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Friday, April 17, 2009

Never use Flash 9 to save as Flash 8 and do further development

The biggest mistake of today was to start developing in Flash 9, then saving it as Flash 8 and copying it to another computer to further develop it in Flash 8.
You will get all sorts of weird bugs. I was just trying to play a simple flv video clip. It was 4 minutes long and the file was quite big due to the resolution. I wasn't observant enough so when the clip stopped, it was supposed to trigger an onstatus event NetStream.play.stop and do other things. However, what I got was that the clip ended prematurely and restarted the whole code from start again. I thought is was socket timeout, buffer problems, etc but after debugging the whole night, I decided to rewrite in a fresh project and guess what? It worked perfectly, with the same source code. Flash 9 is a disaster! Don't give people the option to save in Flash 8 when it doesn't work!!!

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

visit to geek terminal

Curious about the name of the place, I went down to geek terminal to take a look at the place.
First of all, wireless internet can be found at MacDonald's and wireless@sg is everywhere too. The power strips or power supply tracks on the floor is old technology. It was on sale 3-4 years ago and can be found in some offices, meeting rooms, and they require an adapter to the strip. The idea by this company (Eubiq) is very cool. To plug in your power hungry gadgets anywhere. But when you run out of adapters (which cost quite a bit), you're pretty much out of power as well.
An all-in-one photocopier machine, projector with screen, much like a meeting room. What so geeky about the things at Geek terminal?
Everything found in there isn't that geeky to me.