If you send headers to a domain that does not match the domain where the SWF is hosted, you need update your crossdomain.xml file to allow them to continue to work with Flash Player 9.0.124.0. While this is discussed in the ADC pre-announcement, it could use a bit more detail. Flash Player support wrote a great technote on details of how to set up <allow-http-request-headers-from>.

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb403185

One of the examples from the article is:

<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM “http://www.adobe.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd”>
<cross-domain-policy>

<!– This domain can accept a MyHeader header from a SWF file on www.example.com –>
<allow-http-request-headers-from domain=”www.example.com” headers=”MyHeader”/>

</cross-domain-policy>

Also, it is worth reiterating that the new header crossdomain syntax is required for both send and sendAndLoad network APIs. For network requests without additional headers, traditional crossdomain syntax and behavior continues.

Google Docs has rolled out some welcome new features for the company’s online office suite. Most notably Speaker, Google’s Microsoft PowerPoint alternative, now allows offline access.

At the moment the offline features are limited to viewing, but that allows you to give a presentation without needing an internet connection. The Docs team had previously released limited offline features for other Google apps like Spreadsheets and Presentations. The offline features require the Google Gears plugin (which, regrettably, still isn’t Firefox 3 compatible).
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Starting this week, a lucky group of pilot customers in Texas will get 5 gigabytes of traffic per month for $29.95. After they exceed that cap (on day one, no doubt) each additional gigabyte will run them $1. There’s also a “high-end” package: 40 gigs for $55.I ran a home server on Time Warner Cable for several years; now, mercifully, I have a much better provider. Even serving nothing but IMAP, as I did, would be quite costly under this new plan, which I’m sure is part of the case for the capping — TWC doesn’t want any users running servers. Their representative pitches it as a measure to tax the most gluttonous users of bandwidth: “5 percent of the company’s subscribers take up half of the capacity on local cable lines.” But even average browsing, YouTubing and Flickring, is going to rack up the gigabytes pretty fast.

Except where users are locked in by monopolies, they’ll doubtless be jumping ship to non-capping ISPs. Time Warner ought to be competing with the threat of cheap, uncapped floods of bandwidth brought by FIOS. Instead, the new rate system is competitive with burning DVDs and FedExing them. It’s not their first dubious business decision.

Dries Buytaert started down his path to fame when he coded up a private message board for his college dormitory. Nine years later, that modest bulletin board software package has grown into Drupal, one of the most popular open-source content publishing systems on the web with thousands of active contributors. In March 2008, Buytaert connected with entrepreneur Jay Batson, and together the two of them founded Acquia, a commercial venture that will provide technical support for Drupal’s devotees as well as further the adoption and development of the platform.

Webmonkey sat down with Dries and Jay to talk about the history of Drupal, where development is headed and the role their new company will play in the project’s future.

Photos: Jim Merithew/Wired

Webmonkey: Dries, can you give us Drupal’s back-story? The germ of the idea and how the platform grew into existence?

Dries Buytaert: It sort of happened by accident. I was a student at the University of Antwerp in Belgium around 1999. I was doing web development with CGI and server-side includes, but I wanted to learn more about technologies like PHP and MySQL. Also, at the same time, we had the need for an internal messaging system at our student dorm. So, I wrote a simple message board. Then when I graduated, I decided to move my internal message board onto the internet.
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