I just came across a post on John Dowdells blog RE a news item which has gone up too early on the Computerworld site. The subject: ‘Macromedia Director MX 2004’. It certainly makes an interesting read. Having used previous versions of Director earlier during my career I’ve always been of the opinion that Macromedia needed to do something pretty revolutionary with the software in order that it should keep one step ahead of the ever maturing Flash format.
Turns out that this release they’ve added support for a new programming language in addition to the nastyness that is Lingo, Director now provides support for JavaScript! Blimey! Now if they add support for Actionscript and such niceness as nested Movie Clips then some developers might return.
Today I am mostly feeling ‘urgh’, so is Jo my wife, in fact she’s feeling particuarly ‘urgh’ because she also has the job of carrying our as yet unborn child. Not an easy job when the little tyke is already practicing his/her dance moves every half hour.
‘Urgh’ is a combination of things, runny nose, soar throat, chesty cough, fuzzy head… It’s not a nice thing to have when everywhere around you people are joyous and festive. Hopefully soon the large volumes of Vitamin C will defeat the ‘urgh’ and I can return to normality, a place where I can breath through my nostrils and sleep soundly at night.
We had a bit of a baby related scare this morning. So after a quick call to NHS Direct we rushed over to the Maternity unit at Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot.
The staff there were fantastic and quickly determined that baby was ok. They decided that to be on the safe side they would do another scan, and we were delighted to discover that it’s a girl!
There are also signs that the ‘Echogenic Bowel‘ which was detected at our 20 week scan is no longer there, good stuff. :)
There is something weird going on with PHP includes on a site which I’m working on. I’ve been trying to include a file which will change depending on where you are in the site, therefore the URL of the include is created by combining a number of variables and an existing string.
$page_audience = "5-9s";
$baseURL = "/mysite/";
include($baseURL."/Includes/inc_footer_".$page_audience.".php");
However, this simply does not work, it throws PHP errors all over the place. In the end I resorted to changing the ‘baseURL’ variable to an absolute file address.
$baseURL = "d:/Inetpub/wwwroot/mysite/";
Surely this isn’t necessary? Sure it works, but it’s a tad ugly. Do I simply have something wrong with my PHP installation on Windows, or am I missing something else?
Drew and I have been having some fun with session variables on PHP for Windows. Intermitent success would be a good description of the situation. Check out Drews post on the subject…
