Forty Weeks uses facebook a lot (check out their facebook page) and it appears that their site, which is built in Wordpress, is not feeding facebook pictures and descriptions to attach to links. Lets see what is needed to fix that…
Instead facebook is printing out a bunch of commented out javascript code as the description [...]

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At long last Drupal 7 has been released so I eagerly downloaded it and set up a test site. First impression is that it’s great! Really great! Lots of enhancements to the ui and a number of those must-install modules are now pulled into the core. I’m still testing it out but here’s a few [...]

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Troubleshooting Drupal modules can be hard if you have a lot of them plus a complex structure for where they’re saved – especially if there are multiple copies and multiple sites out there. If you update your module and suspect there is another copy of the module but you don’t know where, this sql will [...]

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I’ve been using the jquery cookie plugin created an age ago by Klaus Hartl (stilbuero.de) but it looks like his site is down? It’s a very easy to use plugin – not all that complicated but I thought I’d post our couple of most basic uses here since we had to use it recently and [...]

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Microsoft: Hey Wordpress.com – how would you like to take over our 30 million Live Spaces users?
Wordpress: Sure – what do we owe you for it?
Microsoft: Nothing. And we’ll even tell everyone how good your service and company is too.
Wordpress: Gee Thanks! You did say you were calling from Microsoft right?
Interesting news – microsoft is [...]

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Just a quick not to linux server folks out there – this looks like something to make sure you’ve covered because it looks like it affects a whole lot of the web.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2010/09/21/linux-kernel-exploit-roots-64-bit-machines-40090177/?s_cid=116&tag=mantle_skin;content
Lucky for use we have ksplice so we’re already patched. Hopefully you do too!

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Just wanted to post this because I was pleasantly surprised last week to hear the news that Apple is revising their guidelines for app approval to allow for the use of 3rd party apps (cheers from developers who use Flash and Unity3d etc). I guess we still have to wait and see how it pans [...]

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When it has a leading zero in actionscript 2 of course.
trace(Number(“075″));
// ActionScript 3.0 75
// ActionScript 2.0 61
try it for yourself!
and then add this code somewhere to strip off those zeros
var movieLenStr:String = ‘0075′;
trace(movieLenStr + ‘ does NOT equal ‘ + Number(movieLenStr));
while(movieLenStr.charAt(0) == ‘0′) {
movieLenStr = movieLenStr.substr(1);
}
trace(movieLenStr + ‘ does equal [...]

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Testing something out with Gigya but stupid wywisyg isn’t letting me…

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa stuff

var pconf={
widgetTitle: ‘Test Widget’,
useFacebookMystuff: ‘false’,
defaultContent: ”,
UIConfig: ”
};
Wildfire.initPost(‘1414101′, ‘divWildfirePost’, 200, 180, pconf);

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