Who popped my cherry?

Wow, so this blogging stuff’s pretty powerful… and a little scary. It seems the aggregator I’ve been visiting for the last couple of years has decided to add me – and I didn’t even need to ask! As I don’t quite have a handle on how this actually happened, it seems a bit mysterious to … Read more

Live reflection component with a twist!

This is my first foray into the flex world, and I’ve chosen to take some baby steps by extending a component that was published by Narciso Jaramillo over at http://rictus.com/muchado/ . As I’ve never published code that I’ve “extended” before, if I’m doing this in a way that would contravene the GPL licence that is … Read more

Continuing my observation of oddities and the new Flash 9 player

It seems that clicking the “About Adobe Flash Player 9…” takes me to a URL that doesn’t exist: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/fl4about What gives? Surely there’s a redirect from the old Macromedia site to the Adobe one? Or have a I managed to snag Adobe/Macromedia in the middle of some technology changeover…? EDIT: Man, I’ve gotta stop doing … Read more

Weird Flash upgrade error

When visiting the standard http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash page I am geting the following displayed in Firefox: Here’s a link to a screen grab Am assuming it’s something to do with the migration from Flash 8 to 9… is anyone else seeing this too? EDIT: Everything appears to be back to normal now, though I was seeing that … Read more

Hello world!

This is my first tentative step into the blogosphere… testing, testing, 1, 2, 3. Hopefully I’m coming through loud and clear. Ahem, firstly a bit about me. Names Jason Langdon, I’m a freelance web designer residing in Adelaide, South Australia. Been at it for almost 6 years now, so I’m probably well due to do … Read more