June 2007
3 posts
allowDomain() troubles … again
This time it’s a little different then the last time (with the subdomains). In the Floorplanner all the furniture elements are seperate swf’s which are loaded one by one. To minimize our data traffic we wanted to move all the furniture swf’s to Amazon’s S3 service and load them from there.
To get all the swf’s to S3 we used the Amazon S3 Firefox Organizer which is a...
Rails and Foreign languages
A few weeks ago, Gert-Jan asked me to post a item about languages, Rails and encoding types, since we had some trouble seeing Chinese characters as question marks in the production environment and not in the development environment. So here it is, after about four weeks of seeing this to-do item on my list ;-)
Languages such as Chinese, French, German and Swedish all use different symbols that...
Flash rotation
Last week we’ve been working on an importer for the Floorplanner. It allows us to generate a floor plan based on a xml file from one of our clients. This way they can keep drawing the plans with their own software and export them to the internet with the click of a button.
While working on the importer we came across an issue with the rotation in Flash. After generating a floor plan, the...
