Archive for September, 2008
September 4, 2008 at 9:48 am · Filed under Actionscript 2, Flash, PHP, Remoting, SWX
If you have been using the FP 10 RC and came across a site or widget using SWX, you undoubtedly noticed that it wasn't working. After a couple of days of back-and-forth on the SWX mailing list, the issue has been found and a solution posted.
[Update September 5, 2008 - a different fix was suggested in an attempt to allow SWX to continue to be used by hitting the gateway directly, allowing for easier debugging. Code below reflects this update.]
The problem is that FP 10 does not like one of the headers returned from SWX. To fix the issue, open SwxAssembler.php and change line 538 from:
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="data.swf"');
to:
header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="data.swf"');
This seems to fix the issue, as all SWX sites this has been tested on now work in FP 10.
Thanks to FabrÃcio for finding the proper solution, and to Folkert Hielema and Ben Lagoutte for helping test broken sites and debug the issue.
September 2, 2008 at 3:32 pm · Filed under <head> Web Conference, Conferences
Aral has announced today that that Singularity Web Conference is now called <head> Conference. Why the name change? In Aral's words:
You see, we came <head> to <head> with a company called Singularity Limited when their lawyers sent us a letter stating that they had registered Singularity as a trademark for, among other things, conferences. Although it doesn't appear that Singularity Limited currently runs any conferences, we decided to keep our <head>s and proactively change the name of the conference to <head> off a potentially lengthy, complicated, and costly legal conversation.
You can read a press release on the conference site with all of the official details, but know that nothing is changing here except for the name of the conference. The speakers (including myself) and their sessions will all still be present.
It should be noted that Aral has decided to extend the 'early bird' discount through the end of September, so you can still purchase your ticket for only $99 until September 30th.
I'll be posting more details about my session, Working with SWX: The Native Data Format for the Flash Platform, in the very near future along with updates on the Portland, Oregon local conference hub.
September 2, 2008 at 12:41 pm · Filed under Adobe, CS4, Fireworks, Flash, Flex, Illustrator
According to Flash Platform Evangelist Lee Brimlow, Adobe will announce the CS4 suite on September 23rd via a web broadcast that you can register for today. The news is also posted on Adobe.com, so it is safe to say this is official.
Lee is careful to mention, however, that this is not the release date for CS4 -- just the announcement of new features and what one can expect when CS4 is available for purchase. I'm guessing that, like Adobe did with CS3, they will post additional betas such as Flash CS4 to Adobe Labs for everyone to play with after the announcement on the 23rd. Dreamweaver CS4, Fireworks CS4 and Soundbooth CS4 betas are already available for download on Adobe Labs.
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