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I’m migrating my workstation to CentOS 5.  I’ve decided it’s time to retire my old Mozilla suite install and upgrade to the latest of Firefox and Thunderbird.

If you are using an IMAP account, Thunderbird has an annoying bug whereby it hangs when attempting to copy a sent message to the Sent, or Drafts folder on the server.

Click on the Read More link for the fix . . . 
After quite a bit of searching and trial and error → Continue reading “Thunderbird not able to save to Sent or Drafts folder with an IMAP account”

If you have ever noticed mysterious yellow form fields on websites, or in my case, had a client call and wonder why there are random yellow form fields on a site that you designed when you know you didn’t design it that way, this article should help.

It’s the Google Tool bar in IE, and there is an elegant fix for it that allows you to either disable completely the highlighted fields or customize them and display a special message → Continue reading “Mysterious Yellow Form Fields”

Most ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0 programmers type all variables in their code.

In CS3, to enable the type checking during compilation you must do the following:

1. Using a text editor open the following file in the Flash CS3 installation folder: /en/Configuration/ActionScript 3.0/EnabledWarnings.xml
2. Locate the following line: <warning id="1008" enabled="false" label="kWarning_NoTypeDecl">Missing type declaration.</warning>
3. Change enabled="false" to enabled="true"
4. Save the file

Attached is the updated configuration file→ Continue reading “Flash CS3: Enabling Type Annotation Warnings for Compile-Time Checking”

Jonathan "c0mrade" James, famous for hacking into Pentagon and NASA computers at age 15 gave an interview with PC magazine and was asked about the most preventable security holes that he has seen.  He said that un-patched software was at the top of the list, "and don’t use Internet Explorer".

IE is notorious for opening up computers for numerous browser based attacks.  Looks like c0mrade knows all about them.  IMHO, I’d say, use Firefox.

Another documentation tool for AS 2.0 and AS 3.0.→ Continue reading “ZenDoc: A Free Documentation Tool For ActionScript”

Here’s a good article on how to implement multiple inheritance in AS 3.0.  As the author also disclaims; this is about the technique not about the philosophy behind multiple inheritance itself.→ Continue reading “Multiple Inheritance in AS 3.0”

My buddy Yermo, sent me a link to his IP attorney’s website.  A good source of info about website and technology related contracts.→ Continue reading “Web Contract & Information Technology Contract Attorney”