27
Feb
2009
We in the online advertising industry make banners. A lot of banners. They’re a necessary evil of online advertising and annoy us all on a regular basis, but they get results, and that’s all that matters in the long run.
We don’t publish these banners ourselves, instead relying on various Media Centrals to deploy and distribute [...]
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09
Jan
2009
One of my New Years resolutions is to learn Ruby On Rails, the hip young web development framework popularized by sites and applications such as Basecamp or Twitter. Being on a mac, installing and running rails is dead easy, just a few terminal commands. I’d toyed around with it a few months ago, but didn’t [...]
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06
Jan
2009
I encountered a strange bug in Flash player 10 today. A simple flash animation, scripted in AS3, which gave no errors inside the CS3 IDE threw the following error when run inside the browser (which was running flash player 10):
SecurityError: Error #2000: No active security context.
Now, the animation itself is completely static, no external content [...]
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