Archive for the ‘Development 101’ Category

Velocity: The Ultimate Web Performance and Operations Conference

 

Last month, I attended O’Reilly’s Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference and, without fail, the information I came away with reinforced existing VMIX initiatives and strategies, and inspired new ones.
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Apache Mod_Deflate and Flash SWF Files Don’t Like Each Other

Recently I was working on a Flex project and upon completion and successful QA, I deployed it on a clients server for use. After embedding the SWF file and adding the data.xml that populated the flash application, I could not load the application in Firefox or IE. Several refreshes would load the application occasionally, however most of the time I just had a grey box. [...]

How to use the PERL Blowfish Encryption Module with Padding Capabilities

If you have a scenerio when encryption is necessary for your data, a perl script utilizing the Crypt::Blowfish module to get the job done may be your answer. The code is pretty straight foward however it has an additional padding section which helps you negotiate data not matching your designated encryption key size.
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