Just spent almost the entire day trying to figure out what I was doing wrong when trying out manydifferentflash multi-file uploading widgets. All of them would give me a 302 redirect http error, even when testing locally.
So after much searching and reading and studying… and finally testing this on my Windows machine (which works fine); I’ve decided this is a bug in Flash 9 for Mac.
There’s not a problem when it’s uploaded to a script directly which returns a 200 OK header response first. But when you use a framework that uses mod_rewrite for every URL, it’s not easy to get around that.
If anyone else has had experience with this I’d love to hear from you. Very frustrating! Maybe it’s fixed in the Flash 10 beta? Maybe it’s not a bug; it’s a “feature”, right?
UPDATE: I went ahead and installed Flash10 hoping for the best, but with no luck. I was able to contact someone at Adobe who told me the Flash scripts will have to be recompiled in Flash10 to see if Flash10 would help. So installing Flash10 on my computer won’t make the scripts any different.
I’ve been developing a site this weekend and decided to go ahead and go live with yipURL.com with basic functionality. It’s yet another URL minimizer, but I do have unique things in the works for it! Try it out and give me your feedback!
I was recently playing with mod_rewrite and wanting a couple of subdomains to act as subdomains, but all others to redirect back to my site without the leading “www”. For example:
Not being a regular expression or mod_rewrite expert (or any resemblance of such), this was a bit of a challenge. But I did it with the help of a mod_rewrite and regular expression cheat sheet, as well as the excellent Apache URL Rewriting Guide.
So here it is for anyone else that could benefit. Just replace the bold parts with your own subdomains (and example with your domain).
Redirect without leading www: # Redirect deleting leading www to root domain if no specified subdomain is used
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(subdomain1|subdomain2)\.example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Redirect with leading www: # Redirect adding leading www to root domain if no subdomain is specified
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(subdomain1|subdomain2|www)\.example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
If you’re using CodeIgniter and mod_rewrite for pretty URLs, you’ll need to be sure to add these subdomains to the list of directories that can be accessed directly. # CodeIgniter writing
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt|css|user_files|subdomain1|subdomain2)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
Now this looks cool! Ubiquity from Mozilla is looking to connect “the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily”.
I recently had a chance to upgrade my iMac to the 2.8Ghz 24″ with the 800Mhz memory. I had 4GB of the 667Mhz memory on my previous iMac and never had problems with running out of memory. However, here’s my memory usage when playing music on iTunes using the shuffle mode with the cover flow on:
And here’s my memory usage just moments after I close iTunes:
Crazy! I did order 4GB of memory just yesterday so hopefully that will put me back where I was with my previous iMac.
There’s a growing number of these micro-blogging services. And while I’m signed up for all of them except Jaiku, I still don’t know which one to use primarily. I’m now also faced with the question of which one should I use for one of our websites to post more incremental updates that people can subscribe to.
I’ve been looking for a complete solution; an app that will post to all of them at the same time. And while someone has found something of a solution, it’s not a preferred method by any means.
Twitter seems to be the most popular though I’m not exactly sure why. Perhaps cause they were there first? I personally like the Pownce format; especially with Leah’s latest API release. But Tumblr offers a lot of options too like text, links, quotes, chats, photos, video; but no files (Pownce offers sending files).
And while it seems like there’s a lot to consider with four different main players, a year ago someone found as many as 111 Twitter look alikes internationally.
If you’re one of the lucky ones to be able to get one of the latest MacBooks with Multi-Touch, you’ve probably asked the same question I have: “How can I get Firefox to use the swipe gesture to go forwards and backwards like Safari does?”
This neat little Preference Pane addition will allow you to associate trackpad gestures with keyboard shortcuts; per application.
So this gives you exactly what you’re looking for: navigation for Firefox 3 (beta) via trackpad gestures. Only apps built with Cocoa are supported right now, so this won’t work with Firefox 2, sorry!
If you found that app useful, please consider making a small donation to Will! It helps make the world go round. =)
I used Boot Camp to make a little partition to dual boot into Windows XP SP3 on my MacBook Pro… and seeing how I have an nVidia 8600M video card with 256MB of dedicated memory in this little notebook, I thought I’d try out Day of Defeat: Source (I’m a semi-regular on a server there).
It was great (other than I didn’t have any sound). I was getting a regular 60-80fps. But it wasn’t long (1 minute?) before I heard the fans starting to spin up (apparently I’ve never had them go full speed before) and I could feel the heat through the keyboard.
So I lifted the MacBook up to feel the bottom which was now HOT. Easily 3 or 4 times hotter than it is under normal operating.
I quickly exited the game and the fans calmed down within a minute or two. And while it may work well for gaming… it doesn’t work well for gaming. There’s no way that much heat can be good for it. So while the power is there if I need it (video editing, photoshop, etc); it’s not there for gaming. I don’t even want to imagine the toll playing a game like that would take on the battery if I weren’t plugged in.
Anyone else have a different experience or opinion?
Recent Pownces
