Eriq’s Blag

Jar Player wasn’t working and I couldn’t figure out why not. Of course it would be something simple…it turns out that in flash, to use an absolute URL (i.e. http://www.jar42.com/videos/videos.php) you have to have the “www.”. I was unaware of this; I had : “http://jar42.com/videos/videos.php”, note no “www.”. This small error completely fucked up my video player, meaning it wasn’t possible to view the media menu. Now it is. I slapped myself when I realized this.

I just posted the first version of my home made flash video player (meaning it plays videos from within flash player). I made everything, with a little help from Flash Help to get the video streaming working. It currently only plays one movie, the intro to one of the best video games ever: Half-Life 2. I will add more videos and more fuctionality as I go. Please tak a look.

At the beginning of summer my friend, Reggie owner of the toystore/software store/video game store, asked if I would be willing to make his web site dynamic (meaning it loads information from text files or a database, like this site). I said yes, he got me a book onj PHP and I set to work. After finishing the book, the first thing I did was make my own site, it being the weekend. The following Monday I started working on his site, mostly remaking pages he already had. Today he finally gave me the go-ahead to upload my version of his site to the root folder. It’s nothing fancy, but the current JRTechie.com is the site I made. I think I’ll add a page that has a portfolio of my work.