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Flash - Loading data from HTTPS server
You have a Flash SWF file on server http://www.somewhere.com. You are trying to load data with a Loader or URLLoader from an SSL server https://www.anotherplace.com. You have set up your crossdomain.xml file on anotherplace.com to allow-access-from domain www.somewhere.com. You get a sandbox security error and it fails to load. But your crossdomain.xml looks fine. What’s wrong?
phpMyAdmin import timing out
So you’ve got a big .sql file to import, but phpMyAdmin is timing out after 300 seconds. You’ve set PHP’s upload_max_filesize to accept huge files, and the script timeout to some ridiculous figure. You’ve set every Apache directive you can find. But it still times out after 300 seconds.Here’s the answer. Go into /phpmyadmin/config.inc.php. Find $cfg[’ExecTimeLimit’]. Set it to something more than 300. Done.
Safari doesn’t display valid XSLT and XML!!
Actually, it’s not Safari’s fault. This has happened to me, and has sat in the too-hard basket for a few weeks, but finally I decided to fix the problem. It’s actually really easy.
Toby's First Law
If a section of code does not work, but after looking at it you’ve come to the conclusion that it simply has to work, it’s more likely that it’s a different section causing the problem and the bit you’ve been staring at the past three hours is fine.
Juno
So it’s a movie about a sixteen-year-old getting pregnant. I have to admit to Lauren that my enthusiasm for seeing it rather than, say, American Gangster was moderately feigned. However, entirely beyond my expectations, about halfway through it suddenly became really interesting.
Recording TV subtitles
We recently spent a very long time trying to solve a particular problem. How do you record a live TV show, with closed captions (subtitles), and play it back with the subtitles showing? Sounds easy, but it’s actually a bit more complicated than one might expect.
Balcony BBQ
This being summer, we were on the hunt for a barbecue. This being a tiny box of an apartment we live in, we were specifically looking for a tiny barbecue. We found it in the Coleman RoadTrip grill.
It's all good
So the new job is pretty cool. Actually everything’s pretty good. Life is nice.
A New Job
I can’t say I’m not excited about starting the new job on Monday. Because I am. Not ‘jumping on the sofa’ excited, because there is a kitten on it at the moment and she would be nonplussed. Anya does nonplussed very well. Her nonplussed expression only briefly predates her ‘I am trying to bite your fingers off’ mood, and is a good warning to desist what you were doing.
