Category: Agent K and the rest of the world

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Virtual communities on a globe

by kai on 17/10/2007

Nice (via e-commerce-blog.de)

Cheat sheets

by kai on 17/10/2007

My colleague Simon Pithers has digged out a nice source for cheat sheets - you know those nice A4 printouts that contain the most important information on syntax, semantics or keyboard shortcuts on a particular technology, product or game. I found the CSS one to be really handy. Talking about cheat sheets and giving the post at least a bit of a push towards being related to Adobe technology: Flex…

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Cool stuf: Ponoko

by kai on 15/10/2007

If you're interested in just cool stuff and alternative ideas/designs - have a look at Ponoko. Basically Ponoko is about laser-cutting kitsets, furnitures, decoration, wood etc. Just by accident I today found that two of my friends, Thomas and Hannah have done very, very cool stuff with it and put online. Check it out!

Aral Balkan explains SWX

by kai on 05/10/2007

During one of the MAX breakfast, I was having a chat with Aral Balkan about his open-source project SWX. SWX is a native data format for Flash player-based RIAs and it looks great. It currently supports the .swf format for up to version 8 and Aral is working on providing support for the new Virtual Machine used from FP 9 on.

Public sector HR ethics

by kai on 15/08/2007

Just posting this and asking for your opinion. Consider the following scenario: A government organisation (called ABC) hires a new senior manager (one level below the CEO) on some sort of a temporary fixed-term contract - after the previous manager had left to another institution. Let's call this person D. D then immediately needs to "take action" - that's what senior managers are supposed to do,…

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Adobe Livecycle ES

by kai on 11/08/2007

Adobe has just recently released the Livecycle ES suite. I've just returned from a train-the-trainer event in Sydney where I've learned about how to teach the first two LC ES classes of the Adobe certified curriculum. I was pretty excited to go from the first place, as it was really my first real world contact with "the other side" of Adobe. I've read a lot of stuff on LC 7.2 and played with a…

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Solved: good email client for OS X - PowerMail

by kai on 30/07/2007

The other day I've blogged about my struggle to find a well suited email client for Mac OS X. I've decided to give Mail.app another try, but I was heavily disappointed. Although the client is nice it just didn't work properly to import my huge mailbox files and it took literally minutes to render particular folder (a few thousand emails in one folder seems to be the maximum it could cope with).…

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HP Laserjet 1020 on OS X

by kai on 27/07/2007

When we've moved to New Zealand in 2005, the amount of luggage/stuff we were taking was limited. At that time, I owned a pretty fancy HP Laserjet 13something printer I was really happy with - due to luggage restrictions, I've some sort of parked it with my father-in-law who didn't mind :) I bought a pretty cheap printer (HP LJ 1020, one of those "Windows only" printers) and it worked alright with…

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Map24 for AU and NZ

by kai on 26/07/2007

Map24 used to be the leader of the pack when it came to online mapping technologies and routing when I was living back in Germany. Today I found (pretty much by accident) that they have a new Developer Network and an AJAX API for their maps and that they're also available pretty much world-wide. Their satellite images for NZ are not really usable for anything, haven't tested routing yet.

Wanted: A good email client for OS X

by kai on 25/07/2007

One of the reasons why I've been a bit quieter during the last 2-3 weeks is that I'm migrating my work environment from PC to Mac and this is a bit of work because besides playing with my new toy (2.4 GHz MBP, 4 GB RAM) I have to continue being at least a bit productive and earn some money :) Anyway - I'm pretty much done with moving all my data to the new machine, setting up software etc. All…

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