Monday, December 11, 2006

In IE, when trying to load a flash file on a page, the images get cut off after the first load using cross-domain resources.

 

My webpage is at: http://www.me.rentals.com

The flash file it references is on http://image.dev.rentals.com

 

I’ve provided a crossdomain.xml file in my root directory to allow the flash from a different sub-domain communication with the hosting domain. 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<cross-domain-policy>
<allow-access-from domain="*.rentals.com"/>
<allow-access-from domain="image.me.rentals.com"/>
</cross-domain-policy>

I then specified the “base” atrtribute to tell the flash file where to load its resources from.  If you don’t, it’ll try to load relative to the hosting page (not what I’d expect).

 

<param name="base" value="image.me.rentals.com/flash" />

 

When I load the page up for the first time, everything is fine.

When I refresh the page or return to the page and the resources are served from browser cache, the image cuts off.  I finally identified that the behavior only occurs when the sub-domains have more then one non-matching token.  In other words, www.me.rentals.com works fine with image.me.rentals.com.  They both match xxx.me.rentals.com.

 

Whether I specify wild cards or explicit urls has no curative effect.

 

In production, the respective urls will be www.rentals.com and image.rentals.com.  I’ve verified this to work correctly.  The bug only bites me in the dev environment.  What a royal PAIN in the arse…

Image is supposed to look like this:

Flash image is supposed to look like this:

 

but instead gets cut off after loading from browser cache

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12/11/2006 8:50:59 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]  |  Trackback
Saturday, December 02, 2006

BizZoo.Net is a new website focused around providing e-commerce websites for folks who have a passion for something specialized.  Right now its in stealth mode but it looks to be the next ebay. 

I'll update you when there's more information related to its development

12/2/2006 3:16:42 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]  |  Trackback

With the recent development of Rentals.com, I've learned a great deal about teams, capability and myself.  With a small team of fantastic people, a tremendous level of productivity was accomplished.  Next year, we plan to better that.  IT will be an immense challenge but I am excited for the opportunity.  Along with that opportunity came a promotion to Development Manager for Rentals.com and a new office space just across the parking lot from the old.  The move is to truly empower the small team to operate as one.  Up until now we've been trying very hard to work  within a medium company that behaves like a giant company.  I believe this is going to be a significant year for all involved, especially the competition. 

In the last few months, I have received more employment opportunities then ever before.  Six months ago, I would have accepted the offers I've recently declined.  I love nothing more then to build things and there's nothing better then feeling a sense of ownership and responsibily for an outcome you are proud of.  I helped build ApartmentGuide.com over the years, not to mention NewHomeGuide.com, AutoGuide.com and a previous incarnation of RealEstate.com.  Each of these had varying levels of success and I played various roles and contributed on different levels at different times.  I am ecstatic to be intimately connected with this next venture. 

I am looking for top notch developers in Atlanta.  We are based in Norcross.  We have a beautiful office building, updated workstations with dual lcd monitors, flexible schedules, casual dress and really, really sharp people.  We are going to be running a pure agile (scrum if you know it) development process to build an infant of a product to a $200,000,000 company in the next two years.  The parent company is stable and profitable, compensation top tier and work loads reasonable.  Sustainable pace, right?  Its all dot net 2.0 and we're finally going to start using SQL Server.  You'll have some opportunity to build your Oracle skills, however, if that floats your boat.

So, please shoot an email to rzarse -at- consumersource -dot- com if you are 1) a fantastic dot net developer 2) highly motivated and a great team player 3) Bored at your current gig and looking for a fun, exciting challenge

12/2/2006 3:14:25 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0]  |  Trackback

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