Sorry, i found this endlessly hilarious:
Apparently they DDoS'd the Article too...
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Pirate Bay DDoS?
May 11th, 2009
Granite SecureAMFChannel - AMF over HTTPS
March 15th, 2009At work we’ve started to use JBoss, writing an application in Java and AS 3.0. We’re using Seam and Tide to sandwich it all together, and we came upon a slight problem. Everything worked out great in the test environment, but when we went live, on an HTTPS connection, firebug was reporting that the AMF request out of flex was failing. That’s due to the services-config.xml in the application pointing to a non-secure connection. After much digging, we found this to be the solution.
WEB-INF/flex/services-config.xml
in the channels definition at the top:
<channels> <!--USED IN THE LIVE ENVIRONMENT--> <!--channel ref="my-graniteamf-secure"/--> <!--USED IN THE LOCAL/DEV ENVIRONMENT--> <channel ref="my-graniteamf"/> </channels>
Then in the channel definition below we have both definitions:
<channel-definition id="my-graniteamf" class="mx.messaging.channels.AMFChannel"> <endpoint uri="http://{server.name}:{server.port}/{context.root}/graniteamf/amf" class="flex.messaging.endpoints.AMFEndpoint" /> </channel-definition> <channel-definition id="my-graniteamf-secure" class="mx.messaging.channels.SecureAMFChannel"> <endpoint uri="https://{server.name}:443/{context.root}/graniteamf/amf" class="flex.messaging.endpoints.SecureAMFEndpoint" /> </channel-definition>
Click Here to Download: services-config.xml
We couldn’t get {server.port} to work correctly, so we’re forcing the port in the address for now.
The only problem with this is you have to remember to switch the AMF channel before deploying. It’s on our checklist before doing the full deploy, but we’re most likely going to add it to the ant task list to deploy dev, deploy live. Something like that.
The KEY THING TO REMEMBER is this: although this file is deployed with the war/ear, it is ALSO COMPILED INTO THE APPLICATION SWF when it is built. Make sure to change it locally and rebuild your swf before posting, or you will see no change in your app. (found this out after a significant amount of time changing the file on the server to no avail…)
(Ref: http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion@affug.com/msg00605.html)
Still Alive… Car? Not so much.
December 29th, 2008
It's just a little smashy, it's still good, it's still good!
This weekend, coming home from my parents for Christmas, I was involved in a little smash-up. Roads were a little wet, traffic was tight and rather slow moving, and I was travelling down a slight decline just north-east of the Palisades Mall in New York on 287. Abruptly (as most accidents seem to happen) everyone decided it’d be fun to stop as fast as possible. I slammed on my brakes and slid my Nissan Altima into a Mazda 626. Apparently I wasn’t the only one surprised, however, as there were 3 other identical accidents around me.
Mmmmm... Crash-tastic!
Shaken, but still in one piece, the other driver and I pulled to the side, as did the other unfortunate people. We got out, made sure everyone was ok, and assessed the damage. Her car may have added a scratch to it’s already impressive collection, but mine was a little worse for wear. As it was my fault, she said it’s up to me if we want to get the insurance companies involved, but right as that question arose, a very friendly police officer rode up and asked for our paperwork. He was probably sent to the scene because one of the other accident groups were screaming all irate-like and most likely reported all the accidents in the vicinity to 911.
This was the nicest, most helpful police officer I’ve ever seen in one of these situations. He made sure we were ok, asked for our paperwork, and in about 5 min, presented us with a printout detailing each others information and sent us on our way. I expected an impatient, slightly-condescending cop to hand me a ticket for some reason, but not this time. This made the experience a little less aggravating.
So, hats off to the Tarrytown Police K9 unit!
Anyway, being in situations like this really makes you think… After driving for almost 10 years or so without an accident (just a slight fender bender about a year after I got my license) it really makes you second-guess those “well, I’ll just send them a text message while I’m going 80mph” or “sure, I can eat this taco while driving..” I was concentrating on driving because of the traffic and the road conditions and I got into an accident that may actually end with my car being totaled (it’s not really worth fixing a ‘99 Altima if there’s anything other than cosmetic damage).
Also, so far, I’m happy with Geico. They’ve been very helpful and I’m only responsible for my deductable (as expected). But I’ll be sure to post if anything of note happens.