If you are looking for a more comprehensive guide to redirecting your page. Or if you are anxious for code samples on redirecting your page, then please reference this article: How to redirect a web page, the smart way.

What is Web Page Redirection?

Well, obviously this is simple, and not very complicated; redirecting a web page just means that you get transfered to another web page when accessing the current page or attempting to. That is pretty clear.

What isn’t clear — is that there are really at least 2 major different forms of web page redirection; Client-side Redirection & Server-side Redirection

What is Server-side Redirection?

Basically, as a user visiting a web page — you can’t see anything that happens on the server-side.

This means that when a redirection occurs on the server-side, the only way you see it is that the original URL you were contacting suddenly changes to the new URL that the server-side is redirecting to. This is typically the best way to go about redirecting, because it is really the only “safe” way of communicating to a search engine “Hey, this page has been moved, here is the correct URL”

With that said, it is important to understand the different types of URL redirection. Ultimately, the redirection occurs when your browser or client is instructed of the redirection. My rule of thumb is to not ever redirect unless it is permanent. That doesn’t necessarily apply to everything, but it is a safe route.

The 301 redirect is really the only redirect I use, because it is intended to be a permanent redirect, and search engines recognize this.

What should I stay away from?

In short: Client-side Redirection. These methods of redirecting a web page range from using html meta tags, to javascript, and even using flash embedded on a page to redirect. All of these methods are notorious for getting you de-indexed from search engines, or at the very least, you’re page getting automatically penalized from search engines. Stay away from client-side redirection, unless it is user-initiated (like clicking on a link).

That pretty much sums it up. It is important to keep in mind that if you are trying to redirect your page, do some research to find out exactly which redirect is right for you.

My buddy sent me this screen shot and thought it was worth posting.

If you haven’t played this yet, I highly recommend it!

One of my friends sent me this article about this song called “Little Bit” by Lykke Li.

It took a second round of listening to it to form an opinion on it, and I have to say I really, really like this song. Great stuff.

Enjoy~

Digg This!

So ridiculous, in fact — That it has encouraged me to post about it.

So, according to Matthew Garrett, disabling your flash player will help you save lots of energy, so disable it! He complains that when he visits myspace, his machine gets overloaded.

Well, Matthew — 2 things:

1. Get a faster computer.
2. Stop going to myspace, that site sucks by itself, aside from Flash

I’ve been in several debates and discussions with people who just do not like flash for their own reason. In most cases, their argument is legitimate, and I just don’t share their opinion. In this case, it is just a double whammy — not only do I disagree, but his argument is completely ridiculous.

Sure, saving power = good idea. But to go so far as to bash a specific technology so insignificant compared to other power-hungry things, it just seems really bizarre & far fetched to me.

Ok, I’m done. I feel better now.

The goal was to replace the old portfolio display/home page that my employer, Biggs Gilmore previously had. We wanted to use papervision with the goal in mind to really step it up a notch. I knew just by choosing papervision as the route, we couldn’t go wrong.

We knew we wanted to go with some sort of a “photo wall”. After about a month of working on the weekends and after work, I came up with something fairly slick. The release of Papervision 2.0 could not have been better timed, I quickly ported my app over to GreatWhite and gained a significant performance increase.

And finally, see it for yourself:

Formally known as "SWFfix", SWFObject 2.0 beta 1 has just been released.

At first I was concerned that the confusion about the original SWFObject and this new SWFObject (formally SWFfix). But after all, it doesn’t really matter. What matters is that SWFObject 2.0 is now much better and on the road to standardization. Which is exactly what has been needed for embedding flash movies since day one. It’s nice that it is finally happening.

The project is open source and you can find it on Google Code.

I will be messing around with it in the weeks to come, I encourage the same from others!

I am and will continue to toy around with Flex/AIR and see where it leads. My primary responsibilities are all AS2, so I’m slightly at a disadvantage with time. But nonetheless I will be making it a point to keep with it.

Here are my notes during all the sessions:

(Keep in mind that I am not fantastic with taking notes, I typically will do "keyword writing" when I take note, and they were moving along kind of quick.)

• Features of Adobe Air:
  • File system access
  • Network Detection
  • Notifications
  • Applications Update
  • Drag and Drop
  • Local Database
• Sites to check out:
  • http://airapps.pbwiki.com/
  • http://www.adobe.com/go/air
  • http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/
  • http://onair.adobe.com/
  • http://onair.adobe.com/api/
• Required in all Flex/Air Apps:
  • Application files (.mxml)
  • Application Descriptor file (.xml)
• Why is he showing command line crap for the html air apps?
• Apps to checkout:
  • Aptana (www.aptana.com)

For the past 3 months I was under the assumption that my FlashTracer Firefox plugin just stopped working due to firefox updates.

I was right, and wrong. I guess? It just kind of disappeared and wouldn’t show up again under the “Tools” menu item in firefox. No matter how many times I reinstalled the plugin, it just did not return.

So today I got fed up and said “Ok, lets reinstall Firefox and see what happens”.

In short, reinstalling firefox fixed the issue, and now I have my FlashTracer back! Woohoo!

Keep in mind that XRay is much more useful for debugging. But this firefox plugin can also be very very handy!

Still kind of looking on flickr for some relevant pictures of how i remember things, will post when i find!

Nuff said.

I will be attending the Flashforward Boston conference next week, my first time to go, I’m excited!

I intend on being a sponge in the area of flash developer/design work flows & AS2-AS3 transitioning in particular.

Here’s my schedule:

Day One:

Day Two:

Day Three:

w00t!

In AS2, it is pretty much not even worth trying, But this beautiful flash 3D demo by John Grden demonstrates the potential for the future of 3D and Flash.

This certainly opens the door for several oncoming ideas, 2007 will be an interesting time for flash. can’t wait to see more!

Update: Check out this SWEET Bumpmapping demo made with papervision3d.

Everything looks great so far, no complaints. But I surely would appreciate a wide range of features that don’t exist in it yet. But thats alright.

I’m impressed on how much better the admin handles. Everything seems to run faster and more smooth, very cool!

I immediately checked my database, which was also wiped clean. I wasn’t too concerned at this point because I had backed up everything just a week ago.

I wont detail my suspicions on how this occurred, for security purposes. But I have fixed the security hole and have retrieved the last IP that was able to successfully view my web page, and it was not mine. It was probably some silly script kiddies. Doesn’t hurt me much.

Backups, for the win!

I have been planning to do this for roughly 2 years now. So I finally saved up and took the leap.

Here are the specs:

• Case: Silverstone TJ09
• Motherboard: Intel Bad Axe 2 (LOVE this!!)
• CPU: Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz 4M shared L2 Cache
• Hard Disks: 4 X 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache, result: I set 2 to a RAID1 configuration for a default backup of OS installation. 2 Additional drives set up standardly.

  Update: I actually ended up reconfiguring my RAID to a RAID10 configuration (2 stripe + 2 mirror). The results are outstanding.

• Total available disk space: 750GB 500GB
• Fans: CPU: VIGOR GAMING CLT-M2I 92mm, 2 top dial-controlled 120mm fans, 1 front intake 120mm fan, 1 rear exhaust 120mm fan.
• Video Card: ATI Radeon X1950XTX 512MB (not multi-gpu, I dont see how a performance increase would be possible!!)
• Sound Card: XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro (I know my motherboard is a better sound unit, not to mention it has 8.1 channel audio, I just wanted something separate from on-board)
• TV Tuner Card: ATI All-in-Wonder 650
• PSU: ThermalTake 700W

Those are really all that are worth mentioning, I am using my old dvdrw & floppy drives, nothing special about them.

Now, here is some pics of my rig! I should also mention; I just realized I am not great at taking photos! That or for the life of me I can not seem to fix the horrible common blur problem I am having with my camera. Anyway, enjoy!

I was forced to tend to this blog because the amount of comments on one of my post’s has become really large, well large enough to make the page take a while to load, so I added this very nifty WP plugin called Paged Comments. I highly suggest this, very very handy.

I have been messing around here and there with Flex/AS3 and FisixEngine. But not nearly as much as I would like. I had a brother that passed away in October, and so I haven’t been very social, and haven’t been posted enough!

I promise to start posting more!! Honest!!

This firefox entension uses the debug flash player to allow you to see your traces in a panel in firefox! This came way too late in my opinion, but I’m really happy its here!

Enjoy!

It is called RemoteTrace, and I dont really know why I didnt create it earlier. Right now, as you can see below in the demo, it is a very simple tool, and there is only one use for it right now: Seeing your traces in an external movie!

Here is a preview:

Download RemoteTrace 1.0

Simple use guide:

1. Place an instance of the RemoteTrace on the stage and give it an instance name of anything, rt_mc for example.
2. Then add the following code:
   PLAIN TEXT
   Actionscript:

   1. rt_mc.trace("Foo Bar", true);

   The second parameter (Boolean), determines whether you want your traces to be numbered, defaults to false.

3. Publish your movie!

I plan on integrating a simple AS 2.0 interpreter for an even further debugging. I have seen some around but most are pretty much out dated. So lets see how that goes.

Oh, and; I am anxious to know what you all might think about it! Let me know!

I have volunteered to help create some tutorials for the FisixEngine, Mr. Michaeli (Oz) has invited me to create a ragdoll tutorial for the engine, and I am really excited to get started once it becomes available to me.

I really do not see how any flash developer could not be super excited about this project, I know I am!

It is called Fisix Engine. There appears to be a few memory leaks in the fisix engine demo, however this appears to still be under development, I am certainly looking forward to seeing some more applications such as games, using this.

I have been trying for some time now to get my feet wet with Actionscript 3.0. It is an amazing language, but also a huge leap from AS 2.0.

Update: I just found this really cool ragdoll effect using the Fisix Engine, AWESOME!

I have also finally posted, after a month! Hopefully this new design will help me kick off more blogging incentive for me

Now, I did just update this, so I am sure that there are at least a few things that are broken or something, but I will be making fixes to them over the next few days. Please feel free to let me know what you think of it!