Posts from: October 2007

26 Oct 2007

Portal

Check out the trailer to Portal. It’s a first-person puzzler where your only ability is to create circular space/time portals between two locations. Your movement (and gravity!) does the rest. The trailer is also pretty funny. This would’ve made Berzerk so much easier.

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9 Oct 2007

LoadVars implements HTTP caching

Searching for info about Flash’s caching mechanism turned up endless posts on how to prevent caching, but none mentioned how LoadVars.load() handled server-sent Cache-Control headers. So I tested this myself. In the SWF, I loaded the same URL once every 5 seconds using setInterval() and LoadVars. The URL ran a PHP script that sent content

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