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Musings on the Red Dead Redemption ending |
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Anyone who knows me will tell you I'm an avid gamer, I love gaming, I get properly involved in the story, the setting and the characters. The latest offering from Rockstar is a very fine example of modern storytelling, it is also a very good example of where the modern games industry is in comparison to the other major media channels (Books, film and TV).
I've read a few negative reviews of the last section of this game, and having just finished it I thought I'd document my spin on it, be warned though, if you haven't finished Red Dead Redemption this article may spoil some elements of it for you.
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Adding a Blu-ray Player to Your Harmony Remote |
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I recently purchased a Blu-ray player and the picture on my TV has never looked better. I suspect that at some point, many of you will replace your DVD player with a Blu-ray player like me. So, I wanted to share with you the steps on how to add a Blu-ray player and to your Harmony remote using Logitech Harmony remote software.
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Flex webservices security error accessing url |
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I've been working with some client side flash developers recently and we came across an unusual error that was being thrown in a Flex application when we were sending a webservice request to a Coldfusion server.
The error was "Security error accessing URL". I thought I'd overcome this a long time ago by using the cross-domain.xml file to allow server access to services.
It appears that there is a security issue with Flash 9 that requires the following line to be added to the CrossDomain.xml file:
I'm guessing that it is enabling access for SOAP requests to any remote services on that server.
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Cross site AJAX HttpRequest problems and how to create a Proxy handler |
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Most of us are familiar with the AJAX post() and getJSON() methods of remotely calling and passing around data, I use them with abundance when building applications. One thing I had not considered until recently is that all my AJAX Http requests are usually internal to that application, which also means they are on the same server and domain.
I recently jumped into a project where the application spanned 24 domains, and had been developed to use a core component library to help code re use. The problem with this arose when you are on one domain (www.domain1.com) and you want to make a request to a different domain (www.domain2.com). You encounter something called the 'same-Origin' policy.
This article deals with how to create a proxy to handle cross site AJAX http Requests.
