Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • Hand over the TabBar, and no one gets hurt…

    Ok, Macromedia’s been holding out. Discussing some Flash stuff with some colleague?s and it seems they have a component I, and another developer don’t in their copy of Flash MX 2004 Pro: TabBar.

    Now, it’s not in the StandardComponents.fla, which is the source components, and I just heard there is also no TabView.as file in mx > controls in the classpath. Anyway, it’s a Halo version of the TabView component (DRK 3, Component Set 5).

    Frankly, I WANT IT! Is this a DevNet subscription only type of thing?

  • Spammed? My Blacklist Too

    I have added some custom URL’s in my time, so following the lead of <a href=”http://www.markme.com/mesh/archives/004206.cfm”>Mike Chambers</a>, I’m linking to <a href=”https://www.jessewarden.com/blacklist.txt”>my blacklist</a> as well. It might help also if you close comments on the postings that are older, but are still getting spammed if your using MT.

    Lock and Load.

  • Update your MT, HQ, this is JXL under heavy fire…

    “HQ, this is Dust Devil taking heavy fire! We were just cluster bombed by 207.44.162.2, consisting of 200+spam comments containing 24-packed urls, request air support!!!”

    “Roger that Dust Devil, MT-blacklist OTW on your position. ETA, 2 minutes. Hang in there, son.”

    *crackle* *crackle* *hiss*

    “..hiss…SEMPER FI!!!”

    BOOOM!!!

    :: 2 minutes later ::

    …”HQ, 207.44.162.2 banned, urls blocked, spam comments destroyed, and blog crystal clean after a refresh. Suggest we upgrade MT to 2.66+ to prevent future incursions, sir.”

    “Copy that, Dust Devil, scheduled tomorrow at o-eight hundred hours. Good job, soldier! Carry on.”

    —

    Suck it spammers, I’m armed and dangerous!

  • Dynamic Runtime Shared Libraries Idea

    Got the idea reading <a href=”http://www.peterjoel.com/blog/index.php?archive=2004_01_01_archive.xml#107436735658229384″>Peter Hall’s suggestion</a> for new file formats based on calling the Flash Player the Flash Virtual Machine.

    When a symbol is exported in a SWF, that SWF now exposes that symbol, by linkage name, to whatever SWF has pointer to it. In reverse, when a symbol is imported for runtime sharing, that SWF now points that symbol to the SWF it’s assigned to get the symbol from.

    Now, it’d be phat as nuts if we could do at least part of the above dynamically. The only new requirement would be “symbol creation”. Currently, we can create instances on the fly, but the “classes” they are derived from are hardcoded into the SWF; the symbol. This ability would allow some pretty neat abilities at runtime.