http://www.gamecreatures.com/blog Software Development Adventures Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:42:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What's wrong with the following Rails code? class ResourceController < ApplicationController DEFAULT_OPTIONS = { :disposition => 'inline' } def send_file1 send_file 'flash1.swf', DEFAULT_OPTIONS end def send_file2 send_file 'flash2.swf', DEFAULT_OPTIONS end end This code works perfectly in development mode. In production ... http://www.gamecreatures.com/blog/2008/11/21/production-gotcha-rails-send_file-seems-to-corrupt-files/ No I really don't like JBuilder that much. But I really hate the workspace thing in Eclipse. The problem: At the company I work for, we have a lot of modules written in JBuilder. The gui designer layouts are not compatible with any other IDE. Even The newest JBuilder, which simply ... http://www.gamecreatures.com/blog/2008/11/06/victory-installing-jbuilder-2006-on-vista/ Searching the internet I found the following e-mail validation routine: function isValidEmailAddress( address ) { return String(address).match(/^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,7})+$/); } Feed the following (invalid) address to the routine 123456789012345678901234567890abcdefg Result: IE hangs, need a complete browser restart!! Maybe you need to be very very patient! Firefox detects a slow script I think this is pretty strange!! Click the link below to test ... http://www.gamecreatures.com/blog/2008/06/10/crash-ie-slow-down-firefox-with-this-e-mail-validation-routine/ Well sounds simple. But it caused me a severe headache. I created a movieclip with a text field, that needed to scroll horizontally from left to right. The text must be readable because you must type this word before it reaches the end... The movieclip graphics moved very smoothly, only the textfield ... http://www.gamecreatures.com/blog/2008/05/20/flash-actionscript-smooth-horizontal-text-scrolling/ PHP not listening when you try to flush data. Try the following, it helped for me: @ob_flush(); // try a normal flush flush(); If PHP isn't flushing it could be your webserver that's collecting your output for gzipping: mod_gzip_on no This worked for me.. http://www.gamecreatures.com/blog/2008/05/19/phps-frustrating-flush/ (Sorry for the format, it's a straight copy from my DokuWiki) This is my situation: * I've got a FreeBSD server which runs PHP, Apache, Mysql, Courier Imap. * I've multiple clients which run Thunderbird as my mail client. I'm using imap for mail access * My thunderbird ... http://www.gamecreatures.com/blog/2008/04/30/synchronization-of-calendar-contacts-on-my-windows-mobile-horde-and-thunderbird/ I wrote a very nice routine which would iterate over a few days. Today I found my loop never ending !?! And this is very scary because the routine is a background process that needs to iterate over the last x-days. But there's a problem when you're living in The Netherlands ... http://www.gamecreatures.com/blog/2008/03/31/2008-03-30-to_timetomorrow-timenowto_date/ Currently we're at the point of a big shift/hype of (Web) Application Development. The development of Rich Internet Applications. (RIA). A RIA is an application that runs via the web, probably via a webbrowser though this isn't a requirement. The idea is that RIA makes this application work like a local ... http://www.gamecreatures.com/blog/2008/02/05/choosing-a-direction-for-rich-internet-applications/ The h method you use in a Ruby on Rail View, isn't available in a model or in a controller. That's very frustrating. An alternative method to use is: CGI::escapeHTML( string_to_escape ) http://www.gamecreatures.com/blog/2008/01/29/using-the-h-method-in-a-controller-model/ Currently I'm running a mongrel cluster for my rails application. This works much nicer then the FastCGI version. There was only one problem, I had an .htaccess file to restrict access to the public directory. AuthName "Somewhere" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /home/nobody/.htpasswd Require valid-user The problem was I needed to enter this login data 2 times. ... http://www.gamecreatures.com/blog/2008/01/21/apache-authentication-and-mongrel-cluster/