Stephen Belanger - Latest Comments

Re: The Infinite Genies Paradox

Chris — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 08:55:40 -0000

Why not just ask for magic journal that, when written in, will make whatever is written reality.
Or just wish that you could wish for more wishes. The second one is not asking for more wishes, but it is asking to change the rules of which the genie has to obey.
I myself am not knowledgeable of all their rules, but this may be a loop hole.

Re: High-flexibility game engine architecture

Matthew Bentley — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 19:47:15 -0000

Interesting. I see you're working on a similar SFML-esque/Angel interactivity to what I am.

Re: The Infinite Genies Paradox

Turbosloth — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:37:24 -0000

U simply ask for a genie who grants intimate amounts of wishes the free the old one

Re: The Infinite Genies Paradox

Raj Kiran Dhaliwal — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 20:16:01 -0000

The ability to control everything in the universe!

Re: How To: Install Current FFmpeg and FFmpeg-PHP in CentOS/RHEL with x264, Xvid, MP3, AAC and more!

Сергій Ласкавий — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:15:21 -0000

You can install modern ffmpeg using "yum install" with atrpms.

Re: jquery.flash – Who needs swfobject when you have this?

Stephen Belanger — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:29:56 -0000

Those aren't exposed anymore, but feel free to pull them out. It's basically just the stuff in the flash() function before the jquery().each() call. The 'has' variable is the new hasflash and the 'cv' variable is the new flashversion.

Re: jquery.flash – Who needs swfobject when you have this?

guest — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 02:00:24 -0000

Hi, I'd like to use the script to detect flash support and the flash version installed. How would you use hasflash and flashversion?

Thanks!

Re: How to make Socket.IO work behind nginx (mostly)

Stephen Belanger — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:35:10 -0000

Socket.IO tries to piggyback port 80, since most other ports are blocked in corporate networks. That having been said; the port serving the xml access control file for the flash port is often blocked, and sometimes block by specific headers like Connection: keep-alive.

Re: How to make Socket.IO work behind nginx (mostly)

Destitude — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 09:55:36 -0000

How would you test for socket.io/websocket issues if it works for you but other users from other parts of the country says it doesn't work even when they use the exact same OS and browser? I heard there could be lots of issues with routers or even ISPs causing problems with websockets but have no idea how to test/fix this.

Re: How to make Socket.IO work behind nginx (mostly)

Bob Axford — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:59:16 -0000

thank you! you just saved me heaps of time :)

Re: jquery.flash v1.3.1 – Squashing IE-related bugs.

Matthew Clemmons — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:33:42 -0000

@Justin, great find right there. If anyone is having layering issues with jquery.flash in Chrome, this is the solution. As Justin points out, add "type" to "availparams" and set the "type" in your jQuery call.

Re: jquery.flash – Who needs swfobject when you have this?

Gmd_fayyaz — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:47:43 -0000

if flash player is not installed in the pc then jquery slider run if flashplayer is installed then flash file run

can somebody tell me this one solution i need this guidelines

Re: How to make Socket.IO work behind nginx (mostly)

Автоматическая Подтверждения — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:25:02 -0000

Thanks!

Re: How to make Socket.IO work behind nginx (mostly)

Stephen Belanger — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:56:08 -0000

Your very welcome. :)

I wish it had been there to save mine back when I made the fix. Lots of pulling out of hair occurred.

Re: How to make Socket.IO work behind nginx (mostly)

Maurits Lamers — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 11:46:10 -0000

Thanks, this fix saved my weekend (and possibly much more)

Re: jquery.flash v1.3.1 – Squashing IE-related bugs.

Justin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:11:45 -0000

Seemed to be having problems with transparent wmode in Chrome. I added "type" attribute with value set to "application/x-shockwave-flash" to non-ie output and all worked fine.

Re: You are not lean, stop pretending.

Stephen Belanger — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:56:22 -0000

It's the curse of over-funded startups. Their impatience leads them to throw manpower at every "problem" they encounter, even if it's just a minor delay. They don't seem to get that, just like the system they are building; the more points of required communication between entities, the greater the latency will be per request.

Adding a new person to a project slows everyone else down almost as much cumulatively as that person adds value.

Re: A simple explanation of “new” in Javascript.

Jon — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:36:53 -0000

See this:
http://stackoverflow.com/qu...

Re: You are not lean, stop pretending.

Jon — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:32:23 -0000

Heck of a post...I agree 100%. I've seen large branded companies with 100s of developers and designers with horrible products. It doesn't matter how much money or resources you have. If you don't get it right with 1 person how are you ever going to get it right with 100s.

Re: How to make Socket.IO work behind nginx (mostly)

Stephen Belanger — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:52:25 -0000

It goes wherever your Socket.IO code is defined. I like to put it right after io.attach().

Re: How to make Socket.IO work behind nginx (mostly)

hosam.ebrahim — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:12:22 -0000

Can anyone please tell me exactly the file name I should update it, I don't know where to override this function?

Re: The Infinite Genies Paradox

picko — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:50:40 -0000

The disney's genie is a little different from some of the other genies. Unlike the genie from aladdin, most genies seem to be tricky. From what I remember when you wish a genie free, in exchange of that genie you are trapped and become a genie to take his/her place.(Or if the genie said a genie can only grant you three wishes would mean that it didn't matter which genie you asked the wish for. Kind of like an ATM machine where it doesn't matter which ATM you go to, you would still have the same amount of money) Also wishes can be interpreted differently, like I wish I had trillion dollars and the genie would give you trillion dollars worth of coin which crushes on top of you. As for the wishing the third wish to not be granted. The genie could simply vanish your existence from the beginning. By doing so, your wish would come true because you would have never wished for the wish and so there is no wish to come true. At the same time your wish didn't come true because although you never wished it the wish was granted. So it's kind of answering a paradox with a paradox. haha

Re: How to make Socket.IO work behind nginx (mostly)

Stephen Belanger — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:00:58 -0000

Most of the "auto-scaling" cloud host type services can't give unique IPs though. Typically they are just a thin layer on top of AWS.

Re: How to make Socket.IO work behind nginx (mostly)

Sri — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:58:42 -0000

Umm .. it should work for vhosts if they have a dedicate IP. The problem was the clash of ports if both the tcp {} and http {} blocks were declared for all IPs.

Re: How to make Socket.IO work behind nginx (mostly)

Stephen Belanger — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:57:04 -0000

Yep, I've seen that fix too. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for vhosts. So cloud hosting services like dotcloud can't use that.