bunnyhero dev

My latest Amazon order arrived, including Colin Moock’s Essential ActionScript 3.0! My journey towards Flex and AIR continues slowly…

I still haven’t started looking at Facebook app development, but when I do, I’m sure I’ll be checking out the ever-growing list of resources out there, including Joey deVilla’s Facebook app tutorial and softwaredeveloper.com’s list of essential tools and tutorials.

I was excited to see SWFFix announce the release of a public alpha. I had begun to fear that the project was moribund. SWFFix is from the developers of SWFObject, UFO and the Flash player detection kit, joining forces to create what one hopes will be the best Flash-embedding method yet.
I haven’t tried it [...]

I need a new theme for this blog. I don’t really have the time to whip one up myself so I will probably be on the lookout for someone else’s that can be customized easily. K2 is clean and all but a new paint job is always nice.

Until today, I did not realize that any HTTP requests made by a Flash movie (including LoadVars.load(), MovieClip.loadMovie(), Sound.loadSound(), etc) includes cookies — the cookies that would normally be sent by the browser anyway. In retrospect, this makes sense and is perhaps even obvious: since the Flash player asks the browser to make the connection, [...]

I have discovered that the “reply” editing area is not always named “hc_0” or “ta_0“. No, the number following the underscore can be other numbers — it seems to correspond to the index of message in the conversation.
This gets more complex, because I forgot that more than one reply editing area can be open at [...]

UPDATE: Haha, alas this does not work all the time. Yep. See my next post… sigh.
After some time poking around with Firebug, here’s the updated code that also handles the “reply” text-editing area!

/* gmail seems to cycle between frames ‘v1′, ‘v2′ and ‘v3′. try all */
var success = false;
var editorNames = [ ‘hc_compose’, ‘ta_compose’, ‘hc_0′, [...]

I am working on some bookmarklets for Gmail. I discovered that targetting any specific element in the Gmail window is a bit tricky, due to Google’s interesting use of frames.
It turns out that Gmail swaps between using frames named “v1″ and “v2″ to display the main content (at least in Firefox). If I had to [...]

I have started using Mercurial for revision control and I am loving it. Easy to set up and use, fast, smooth — the complete opposite of my experience with setting up Subversion I haven’t tried any fancy branching or merging yet, though.

I’m futzing around with mod_rewrite again (I eventually plan to switch everything over to lighttpd, but until then…), and as I reread the docs, I remember how unhelpful diagrams like this are:

Someday when I suss it out I might write my own mod_rewrite guide.