Some Random Dude

Some Random Dude is a blog by P.J. Onori that covers design & technology in the broadest sense possible.

Archive for August, 2005

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More blogs coming to this domain

Well, it’s official — I’m killing my other hosting account/domain (www.spikedproductions.com). If anyone wishes to purchase it from me, by all means, please let me know.

All the content from that server will be re-located to here which includes three other blogs (my personal blog, and the blogs of my good friends, Will and Kellie). Since Media Temple is such a damned good hosting provider, I thought this would be a better home for everything.

Nothing like consolidation to make life just that much easier.

I’d also like to extend an invitation to host any other design/web development blogs on this domain as well. I’m running MT 3.11 and I make a point to keep the server nice and tidy. If you’re interested in some space, comment on this post and send me your current blog address.

How teh mnid raeds

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at teh rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can still raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid does not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Vrey intretsing.

Flash in HTTPS

This is probably a rare issue for most people, but one of my co-workers ran into a security warning when using embedded Flash in secure pages.

After a little Googling, I found out why the problem occurs and how to fix it. In case you’re too lazy, here’s the solution below:


<object classid="clsid:A67CDB6E-AE7D-11cf-96B8-344554540010" codebase="https://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/
swflash.cab #version=6,0,29,0" width="700" height="300">
      <param name="movie" value="FOO/FOO.swf">
      <param name="quality" value="high">

      <PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=opaque>
      <embed src="FOO/FOO.swf"
quality="high" wmode=opaque pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer "
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="700"
height="300"></embed>
</object>

Thanks Mind-Probe

Flash XML Caching Solution

I have found quite a few people run into this problem from time to time and there’s actually quite an easy solution to take care of such an issue:


xml.load("xmlFile.xml?"+Math.random());

Essentially, Flash will think that the file is a different URL each time it loads the file and the psuedo parameter (‘?+Math.random()’) will be ignored for the file request. Clever and effective.