Monday, September 20, 2004
I had an intermittent problem over the weekend that meant my application was only working 1 in 6 or 7 times. The problem seemed to be when I made my second call to my php class. I tried using delayExecute() to send the 2 calls but still I had errors. I searched through the forums and finally came up with a possible solution. It seems that you can't use mixed case for your php functions, I'm not sure why but hey presto it fixed my app and it works every time now.Jon 8:54 AM Permalink
Friday, September 17, 2004
I'm not sure how many people use Ghostwire's phpObject the Flash Remoting alternative and yes I am aware that it is different in the way it works to the AMFPHP remoting option which does use the Actionscript Messaging Format hence the name, but it really is rather good!I am currently working on a kiosk based application to run on a touch screen display. I am working with a php developer who is creating the content management system so I thought phpObject looked like a good option and seeing as it will run over a local network it should be pretty quick. I was suprised how easy it is to get up and running a simple download from Ghostwire's homepage, run the .mxp file and copy a couple of php files into your webroot and away you go! The only problem I soon encountered was how to return a complete recordset from the database as the documentation is pretty sparse, however a few minutes scanning the forums and I got my answer. Thanks to 'Strange' for the code and here is the post with my follow up post to show how to use this code without components.
Jon 9:04 AM Permalink
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Mike Davidson has released version 2 beta of 'Scalable Inman Flash Replacement' and a rather nice example to boot. See the article for a full list of featuresI might look into changing over to this technique when I can find some time.
Jon 5:16 PM Permalink
Monday, September 13, 2004
Yesterday I ran the Sydney 10Km bridge run, which has to be one of the most spectacular courses to run in the world, running across the harbour bridge then up to Hyde park, down to Mrs Macquaries chair and then looping back to Hyde park and down the hill to finish in front of the Opera House. I managed a time of 51:15 which put me in a provisional place of 994th, how do I know that? Well Telstra have some clever technology that, once registered, sent me an SMS within 5 minutes of crossing the line which had my race time and placing so far, but with 9000 odd people behind me there was a chance that someone beat my time. Nice use of SMS technology I think.Jon 9:07 AM Permalink
Friday, September 10, 2004
On father's day it hailed heavily in Sydney, I have collected all the photos that have been going round on email and put them up on my Flickr account, you have to see these, there was so much hail some guy managed to snow board down the grass bank at Bondi Beach!http://www.flickr.com/photos/freaksauce/
Jon 1:10 PM Permalink
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
I think someone in Finland is taking the challenge a little too seriously!http://www.valtio.org/tex/index.php?p=66
And while I'm posting humourous links, watch the gigantic B-52 model plane previously featured on Gizmodo crash and burn!
Jon 2:36 PM Permalink
Friday, September 03, 2004
This site (JC The Store) uses Flash video to chop up their TV ad into a montage of mini clips. Nice!Jon 9:50 AM Permalink
Thursday, September 02, 2004
Looks like Mozilla got bored of the old website?!Jon 5:08 PM Permalink
I have been using the following hack to apply certain css rules to IE Win, but not IE Mac or any other browser:
/* Hides from IE5-mac \*/
* html .box {top: 4px;}
/* End hide from IE5-mac */
(Holly Hack)
However after glancing through the Evolt CSS tricks article (via Nick Bradbury) I realised I could condense most of my hacks to just use '!important' instead as most of the time I didn't actually need to hide these rules from IE Mac.
.box {
top:2px !important;
top:4px;
}
Much better.
Jon 11:34 AM Permalink
I just had to share this little anecdote.
My mom took my nephew, Edward (3) a Fimbles comic (I think that is the correct link?) which had details of how to make a mobile so they spent quite a while assembling it and every time they had finished one of the characters Edward picked it up and said hello.It took mom a while to realise that he thought they were making a phone!!
Ah...techno kids!
Jon 8:50 AM Permalink