I've been working on a flash project for a UK charity for the last few days, and one of the more random issues that the flash files have thrown up is being unable to load Papervision 3D resource files.

If your flash applications have issues loading .dae files, or you are seeing "HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found" error messages then this blog entry is for you.

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I've been working with some client side flash developers recently and we came across an unusual error that was being thrown in a Flex application when we were sending a webservice request to a Coldfusion server.

The error was "Security error accessing URL". I thought I'd overcome this a long time ago by using the cross-domain.xml file to allow server access to services.

It appears that there is a security issue with Flash 9 that requires the following line to be added to the CrossDomain.xml file:

I'm guessing that it is enabling access for SOAP requests to any remote services on that server.

I've been putting together a personal site for a little while now, and one of the more common pieces of work I've had to do is creating the page headers from a custom font library in Photoshop. The site is 'comic' themed, and as such has an appropriate font (not comic sans!) .

Rather than having to create a new image for each page, I thought I'd cut up the alphabet, and create a function to turn a string into a set of graphics.

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