Miscellaneous

/ Don

Flash File Uploader v3.0 – Custom Upload Directories

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A number of posters on Donline have left comments requesting that the Flash File Uploader allow for users to specify a specific directory for the uploaded files. In the past, the uploader hardcoded the directory for uploads to be “/files/”, with thumbnails automatically going into a newly-created child folder called “/.s/” (the auto-thumbnailing option was added in Version 2).

Some minor modifications to the Flash FLA, index.php and upload.php were made to enable users to specify their own directories for file uploads. Naturally, this opens up a security breach as wily coders can point to unspecified directories outside the current folder, if those directories are writeable. Hopefully, this won’t become an issue for you, but I’m requiring all users of the scripts to still read and accept my disclaimer before proceeding.

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Jetlagged and Backlogged

don0017.jpgI returned this week from traveling in Europe and have spent the last few days taking vacation after my vacation. I hope to put the pictures and videos online soon to share with everyone. Thanks to everyone that wrote me while I was away, wishing me a happy birthday and giving me suggestions on things to see/do while I was in Austria, Hungary and Czech Republic. It was the trip of a lifetime and I appreciate everyone’s correspondence before and during my vacation/birthday. You guys rock!

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Budweiser Swear Jar

X-man had this posted to his Facebook profile and it literally made coffee come out of my nose. In the recent success of daring videos to promote products (including rave reviews on AdRants and Gawker for our own viral video for Charles Bock’s Beautiful Children) , I think Bud hit the nail on the f&#$ing head with this one…

Gawker Article: Unlike the Good Old Days, when the only thing you had to fear from an advertisement was a scary photo of a possessed-looking child, marketers in this modern era have given into the temptation to cuss motherfuckers out. The New York Times uses a surprising amount of non-cuss words to get to the bottom of the trend that is advertisers who purposely put bleeped-out words into their ads. Sometimes they’re real cuss words; other times, they’re mundane things like product names, bleeped out in an attempt to be clever. Fuck that. After the jump, the true balls-to-the-wall prototype of ads that bleep real cuss words: “Swear Jar,” a famous viral Budweiser commercial in which I honestly think the guy in the meeting room says “We’re gonna fuck some ass!” and “We’re gonna suck some big cock!” Still, don’t drink Budweiser.

Bud Video Links
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Two Riddles

Riddle #1:
What does man love more than life,
fear more than death or mortal strife,
what the poor have- the rich require,
and what contended men desire,
What misers spend, and spendthrifts save,
and all men carry to their grave?

Riddle #2:
The part of the bird
that is not in the sky,
which can swim in the ocean
and always stay dry.

Know the answers? Post a comment.

/ Don

Design Coding

I can’t really criticize this guy, because he’s absolutely right on almost everything he says. Actually, strangely, a great resource for people that have a hard time remembering encoding rules.