(Updated 6.18 — see the end of this post) Got an email this morning: a letter about Download Day. Don’t forget to join us for Firefox 3 Download Day! Download Day is almost here! Mark your calendar, write it on your hand, or stick on a little sticky note. Download Day starts on June 17, 2008. Pledge map hoho, the 17th of this month is FF3 Download Day. Chinese FF fans, remember to raid then~

http://www.9sky.com/music/album/46780 Listening previews are open here now! Totally enchanted at the moment. Also, there’s a video here, I’ll Be There

This wordless duet is performed to perfection by two teenagers, Jean-Baptiste Maunier and Clemence, who wring every last ounce of beauty from their young voices.

Just finished watching DreamWorks’ new film, Kung Fu Panda. The visuals are full of towering, magnificent mountains. The scene where the turtle sage reaches nirvana is so very Eastern! Halfway through I was filled with emotion — Chinese culture, inherited by Westerners, brought to life so vividly with modern comedic elements mixed in. The Chinese Taoist spirit runs through the whole thing; I really like the feel of that turtle sage, and I’m very happy with how the film positions him. Now this is what a grandmaster is supposed to be like — he already understands all things in the world, the universe lives in his heart, and he’s in tune with the fate of heaven and earth. Classic lines that really resonated with me:

Elva Hsiao’s latest 2008 album <3 Faces of Eve> drops on the 15th of this month, released simultaneously across all of Asia!

Yesterday a guy in the group ran into this: After I use Array.push(Object), why does the array end up holding only the contents of the last N item? For example: I want to push 1 Computer News official website—China’s computer enthusiast interactive portal, 2 virtual hosting, enterprise mail, server rental, 3 If you cannot access the website normally, please contact our company. But when I push the third one, the contents in the Array are: 3 If you cannot access the website normally, please contact our company, 3 If you cannot access the website normally, please contact our company, 3 If you cannot access the website normally, please contact our company. Solution: new an Object every time you push.

My view: prayer is a kind of thought energy, and it can prompt the natural environment around us to respond. The strength of that thought energy depends on the cultivation of the person praying. As Gao Yueming puts it, “In essence, worshipping the Buddha is not about asking the Buddha for things — it is about asking yourself to create the causes and conditions that bring about the karmic result.” Prayer is thought energy that issues a request for causes and conditions to ripen into results. Take the earthquake in May: during the three minutes of national silence, many people prayed in their hearts for the people in the disaster area. One person’s prayer thought energy may not be much, but the thought energy of 1.3 billion people praying together with good intent can transmit an energy to nature, and that energy can let crustal movement gradually return to stability.

Regarding earthquakes, the I Ching says: “When yin and yang are exhausted, the four seasons are complete; when the firm and the yielding are exhausted, the four seasons are complete. When yin and y...

The inaugural issue of Tiandihui’s magazine Tiandizhi is out! Click to download the inaugural issue of Tiandizhi (2M) The book has a technical depth all its own and shares a lot of programming tips...

OMG. I’m so out of touch with the times… The preview release of 《Adobe CS4 Master Collection》(Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection Pre-Release) [ISO] is already available for download on eMule....

In AS3, an addEventListener listener automatically passes an event object argument to the handler function, but it can’t pass any other arguments. If you want to pass arguments to an event handler, here’s a way to do it: see the code:var sayHello:String = “欢迎光临www.FlashJ.cn -Flash,Ria技术博客”; btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,function (e:MouseEvent){clickHandlerWithArg(e,sayHello)}); function clickHandlerWithArg(e:MouseEvent,arg:String):void { var out:String= e.target + “发出事件(有参数) :” + arg; trace(out); }

Quick Start Examples:Example 1. Reading XML var testXML:XML; var file:File = File.documentsDirectory.resolvePath(“Mousebomb/test.xml”); var fileStream:FileStream = new FileStream(); fileStream.open(file, FileMode.READ); testXML = XML(fileStream.readUTFBytes(fileStream.bytesAvailable)); fileStream.close(); The example uses the readUTFBytes() method to read the content and convert it into an XML object.

What is a File object? A File object is a pointer to a file or directory in the file system. For security reasons, it’s only available in AIR. What can a File object do? Get specific directories, including the user directory, the user documents directory, the directory from which the application was launched, and the application directory Copy files and directories Move files and directories Delete files and directories (or move them to the trash) List the files and directories in a given directory Create temporary files and folders Create directories Read file information Get file system information

On May 17, I ran into a frustrating situation with the Fanfou AIR client: “after AIR opens an XML file, it caches it, so it can’t refresh in time.” As I’d imagined it, I just needed to click a button to refresh the network data, but the data was cached — AIR preferred the local data and wouldn’t update in time. Very annoying. In the end I had to resort to “unorthodox measures” — To deal with this kind of failure to refresh due to caching, there’s a trick: add a parameter to the requested URL. For example, if you’re requesting a.xml?user=b, then every time you need to refresh, change it to request a.xml?user=b&r=1. Increment the value of r by 1 each time, and with this little hack you can get the data to refresh. Today I poked around the official site and found that URLRequest in AIR apps has two properties that can handle this (finally, something that stands up for us common folk～). They are:

AIR lets us build applications that work with the file system. Using the classes provided by the Adobe® AIR™ file system API, you can access the host’s file system — reading, managing, creating, and deleting directories and files, writing data to files, and more. I’ve broken working with the file system down into three parts of AIR file operations: AIR file basics (below) Using the File object to work with files and directories Using the FileStream object to read and write files Language reference for the relevant classes flash.filesystem.File flash.filesystem.FileStream flash.filesystem.FileMode