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On the main page ofour Kipdola site is a flash video just under the menu. When a menu expands, it unfortunately hides behind the flash file. That's incredibly annoying.

I searched for a few fixes. Some suggested to adjust the z-index of the menu, but that still did not work. At least not in Firefox. And then I found out you actually have to add a few parameters to the object itself. These, to be precise:

<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />

This goes in the <object> element. For it to work on both Firefox and IE you have to add another one to the <embed> element. Like this:

<embed src="http://some.url/flash.swf" wmode="transparent">

So the video in the showcase section on our frontpage has this code:

<object width="400" height="225"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /> <param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11104140&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" /> <embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11104140&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225" wmode="transparent"> </embed> </object>

It also does what it says: makes the flash object transparent. Vimeo, for example, shows a little animation while loading the video. With transparency turned on this isn't drawn on a black background, but directly on your page. Which is pretty

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Have you ever had a bunch of subdirectories each filled with only one zip file? Or have you ever had a task that needed to be done in the same way? Well here's a handy little line of code that will help you on your way!

find -name '*.zip' | xargs -n1 echo unzip

This doesn't actually do anything yet, it searches for .zip files in every subdirectory relative to the one you're currently in and then echoes what it'll do to those files once you remove the `echo` command So actually typing:

find -name '*.zip' | xargs -n1 unzip

Will perform the command. Another example, if you want to copy lots of files from the subdirectory of one map to another, you can do this:

find /home/user/map/ -name "*.txt" | xargs -i cp -v .

This will copy every .txt file under any directory, starting from /home/user/map/, to your current directory. (No matter where you are)

I love it, and it has saved me lots of time!

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Binny V A over at Bin-Blog has written something marvellous: a print_r function for Javascript.

What does it do? It takes an array (or hash or object) and prints out every key with its value. If it comes along another array, it does the same thing again. It's such a useful feature in PHP, it's a great debugger-friend.

There are a few code snippets out there that do the same job, but I thought this one was quite small and compact. Don't forget to wrap it in a <pre> tag to get a nice layout.

/** * Function : dump() * Arguments: The data - array,hash(associative array),object * The level - OPTIONAL * Returns : The textual representation of the array. * This function was inspired by the print_r function of PHP. * This will accept some data as the argument and return a * text that will be a more readable version of the * array/hash/object that is given. * Docs: http://www.openjs.com/scripts/others/dump_function_php_print_r.php */ function dump(arr,level) else } } else return dumped_text; }