Archive - 2007

Flash-based online BBC catch-up launches

I mentioned before (Adobe saves the BBC's iPlayer) this was coming but it's online now over at www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/. And it all seems, as expected, to work very well.
If our V+ PVR ever fails to record something, at least we have a backup.

Using RSL cache in Flex Builder

One of the reasons I love Builder (apart from CTRL-O and CTRL-SHIFT-R) is that I've actually managed to make the new RSL cache feature of Flash Player work, when previously I'd failed totally to do it using the free command line SDK compiler.

Kubuntu 7.10, Eclipse and Flex Builder

Getting Eclipse and Flex Builder to work together on my Kubuntu laptop was a lot easier than at work - because it's all 32-bit, mainly.

Bizarre Gallery plugin update error

If during the upgrade of the Gallery2 module for Drupal you see an error like this:

all_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: 
First argument is expected to be a valid callback,
'gallery_admin_settings' was given in /home/drupal/includes/form.inc

 

Another reason why the government can't be trusted with the National ID Card Database

The (predictable) response from the government whenever anyone over the last 2 days has tried to tie the latest cock-up at HMRC to potential problems with the ID Card database, Darling says it'll be fine because they're 'biometric'.

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