Six Digital Media Awards

So the prestigious Digital Media Awards were held last night, six entries, six first place wins. Very pleased. I developed the more complex ActionScript for all the eDetails and the Virtual Clinic project used my ActionScript framework for the Flash side. Obviously I didn’t do all the work myself, all the content and design work […]

ActionScript 3 – Error #3013: File or directory is in use.

Hit a snag with an Air project I’m working on tonight. Got right to the end of the last set of requested changes and then started getting the error: Error #3013: File or directory is in use. It occurs with both new files and old files I’m replacing. Took me a while to suss it […]

The Ever Elusive Insurance Claim

So a full eight and a half months after my house was burgled I finally got the call saying my insurance claim had gone through. You always hear stories about how the insurance companies try to screw you over but in my case they were the champions. My insurance company don’t actually handle the claim, […]

Plesk and the naughty Apache user

I use Plesk for one of my servers and have had this problem for a while now were certain files and directories could not be removed via the Plesk File Manager or FTP, permission denied. These files were created by Joomla when I installed a module through one of it’s admin pages. The problem with […]

Flash CS4 and the missing Vector3D class

I’ve been using the new 3D functionality in Flash Player 10 and got this error earlier today: Quote boggling since the docs say it’s a global class as long as you have the publish settings player version set to 10. Took me a while to work it out. If this happens to you then add […]

I am the Emperors Wrath, my word is law and you will obey unto death.

— Sith Warrior, Star Wars: The Old Republic