20080101 “Fix” for Leopard “bug” when mounting an iPod via Firewire

I was using the firewire hub which the Apple Cinema Display provides for connecting my ipod mini. This worked perfectly with Tiger: iTunes opened each time I connected the iPod to the cable, and it also charged it as expected. But once I upgraded to Leopard this wasn’t working anymore; the iPod was charged but [...]

20071104 Warning! Flex Builder Plugin for Eclipse will delete your Eclipse folder!! Aaagh!

Since I don’t have Flash Develop on my mac mini but I have plenty of space because I upgraded its hard disk, I thought it was a good moment to install Eclipse and use it at least for ActionScript3 — although I’m quite tempted of doing the same for PHP stuff; the PHP Development Tools [...]

20070924 Security sandbox violation? How come!

I’ve received a few error reports on a for-fun-only flash thing/experiment/joke I did some time ago, the next captcha generation for myspace forms. At first I thought it had been my fault, due to my inexperience in flash, but after having been working more time with sounds in flash, I found the problem is not [...]

20070703 VerifyError: Error #1025: An invalid register 1 was accessed

If you need to parse some XML with namespaces in ActionScript 3 you may find this error quite soon: VerifyError: Error #1025: An invalid register 1 was accessed It all comes because of this line: default xml namespace = myXML.namespace(); It is needed in order to access the values in the namespaced value so removing [...]

20070517 Array.indexOf in Internet Explorer

According to this document at Mozilla Developer Center, Javascript 1.5 has been implemented in a browser since at least the first releases of Mozilla as open source browser, which means, in other words, since around 1998. Let’s assume it was 2002 which is marked as the release of the 1.0 version. And I was doing [...]