AMFPHP Fatal Errors After PHP 5.3 Upgrade (Part 2)

As promised in Part 1, I’m documenting yet another issue that must be addressed in your AMFPHP installation upon upgrading to PHP 5.3. This issue stems from the usage of the [code lang="php"]eregi_replace[/code] function that has been deprecated in PHP 5.3. If you run into aREAD MORE

AMFPHP Fatal Errors After PHP 5.3 Upgrade (Part 1)

If you experience the following error in your AMFPHP-based applications:

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘VerboseException’ with message ‘date(): It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you usedREAD MORE

The application Finder cannot be opened -10810

If you have experienced this issue since upgrading your Mac to OSX 10.6, here’s the skinny on what’s going on and what you can do about it. Basically, this occurs when attempting to access external drives (ie, USB, Firewire, iDisk, etc). Symptoms of this errorREAD MORE

Transmit and Amazon S3

Just discovered that Transmit 3.7 has S3 support. You can manage it using the Advanced Preferences tab which you access by holding down the Option key while clicking on the Transmit application menu. From there you will see an extra preference tab where you canREAD MORE

What’s In A Name?

I recently overheard a conversation about IDE naming and its impact on an individual or company’s bottom line. There were numerous supporters of the notion that the name of the tool an individual or company chooses has direct correlation to the number and types ofREAD MORE

TextMate and Regular Expressions

A lot of Mac users have become familiar with a powerful text editor in the form of TextMate. It combines some of the power that is Unix with some of the cleaness that is OSX to give you an editor that could replace some IDEs.READ MORE

Flash on the iPhone Hits Another Snag!!

Adobe CEO, Shantanu Narayen, confirms to Bloomberg TV at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland recently that a Flash player for the iPhone won’t be coming anytime soon. We all know Steve Jobs doesn’t think highly of the player when it comes to its viabilityREAD MORE

AS3 :: BackgroundFill

Finally updated the source for my AS2 :: BackgroundFill class to work for AS3. Just define your gradient, instantiate the class and you’re good to go. Check out and download the source @ http://labs.otuome.com/as3/background-fill.

New Screencasts Available

Posted (2) new walkthroughs this morning on my labs site. The 1st demonstrates basic usage of the KwikUML AIR app (model creation/editing, stub code generation, etc).

The 2nd one is an overview of, the soon-to-be-released, KwikDoc AIR app. This app demonstrates a really cool way to integrateREAD MORE