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Six reasons to use ActionScript 3.0

Posted by Mark - 19/08/08 at 10:08:20 am

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/articles/six_reasons_as3.html

Creating Outlook Calendar events through hyperlinks

Posted by James - 07/08/08 at 11:08:02 pm

You mightn’t think it was possible, the lack of implimentations you see for it on a day-to-day basis, but actually you can create Calendar events for a wide range of email / organiser clients using the iCalendar file format.

From the users’ point of view, your Calendar event appears as every other hyperlink does in your html pages – but when they click on the link, instead of being taken to a new page, Outlook opens up an ‘add event’ just as if they’d clicked on a meeting request (in Outlook).

From the developers’ point of view, once you have your server configured correctly, it’s just a case of creating and linking to an .ics file instead of a .htm file – at which point the client’s email software should take over.

Does it work for me?

I don’t know – try clicking on this link.  If MIME types are incorrectly set you’ll probably see a plain text file, and if you don’t have an application setup that’s compatable with iCalendar events, you’ll probably just be asked to save the file to your hard drive.

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BBC Sports’ AIR Application removes its offensive language

Posted by James - 05/08/08 at 04:08:07 pm

Well, that was fast (and rightly so).  This morning I posted about the BBC Sports’ Olympics AIR Application containing a text file of offensive language but now, roughly 1.5 hours after posting here, and 6.5 hours after it being initally posted, a new update has appeared for the Olympics AIR Application.

The release notes mention that it’s updating the listing events schedule (which it may well be) but it’s also changing the contents of the bbc-swear.txt file to say ‘deprecated functionality‘. (Instead of 1399 ways to swear.)

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BBC uses Adobe AIR to install a list of swear words to users machines.

Posted by James - 05/08/08 at 10:08:35 am

James Cannings from MMT Digital alerted me to this, and has written a post about it at: http://www.mmtdigital.co.uk/monkeymagic, and here’s my thoughts on it:

You can install the BBC Sport’s Desktop Monkey at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/monkey/7479984.stm

If you do however, you’ll be unwittingly installing a rather comprehensive list of offensive words as a plain text file to your hard drive. Once it’s installed, go to your application directory (Program Files) and BBC Olympics > assets > data > bbc-swear.txt
and you’ll be privvy to a 15kb, 1399 lines long list of bad words.

This is such an ridiculous error that I’m practically lost for words. For an audience as big as the BBC’s you think they’d be mindful about offending people – every other part of the development must have undergone a review process – but bundling a highly offensive text file with your application?

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