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  • Does Leadership Matter?

    Essay assignment for school. Long…

  • Send me a log file

    Do you have a Counterstrike or Half-Life server log file? Please <a href=”mailto:jesse@jessewarden.com?subject=Log File”>send it to me</a>!

  • Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy – I’m Stuck!

    4th mission, where you head to Burak or some junk. This facilty has 5 bombs. When you defuse them, your supposed to head back to your ship, but the door I came in was locked. I searched EVERYWHERE, in the game and including google… no dice. I wanted to experience the game from the beginning, but since there is obviously a bug, or I’m dumb as nails, off to multiplayer… to kick it dual-saber style!

  • Sample Flash 2004 App #1: RSS Reader

    *** Updated @ 1:59pm EST 9/24/2003 ***

    Here is the source code for the sample app I made. It simply uses the Flash Pro Accordion component with RSS XML parsed from various blog sites.

    Illustrates:
    – how to use the new factory method createObject (used to use attachMovie)
    – shows how to use the new callbacks for events (used to be setClick/setChangeHandler (“handlerName”, scopedObject))
    – how to get around the security restrictions easily using PHP (10 lines of code)
    – how to preload components & classes to allow your preloaders to work in frame 1

    Cons:
    – I forward reference functions (I got enough shlack from Erik, no more please…)
    – I don’t use the XMLConnector component; I couldn’t figure out how to send variables using it to PHP, so just used a LoadVar’s object to get the XML and then pass it to an XML object to parse it
    – no loading bar; there are more events than one knows what to do with, so there is little excuse not showing a loading bar while the XML data is retreived form the websites

    Hope this helps you learn, as I learned a lot by this small project.

    BTW, I straight ganked this idea from Michael at <a href=”http://www.hollowcube.com”>Hollowcube.com</a>. He had one he built in MX very similiar, so that’s why I put his blog first!

    Source – ZIP

    Update: I have updated the PHP file based on comments from Bertrand Saint-Guillain and Darron Schall to be more secure (I think). Therefore, please know that the php file, both the last one and this one, are a security risk; use at your own discretion, or find a PHP guru who can make it safer.

    Comment from Bertrand, “…in fact that (my latest change) should do the trick , but your php script can still be used as an anonymous gateway by anyone (which is not such a big issue, but someone could try to anonymously brute force an htaccess authentification through your script)”