‘code’ Archive

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 [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Useful plesk 8 administration sql commands

If you manage a dedicated web server like we do at sandbox. Are you constantly having to call up forgotten user names and passwords for clients and colleagues?