Archive for July, 2009
Flash! (Ah-ah!) ActionScript 3 varDump function
So, recently I’ve been doing a fair amount of work with ActionScript 3 in Flash, and its complete lack of a useful variable dumping function has really started to get on my nerves. So, after a lot of toing-and-froing, I eventually found some examples which partially did what I wanted them to do.
Most of the [...]
Tickyboom thing
I just found the most bizarre code comment ever in one of the files on the site I’m currently working on.
/*Not sure what this does but if you comment it out the little tickyboom thing stops ticking and goes boom.*/
I honestly have absolutely no idea what that’s supposed to mean, or what it’s referring to. [...]
Sacrilege
<C> I was once at Charles de Gaulle airport when they decided to blow up someone’s bag.
<C> (back in the day)
<C> And they did it in the concourse.
<C> But as it went off, there was a great bang-twangy noice.
<C> Turned out it wasn’t a bomb, but a Stradivarius violin.
I hope they died in a big [...]
Insecurity features
I’m surprised I haven’t written about this before, actually, since it’s something that really bugs me and I see it happening more and more.
The amount of sites out there which insist on checking that passwords match /^[a-zA-Z0-9]$/ and exclude all other characters astounds me. There’s no better way to make passwords easily crackable than limiting [...]