James Ward is a Sell-Out

By James Ward | Published: June 3, 2008

I’ve gone commercial. Kinda. I just bought jamesward.com and it is now my primary domain name instead of jamesward.org. I liked the .org URL but it’s a less familiar URL to non-geeks. You say .com and everyone knows what you mean. The .org will still work – redirects right to here.

So I’m a sell-out. Gone .com. Good news is that you still won’t see any ads on my site.

Let me know if you have any problems with the new domain.

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  • http://almaer.com/blog Dion Almaer

    Oh man. Next time I see you I expect to see “jamesward.com” tattooed into our forehead ;)

  • http://www.bradwood.com Brad Wood

    Hey, there appears to be a bug in your .org to .com redirection with URL parameters getting re-encoded.

    I noticed it when my Flex Checker page starting returning false for everything.

    Paste this into your browser:
    http://www.jamesward.org/is_it_flex/?url=te%20st (The %20 is a url encoded space obviously– just for the sake of a simple example.)

    And you getm redirected to here:
    http://www.jamesward.com/is_it_flex/?url=te%2520st

    Note the .com wasn’t the only thing to change. The percent sign in the encoded space was double-encoded to %2520

    My obvious solution is to point http://www.bradwood.com/is_it_flex/ to the .com, but I thought I would warn you since that probably isn’t the desired behavior.

    Thanks.

    ~Brad

    P.S. Have you checked out ColdFusion yet?

  • http://www.sergejespers.com Serge Jespers

    Hey James,

    /census isn’t working anymore since you switched the domain :(

    Serge

  • http://www.jamesward.org James Ward

    Hi Brad,

    I made a change to the Apache mod_rewrite rule but I don’t think it’s fixed. I looked around and it doesn’t seem like I can fix this. Sorry.

    Serge,

    The Census app should be fixed now.

    -James

  • http://www.bradwood.com Brad Wood

    No worries, I just pointed my flex checker to .com and I am am good to go.
    I am actually working on a version 2 of the flex checker. The first version didn’t parse out swf files written into the DOM after the page loaded. I let you know when I am finished.

    ~Brad

  • http://www.jamesward.org James Ward

    Cool stuff Brad. If you want to use your own stuff rather than mine to check if it’s Flex, you can use the swfdump application in the open source Flex SDK. But feel free to keep using my site if you want.

    -James

  • http://onefinemess.wordpress.com Andy

    I’m morally outraged.
    Complex, convex, distressed.

  • http://bassexchange.co.uk ashley

    hey james, i need some little help, how would i make a chatroom on flex that has cam and mics and also were u have to join and has admins and sort of like flashchat but better lol