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Three for Monday

More Macromedia Adobe Surprises

Buy this book at Amazon.com!I thought it would be cute and neat to load an *.FLA file from a Linux server into Flash running in Windows via SftpDrive. Macromedia Adobe does not think this is cute or neat. I’m sure that this scenario was not even technically possible when the code that load Flash files was first written. When a Flash file—especially one that contains Library links to other components—loads from a non-Windows drive, errors are likely to occur…

Introducing OpenLaszlo” is out there for me to read. What’s motivating is that OpenLaszlo has audio support, featuring the LzAudio service. And let’s not forget about the advertorial SoundBlox.

After reading about the Motion-Twin ActionScript 2 Compiler, yet another level of Macromedia Adobe hell is revealed. This revelation leads to the ActionScript Development Tool this “unstable” eclipse release is a part of the FAME tool.

A Virtual Machine Beat-down

I took a few serious blows trying to compact my Linux Virtual machine. This came after reading “Compacting the virtual hard disk of a Linux virtual machine.” Surely this article applies to virtual hard disks with a hard limit. My disk expands up to 9GB and nearly did so when I tried to “zero out” my free space.

This whole waste of time started when I got the idea (from “Top Ten Tips for Using Virtual PC 2004”) of using contig to defragment my *.VHD file.

WordPress, Drupal and Others are High-Maintenance Web Applications!

This might be one of those “total cost to use” issues but there is no excitement here about upgrading WordPress. It has nothing I am aware of like an apt or yast package-based system (like PECL even). There was enthusiasm for Drupal but quickly the party faded when I saw no other way to apply CSS to a Drupal site without tending to the administrative interface as well. So in Drupal you can have, say, four public-facing CSS items to design but several dozen CSS issues for Drupal stuff that the public might never see.

An article like “Getting a WordPress Tune Up” is great for geeks with one Blog and lots of spare time. I can’t see myself maintaining even dozens of these sites for future clients. It is a compelling reason to just send people to WordPress.com and let WordPress people handle the maintenance.

This Blog for example has a spam database set up by Spam Karma 2 that is freaking huge! Now that I finally understand that askimet.com exists to share spam problems with WordPress people and the WordPress community (and now that WordPress people have more bandwidth) I’m ready to drop Spam Karma.

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