which is used when identifying an uninstantiated class’ method.