AOL, the wonderful company that they are, require any mail to be sent to them to be from a server with a valid reverse DNS lookup (ptr) record. If you’re finding emails bouncing back from AOL (and some others) make sure your mail server’s domain name server has an an appropriate ptr record setup. This [...]
Continue readingI have recently had re-emphasised one of my first lessons in learning OOP (Object Orientated Programming). If coming from a procedural background: “Forget 95% of what you already know” The majority (if not all) of the developer-geek type people I have met all originally learnt procedural programming. Also the majority, at some point, thought of [...]
Continue readingI’ve just written up my first tutorial on using Fluorine, the open source Flash remoting solution for the .net platform. Have a read and leave any feedback in the comments here. Introduction to Flash Remoting with Fluorine
Continue readingFluorine is an excellent open source project for .net developers as an alternative to Adobe’s commercial remoting tool. I have noticed there isn’t too much documentation out there for .net users wishing to get into remoting as opposed to the php offering amfphp so thought i’d contribute. What is Fluorine? Fluorine is an open source [...]
Continue readingHere I intend to build a collection of useful tutorials across a range of technologies 1 – Introduction to Flash Remoting with Fluorine 2 – Free Flex 2 Development Environment
Continue readingAdobe’s preferred windows installer seems to be InstallAnywhere, I was just trying to install the remoting components and got the error: “Please select another location to extract the installer to” There was plenty of disk space and I had full admin privileges, turned out to be CA etrust antivirus i was running, disabled that and [...]
Continue readingAdobe have recently announced the official launch of Flex 2 which has had alot of press since launching pre-release versions on labs over the past few months. Also a preview version of Flash Professional 9 Actionscript 3.0 is avialable for download on labs. Both of these tools will run on the newly released Flash Player [...]
Continue readingI’m pretty sure that almost any business or freelancer/contractor has wondered about the validity of Email contracts and personal guarentees. This article on the IoD site summarises a recent case. In this case, an email containing the offer of a personal guarantee of £25,000 was sent by the director of one company to another company [...]
Continue readingI originally set up this site on my laptop whilst I was setting up a server to host it on. As a result of which all of the previous posts were all viewable to the massive audience of me, myself and I. However I have now got everything setup and hosted as desired and am [...]
Continue readingI happened across a technology known as Xgl in my new exploration of the world of Linux. First thoughts were along the lines of “sounds nice, but whats the use?” when reading about 3D desktops and transparent windows. However, I then watched a video by Novell and thought “Looks REALLY cool, i’ll have a play [...]
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