PROBLEM  Today I ran into a rather perplexing bug in Flash when I tried to create/write to a shared object. I needed to create an array named after an ID and then store 3 values into that array. The idea is that each ID would have its own array with its own 3 values. Since the name of the array would depend on which ID we were dealing with, I resorted to using the set variable command in order to use a variable as the name of the array...

As a web developer, I am constantly reloading pages that are still in the development stage to see how my code is affecting the outcome (Dreamweaver can only preview so well in the design window, thank goodness for F12). Since I want to be absolutely sure that what I’m seeing is the most current version, I always turn my “Temporary Internet Files” and my “Cache” off. This becomes especially important as I...

Today I wrote a batch file to back up my Firefox settings. Yesterday, I lost all of my Firefox settings because, like an idiot, I was messing with the application data files without backing them up first. So after re-installing all of my favorite extensions and theme, I decided it was something I never wanted to have happen again. I researched to death a way to transfer this stuff from my laptop (WIN XP) to where the data was lost (WIN...