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An awesome email fresh from my inbox.

This email address was created solely to register automatically at thousands of forums for the purposes of spamming forums like yours. Remove my account and any other account registered with my email address!

You should also consider making the password requirements for your forum much more stringent.

Sincerely,

A Random Digilante Who Is Sick Of Forum Spammers From Russia

The sender is right, 22pixels has had an abnormal amount of Russian spam recently. Glad someone is doing something about it.

A new project I’m working on favors Flex over AJAX and other web technologies. So what is a PHP developer to do? Well, its time we take a step away from the comfort of PHP, and try something different. Luckily, my project manager got me started with  the krait snake book, Flex 3 by Oreilly, and there are tons of docs online. However, I’ve also found an article written for stingy PHP developers, in contrast to most Flex articles which are written for people familiar with Flash or previous versions of Flex.

This article introduces you to Flex through basic examples and comparisons with HTML and PHP that you are already familiar with. Each section includes a stand-alone, working example that you can review. I’ll begin with the basics like layout and then move on to more advanced topics such as form submission. The goal of this guide is to show you how easy it is to get started using Flex to build Rich Internet Applications.

The full article can be found here. Although the article won’t teach you to program Flex from scratch, it will definitely help an experienced web developer migrate over to a new platform.

My 360 fell off my dresser last night, went vertical, and then to the floor. Luckily the Xbox is fine, but as most people know by now, if you move your Xbox 360 while a disc is spinning in the tray, it leaves a nice round scratch around the disc, leaving it unreadable.

However! You may get lucky! In my case I was only left with a partial, shallow scratch. My game will load, but I can not read from the disc to say, load a multiplayer map.

I solved this by borrowing my friends game, and installing it to the hard drive. I then gave my friend back his game, popped my scratched cd in the tray, and fired up multiplayer. Everything has been working fine so far. Below is a more detailed guide on solving the problem.

1. Get another copy of the broken disc
2. Pop the good copy into your xbox hard drive
3. On the Xbox dashboard (where you would normally launch the game), Press Y
4. Select “Install To Hard Drive”
5. Wait for Xbox to finish copying the disc to the hard drive
6. Pop out the good disc
7. Put your scratched disc back in
8. Try and launch game
9. Celebrate
10. Give old disc back