‘code’ Archive

A standard Drupal install

Here is a list of the modules we generally end up installing for a standard Drupal 6 based site. If you have further recommendations please add as comments! Note some modules will be bound into the core and not required as external modules.
In no particular order:

Drupal 6 – http://drupal.org/node/579476
Admin Role – http://drupal.org/project/adminrole
Save & Edit – [...]

Re: Flash CS3 / Flex 2 AS3 Error #1046

handy little explanation of the old #1046 problem:
http://curtismorley.com/2007/06/20/flash-cs3-flex-2-as3-error-1046/

2009 portfolio

This took far too long and not comprehensive by any stretch of the imagination. But its a start ok?!
The work posted is a snapshot of the bigger Flash based projects I have been involved in over the last year.
There’s a lot of front end development (html/css/js) projects to go up at some point soon.
Check it [...]

Carlo Blatz – How Labs works

Interesting presentation by Carlo Blatz about agile project management and development of their labs website. These guys are seriously talented http://www.powerflasher.de/

Link:

Flip Flop the Flash on the Beach 09

Originally uploaded by seventy6.com
John Davey, organiser of the brilliant Flash on the Beach, asked everybody to purchase a pair of the rather cool flip-flops and take an interesting picture with them. The winner gets a free ticket to next year! Well after 2 days of walking the Brighton streets – my poor feet [...]

IE6 abbr css bug

On a current Sandbox project, we’ve committed to delivering an IE6 friendly version. WHY?!!!!
Anyhows, after some head banging with an AWOL <abbr> tag not even being noticed by IE6 – some digging shows that its never been supported! Good news is ie7+ now take notice.
This handy little JS DOM hack takes the offending tag and [...]

AS3 combobox bug

Every so often in the CS4 Flash file I’m working on, the standard flash combobox component seems to corrupt once compiled. You get undefined errors in the output window when clicking on the dropdown which point to some of the imported event listener classes are missing.
The only solution so far is to drop a new [...]

Drupal, 1&1 hosting and some 500 errors to order

Migrating from a MAMP localhost to 1&1 shared server space for a Drupal site, started causing intermittent 500 error pages. But no real feedback from Drupal.
After some digging it turns out that 1&1 default to PHP 4.4.9 even through they have 5.2.8 installed!!??!!
So adding an .htaccess file (even though they don’t allow them) with the [...]

Controlling flippingbook api within loaded swf pages

FlippingBook HTML Edition is a set of JavaScript and SWF files running on your HTML page. When a page is loaded, the code contained in these files automatically builds in the flash album having such options as: zooming, printing, saving, contents, navigation.
All good until your client wants to add any extra features! For the record, [...]

Could not connect to slideshowpro.net (using cURL)

We recently moved to a new dedicated server using Plesk 8. Apart from the usual grumbles of moving 80 domains nothing too bad happened. However, today I hit a weird problem with a slideshow pro Director install. After trying to login you get this message:
Could not connect to slideshowpro.net (using cURL): Couldn’t resolve host ’slideshowpro.net’.