Jeff Pfaff's Blog http://www.puterteks.com Ramblings of a Deluded Mind Sun, 04 May 2008 03:31:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Vegas http://www.puterteks.com/2008/05/03/vegas/ http://www.puterteks.com/2008/05/03/vegas/#comments Sun, 04 May 2008 03:17:16 +0000 jeff http://www.puterteks.com/?p=15 Can’t remember exactly how many times I’ve been to Vegas, but I love going there. This is the first time I’ve actually left the city to do some sightseeing. Went out to Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam. How bizarre is it to be standing in a parking lot 1500 miles from home and run in to someone you work with who just happened to be vacationing in the same place at the same time.

It’s always a lot of fun out there. If you’re going any time soon I recommend getting tickets to see Wayne Brady at the Venetian. Awesome show!

 
]]> http://www.puterteks.com/2008/05/03/vegas/feed/ XHTML standards compliant flash http://www.puterteks.com/2008/04/26/xhtml-standards-compliant-flash/ http://www.puterteks.com/2008/04/26/xhtml-standards-compliant-flash/#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:51:28 +0000 jeff http://www.puterteks.com/?p=14 Yes, there are a lot of other tutorials on the web that show you examples of how to embed flash on a web page, but ….. it’s a lot harder to find one that shows you how to do it and still maintain W3C standards compliance.
The easy way to put flash on a page is to use an <embed>tag, which works. It’s widely supported by modern browsers, but it is not a part of the HTML 4 or xHTML 1 specifications. If your desire is to code your html pages to W3C standards, then the <embed> tag is not an option.
Here’s an example that shows a standards compliant implementation of flash that works in IE, Firefox, and Opera:


<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"
width="111" height="39">
<param name="movie" value="/three_coral_button.swf?mp3file=/04 Over You NEW.SWF"/>
<param name="quality" value="high"/>
<param name="bgcolor" value="#fffffff"/>
<!--[if !IE]><-->
<object data="/three_coral_button.swf?mp3file=/04 Over You NEW.SWF"
width="111" height="39" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<param name="quality" value="high"/>
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"/>
<param name="pluginurl" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/>
Falling Forward
</object>
<!--><![endif]-->
</object>

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Falling Forward…have you ever heard of them? Probably not, but someday you will. They are a local band made up of a group of 16 year old kids who have a lot of great potential. They’re music falls in to the rock/pop/worship genres. What’s impressive though is that this stuff is all original music, and is very well done. These kids are very talented and are really going to go somewhere if they keep working as hard at it as they have over the past few years.

Personally, I enjoy the rock songs the most, but hey, that’s the type of music I enjoy so it’s only natural. Even so, the music is very well written and a good listen.

The band consists of bassist Chance Edwards, drummer Tyler Thomas (a new addition to the group who is replacing Gerald Meyer), lead vocalist Liz Tindall (my daughter) and lead guitarist Jake Nelson (Liz’s boyfriend).

  • Liz Tindall
  • Jake Nelson
  • Chance Edwards
  • Tyler Thomas

Not only do the kids play their own original music, but Jake handles all the sound mixing duties as well and is quite talented at it. He does a lot of mixing for other bands under the name Silent Studios

Take a listen to these tracks and let me know what you think. After that, head on over to their website (http://www.myspace.com/fallingforwardintoyou) and let them know too!

  • Over You
    Falling Forward
  • Stuck
    Falling Forward
  • You Are There
    Falling Forward
]]> http://www.puterteks.com/2008/04/21/falling-forward/feed/ Woodworking 101 http://www.puterteks.com/2008/04/21/woodworking-101/ http://www.puterteks.com/2008/04/21/woodworking-101/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:09:38 +0000 jeff http://www.puterteks.com/?p=12  Recently a discussion of furniture came up with some co-workers. I wouldn’t call all of these projects furniture, but a couple of them are. I don’t normally consider myself a ‘crafty’ person, but with enough determination and trial & error I can usually figure most things out. Here are some pics of various stuff I’ve made for the house.

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As for as the theraputic music that helped me through the day today, give it a listen.
Supersuckers

]]> http://www.puterteks.com/2008/04/20/music-therapy/feed/ xml decleration in php http://www.puterteks.com/2008/04/17/xmldecleration/ http://www.puterteks.com/2008/04/17/xmldecleration/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:55:40 +0000 jeff http://www.puterteks.com/?p=4 Sometimes you just get a brain deadlock on the simplist thing. A few weeks ago I was converting some pages on a site to xhtml 1.0 strict. As you probably know, this requires each page to start with the following xml declaration:

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

No problem right? Wrong. That decleration is similar to the start of a php decleration:

< ?php

Needless to say it creates an error when you try to load the page. That’s where things went nuts and I was drawing a blank. “This should be easy to do” I kept saying to myself. “What am I missing”. Geesh, how stupid did I feel when it finally hit me. Here’s all you need to do. Put the following php command on the first line of the document:

echo '< ?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n';

Just figured I’d post this in case someone else had a brain freeze as bad as the one I had.

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