I came across an article on Webreference yesterday about a Canvas-based JavaScript sample for drawing lines. It's a huge script and the sample runs like a dog. So this morning I thought I'd churn out a dozen lines of code to do this in Flash but Richard Leggett beat me to it. Read his blog post on choosing the right tool for the job.

I was looking for the source for the various generators in Ruby on Rails in my Locomotive install and it took me a while to find them. For the record, I found it in:

Locomotive2 → Bundles → rails112.locobundle → i386 → lib → ruby → gems → 1.8 → gems → rails-1.1.2 → lib → rails_generator → generators

So, after the LiquidWeb debacle, I start looking for alternative hosting provider for OSFlash and it dawns on me that this is the perfect chance to start using Amazon's EC2.

So I try to log out of my regular account with Amazon to sign in with my developer account. Umm... well... I can't seem to log out. So I search for "logout". Lo and behold, I see a link in the results: "Need help with logging out?" Apparently, I'm not the only one who has tried to log out of Amazon.com. So I click the link and it brings me to a page titled Signing Out.

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Update: OSFlash is up and running again but I'm looking for a new hosting provider as I don't trust LiquidWeb following how they handled this incident.

Update: Adam emailed me back following their investigation into the matter. Here's what they found:

This seems to be an isolated incident. That being said, I don't think an upgrade at this point is necessary. From the best I can tell, this was cause by an hung apache child process. I'm not able to narrow it down further than that unfortunately.

The big issue here, of course, is they way they handled this incident -- by shutting down the OSFlash server. Instead, they should have (a) restarted the server, (b) noted whether or not the load issue resurfaced to see whether it was an isolated incident or not, (c) investigated the cause of the issue, and only then should they have emailed me with information on the issue and, if necessary, asked me to upgrade.
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This has been a good week for Flash accessibility.

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