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Rob's Blog - May 2008

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Here are Rob's Blog entries for May 2008.

Blog entries for other months can be found in the main blog index.

The Best Thing About Lewes...

... has to be Harveys Brewery.

It even has a shop so I was able to finally get hold of a bottle of Star Of Eastbourne ale. It's always sold out each Eastbourne Beer Festival so i've never had a chance to try it before.

Naturally i've also stocked up on a few of the other speciality beers not normally found in the pubs.

Wed 28/05/2008 12:54 Image196 - Harveys Brewery Lewes

Lifeblog Entry - Posted via Lifeblog from a Nokia smart phone
Entered: 2008-05-28 13:20:09
Modified: 2008-05-28 15:30:06
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More Development, Aren'tcha Just Sick Of It

I saw this Glenda Slagg-esqe poster on a wall in Lewes.

What would Auntie Glenda make of it?

Wed 28/05/2008 12:59 Image197 - More Development, Aren'tcha Sick Of It

Lifeblog Entry - Posted via Lifeblog from a Nokia smart phone
Entered: 2008-05-28 13:10:39
Modified: 2008-05-28 15:27:16
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Links for 2008-05-20

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Entered: 2008-05-21 00:15:02
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Links for 2008-05-13

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Entered: 2008-05-14 00:15:03
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Links for 2008-05-12

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Entered: 2008-05-13 00:15:07
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Links for 2008-05-08

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Entered: 2008-05-09 00:15:04
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Sussex Bluebells

Here are a few cameraphone photos of the bluebell woods at Bates Green Farm in East Sussex where I spent a lovely bank holiday Monday afternoon.

Mon 05/05/2008 14:02 Image187 - bluebells
Mon 05/05/2008 14:03 Image189 - bluebells
Mon 05/05/2008 14:30 Image190 - bluebells
Mon 05/05/2008 14:36 Image193 - bluebells

PERMALINK - Sussex Bluebells
Lifeblog Entry - Posted via Lifeblog from a Nokia smart phone
Entered: 2008-05-06 07:08:02
Modified: 2008-05-06 09:04:04
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getURL and Flash 9

We upgraded our Flash players to the current version today and found a few slides on our sites didn't work as expected.

When clicked, they were supposed to take you to other pages, but with the upgrade, old code was found to be broken.

Looking around, it appears the security model changed and we weren't aware of this. I think it's time to subscribe to the Flash RSS feed to keep on top of bug fixes and upgrades.

Anyway, it turned out our code could be fixed by just setting AllowScriptAccess to be "always" or "sameDomain", depending on the application. In the <object> tag this was achieved by adding...

<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always">

... and in the embed tag...

allowScriptAccess="always"

Those of you using SWFObject, the following JavaScript code does the trick...

so.addParam("allScriptAccess", "always");

This means when we call getURL() from ActionScript it is able to navigate to other pages on a foreign or the same domain.

There is a bit more information on this on the Adobe Flash knowledge base, Links from SWF files in HTML page no longer function (Flash Player 9).

PERMALINK - getURL and Flash 9
Entered: 2008-05-01 20:47:18
Modified: 2008-05-01 20:47:33
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