FlashApe

Saw Shrek 2 today, it was great. I highly recommend it. Me and my girlffriend also beat the gamecube game Shrek 2. It was pretty good as well, but more importantly it got my girl into playing video games (yeah!!).

Internet Boy ‘Posed As Spy to Arrange Own Murder’

This is just your basic “boy-A likes boy-B”, “boy-A dupes boy-B into thinking he is an older woman in a chat room”, “boy-A creates a fictional world to try and get boy-B to kill kim” story.

The court heard that the victim in the case was a 15-year-old boy, Mark, who was groomed by John, 14, in an “elaborate matrix of deceit” involving six fictional characters and correspondence totaling 56,000 lines of text in an MSN chat room.
The fictions convinced Mark, now 17, that he must murder John, now 15, (pseudonyms to preserve the childrens’ identity) because he had a terminal brain tumor. He was told that his reward would be money, a job as a British secret service agent and sex with the spy, whom he believed was a middle-aged woman.

I just got hired as Senior Flash Developer for DNA Studio. Seems like it should be a pretty interesting career there. I’m looking forward to working on some really cool stuff.

My first project was wrapping up a site for Michelob Light, a subsite of their main site for a promotion called “Summer at the Movies”. Check it out at www.michelobmovies.com.

Polish archaeologists have unearthed 13 lecture halls believed to be the first traces ever found of ancient Egypt’s University of Alexandria

I always find this stuff so interesting. I mean, its kinda cool to think of the people who were roaming the earth thousands of years ago, and how thier societies functioned, and things like that.

JesterXL posted some sweet code for quickly creating a web service connection in flash. Sounds like he’ll be posting some more good stuff too.

Boston.com / News / World / U.S. presents more photos to bolster case that it attacked foreign fighters, not Iraqi wedding party

I bring up this story because I think it’s interesting to see all the blatant attempts at media manipulation, by ALL sides. Between this and the story of the faked photos of the prisoner abuse by British soldiers, it’s gotta make you wonder if we’ll ever know the truth about what’s going on in the world.

Got some good info in this post from brajeshwar at Team MM about using xml and SOs, namely working from a copy of the xml in the shared object instead of directly manipulating the data in the SO itself.

See the modified code in he extended entry.

bc[as]. // Create SO
function createSO(soName, soPath) {
so = SharedObject.getLocal(soName, soPath);
// for catching “pending” status returned if user has denied LSO access.
so.onStatus = function(oInfo) {
if (oInfo.code == “SharedObject.Flush.Failed”) {
gotoAndStop(”failure”);
} else if (oInfo.code == “SharedObject.Flush.Success”) {
gotoAndStop(”success”);
}
};
}

bc[as]. function saveXML(myXML) {
// Create a copy of the XML obj and save it.
var newXML = new XML(myXML.toString());
so.data.myXML = newXML;
// never use the size argument with flush,
// had a mind blowing crash issues with Mac Flash Player 7
var bSuccess = so.flush();
if (bSuccess == true) {
gotoAndStop(”success”);
} else if (bSuccess == false) {
// false means User has manually denied LSO access,
// Have to coax this user to be nice
gotoAndStop(”failure”);
} else if (bSuccess == “pending”) {
gotoAndStop(”pending”);
}
}

bc[as]. // Return saved myXML
function getXML() {
return so.data.myXML;
}

bc[as]. function getUserData() {
// get saved xml
myXML = getXML();
if (myXML == null) {
// xml not found create it here.
myXML = new XML();
myXML.ignoreWhite = true;
// append child etc….
// save xml to so.
saveXML(myXML);
}
}

bc[as]. // app entry point.
function main() {
createSO(”JTIA2″, _url);
// create LSO JTIA2 in domain _url
getUserData();
}

bc[as]. main();

I love craigslist. I’ve bought a lot of stuff from there, found my apartment there, and gotten a good majority of my work from there over the past couple of years. Since I work mostly as a freelancer, and being that the type of work I do doesn’t necessarilly require working an office, I would go around to all the different craigslist cities and serch for posts for flash work. I got tired of wasting time going around to each differnt city’s site though, so I wrote a php script that will allow you to enter a keyword and search all the different cities at once (ok, right now it only searches LA, NY, San Diego, San Francisco, Honolulu, Chicago. and Seattle). You can choose any category to search in as well. I’m calling it “craigsearch”. It’s obvioulsy still being developed, and there will be updates soon, such as being able to select which cities to search (intead of having to go through them all).

craigsearch

ok, i can’t believe no one who programmed this thing could have seen the potential for abuse here…

Church of Fools

The Church of Fools said Wednesday it has withdrawn the “shout” button, which allows visitors to address everyone who is present

my guess is that lasted about 5 seconds…

I was checking out a new blog from a guy by the name of John Robinson. Not sure ifs a brand new blog or a just a new version of an old one, but he had some great links on there, directly related to stuff i was currently working on.

In this post he talks about the xml-rpc librbary for flash. I never knew about this, and it could come in real handy for a lot of stuff that I do.

Even better than that, this post talks about a way to send a parameter to a script using fscommand. Now thats pretty sweet.