A few months ago, I wrote an article called Best Practices to Keep your Inbox, Voicemail and Mailbox Free of Solicitation to help [don]line readers rid their mailboxes and email boxes of spam. This week, I received another confirmation that those practices work well and wanted to share it with you.
Flash File Uploader v3.1 – File Name Rewrite
A number of posters on Donline have left comments requesting that the Flash File Uploader automatically replace file names with single and double quotes to alleviate the problems that derived from the uploader’s javascript functions (props, complete, etc.). The changes include file slash-stripping in the FLA (new function on lines 63-71 and calls on 93 and 114) and updates to the index.php and upload.php’s printing of file names, confirmation/error divs, and read-out of the GET string provided by the Flash.
As a result, some minor modifications to the Flash FLA, index.php and upload.php were made. I haven’t had time to thoroughly test this, but feel pretty good about it being solid. Regardless, I’m requiring all users of the scripts to still read and accept my disclaimer before proceeding.
Comments and feedback always welcome. Thanks again, Mike, for the assistance.
Flash File Uploader v3.1 (RAR)
Complete FLA, PHP and file structure source files with options for Custom Directories and File Name Rewrite.
Complete FLA, PHP and file structure source files with options for Custom Directories and File Name Rewrite.
Why logo design does not cost $5.00
Great article by Aussi Designer Jacob Cass about identity design budgeting and understanding of fees. Here’s a little taste:
Logo design in today’s world is totally under rated. People do not understand how important a good logo is and how valuable it is to their business and this is why I am going to outline some very important facts telling you exactly why logo design should not cost $5 and why your logo is not something you should take lightly. In broad terms, I will do this by comparing “cheap logo design” to “professional logo design” and I will outline the reasons why professional logo designers do not charge such low fees and why you should invest in a professional logo design.
(Thanks to Ryan Seslow for sending me this link.)
La Vienna Boheme
Mike and I finally got around to putting our pictures together from our trip to Vienna, Budapest and Prague (Bohemia). The trip was for our 30th birthdays and, sadly, I guess I’m not as sprightly as I was in my salad days. Sorry this is so after-the-fact, I know a bunch of you were interested in seeing them. Have a gander and let me know what you think! (Links to previous trips are on the bottom of the page).
TripAdvisor Travel Map
The TripAdvisor “Cities I’ve Visited” Application for Facebook is a pretty interesting widget to share your travel experience with friends on the popular social networking site. It’s free and takes only a moment to set-up. After you’re done, you can notify friends of recommendations, see which friends have traveled to the same places, post yourself as a trip advisor for specific destinations, note that you will be traveling to a certain area and request recommendations from friends and strangers that have traveled there previously.
Natalie just got hotter
I’m sure everyone has seen this already, but that’s not going to stop me from reposting it.
For any fans of Natalie Portman, including her exquisite role as the flirtatious brainiac, Marty, in Beautiful Girls (1996), you’ll enjoy this profane, but hilarious SNL skit (presumably written by Andy Samberg—the genius behind Lazy Sunday).
Vincent Hui
Take a look at the paintings and sketchbook of Vincent Hui over at hardsponge.com. Some amazingly impressive work.
