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A little off topic… 2 colleagues of mine here at Suite75 (Jaap van der Meer and Gido Tervooren) play in a band called Trenchcoat. Last week they released a video clip they made with the help of Rogier Wieland and I think it’s really fantastic!

Setup

• SWF A is on server 1
• SWF B is on server 2
• SWF’s C…Z are also on server 2

I got multiple Sandbox security errors when I tried to load SWF B (the one from the different server) into SWF A. SWF B loads SWF’s C..Z and I thought that that caused the problem. Only I knew that SWF B already contained the line:

System.security.allowDomain( "*" );

so that couldn’t be it.

When SWF B has loaded it reads a couple of _root variables (normally set by Javascript) to setup its configuration. Because SWF A now loads SWF B instead of Javascript I set the _root vars in SWF A. After a while of debugging this seems to be the problem. SWF B is -by default- not allowed to access _root vars of SWF A. So I added the same line to SWF A et voila!

System.security.allowDomain( "*" );

Yesterday I finally finished reading Steve McConnell’s Code Complete – A practival handbook of software construction. I really loved reading it and I definitely learned a lot from it, but it takes a while to finish the 914 pages

If you are in the business of writing code, I recommend you to buy a copy of this book and start reading it right away!

Our Floorplanner is gaining momentum! Since the release last April more than 200.000 users have registered and every day more and more new users are signing up.

And consumers are not the only ones interested. A lot of companies have found their way to us with requests for custom work. Various internet portals, broadcasting firms and real estate agents are just a few of the interested parties. They all are looking for a custom version of the Floorplanner with things like custom furniture libraries, a different look & feel or advertising opportunities.

To keep up with the demand, and to create all the other stuff we can think of, we want to expand our development team. So if you are a Flash guru, a PHP or Ruby on Rails super star and you want to work at a highly innovative and creative internet startup in Rotterdam, the Netherlands drop me a line!