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Archive for February, 2005

Mixing MM components and Bit components

I’m running into issues mixing the Bit component set and MM’s built-in components. The trouble I’m having is that I need a datagrid, which is not included in the bit component set, so I have to use MM’s version. Now the Macromedia datagrid includes MM’s scrollbar and text input components, so the original Bit components […]

Firefox IDN exploit

( Misc. )

By now you’ve probably heard of the Firefox IDN exploit that allows anyone to spoof a domain if they register homologues domain names in another language. While the network.enableIDN setting set to false in about:config was suggested as a workaround for the problem, it did not work for me at all. I believe this […]

AMFPHP: 50% speedup in large recordsets

( Remoting and PHP )

I was working with a large (400 items, 4 columns) recordset today and noticed that AMFPHP wasn’t all that fast for this kind of setup. I thought it might have been a consequence of my recent commit of charset handling functions but it turned out otherwise. It was spending over 90% of its time in […]