This morning I had a need to draw some circles on the stage by clicking-and-dragging, this led me to building a little visual display for lines, mid-points, rects, ellipses, angles, and circles (from centre and from corner).
It is all pretty simple stuff, but I thought I’d post it in case anyone else finds it useful.
Yesterday I went to Flash Camp London (a free event sponsored by Adobe) where I found some of the sessions useful and enjoyed meeting up with my fellow Flasher friends. But did anyone else there notice the similarity between the cleaner blocks in the toilets and the Adobe AIR logo? Or was it just me
Either this was the inspiration behind the logo design or a cunning marketing drive by Adobe to subliminally get us all to create more AIR apps. You decide.
I’ve just discovered a way to generate a blank dialogue box in Flash CS3. This was on a PC, I’ve not tested the Mac version yet. You’ll need to have the Adobe AIR Update for Flash CS3 Professional installed.
Just follow these step-by-step instructions …
Open Flash CS3.
Create a new Flash File (Adobe AIR).
Save the file as ‘a&b.fla’.
Click on Commands >> AIR - Create AIR File.
Create a self-signed digital certificate if you don’t already have one, enter the password and click the ‘OK’ button.
Voila!
Basically it is the ampersand (&) that is causing the problem. I’m not sure exactly which reference to the ampersand is causing the problem. Let me know if the above steps work for you.
With the release of Acrobat 9 comes the new Acrobat.com website where you can upload and share documents online. One cool new feature is the ability to embed a PDF file on your website using the PDF Widget. It is basically a SWF movie that works like FlashPaper used to. Thanks to Lori DeFurio for making me aware of this and providing an explanation of how to create one yourself.
For ages I was getting tons of spam in my WordPress comments (email notifications that the comments were ready for moderation and approval). I was getting dozens and dozens of emails a day telling me that I had more and more comments ready to approve. It was driving me crazy.
So I tried installing the Akismet WordPress plugin after obtaining an API key (though had a bit of a problem for a while and was getting an error message). Eventually I got it to work, but a lot of spam was still getting through. Grrrrrr….
Then I came across the WP-SpamFree plugin. I installed it and almost immediately the spam stopped. I’ve had it installed now for several weeks and I don’t think I have had a single spam comment since (touch wood).
If your WordPress blog is suffering from excessive comment spam I highly recommend you install it.
June 3rd, 2009 by 
Adrian Parr 
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