Flash on the iPhone indicated by Adobe

Yesterday Adobe announced they have evaluated the recently released Apple iPhone SDK and have indicated they will be developing a flash player for the iPhone on it. That is great news from a interactive application and games standpoint.

I would speculate that it may even provide for developers to bypass the iPhone SDK where it might of been used previously and just develop apps in Flash that need rich experiences - saving learning curve time and allowing for increased re-usability. It will also allow the web design audience a avenue to deploy interactive elements to the iPhone without needing to know how to development in C or a similar language.

Nothing but goodness with this news. Hooray for cooperation between the big tech players..

[Edit 3/23/08: UPDATE - So Adobe is back-peddling some on this claim now saying they will need Apple's cooperation. Well we can still hope.. Source: http://macworld.co.uk/ipod-itunes/news/index.cfm?newsid=20775]

-David
In now sunny Austin, Texas!

Source: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/adobe-forging-ahead-with-flash-for-the-iphone-despite-jobs-remarks/

Net-Recon provides web design, web development, flash games, and Internet marketing to customers nationwide.

HOWTO: Fix "Invalid Token" issue in Joomla

This morning i tried to log in into Admin's Section, and i get the following error:

"INVALID TOKEN"

This error is related to cookies. It happened when we changed our summer time (Net-Recon Argentina Team went back one hour) - at that time, my account was blocked.

First off, if you get this error, all you have to do is to delete your cookies (This will let you log in into your admin section).

Then you have to search for this line in your login form:


<input type="hidden" name="<?php echo JUtility::getToken(); ?>" value="1" />


And change it to:


<input type="hidden" name="<?php echo JHTML::_( 'form.token' ); ?>" value="1" />



This will fix the issue.


These kind of issues are very common if you use Joomla v1.0 templates in Joomla v1.5.


-Nico.
Net-Recon
Web Design and Flash Games - Based in Austin, TX

HOWTO: Joomla and Windows Live Writer

So we are switching one of our customer's sites to have a Joomla backend. The customer really wanted to be able to use a WYSIWYG / easy editor to publish articles and photos into Joomla.

Now I had read some articles that it was generally possible to get Windows Live Writer (a great blogging tool) to work with Joomla, but the instructions were sparse and did not fully explain the process and issues with doing it. So, once I figured it out I decided to document it for the community and for my current and future customers.

At this link is a PDF explaining how to make Windows Live Writer work with Joomla. Good luck!

-David
Web Design and Flash Games in Austin!

Link: Joomla and Windows Live Writer (pdf)