Category: Agent K and the rest of the world

263 posts

If you work with lawyers who have no idea of the web...

by kai on 06/12/2006

New Zealand has a new online micropayment system - Pago. Currently Pago is some sort the target of a lot of interesting discussions down here. Disclaimer: Please note that I have not been to the Pago website myself. I got all the information from an anonymous colleague of mine who has been to their website apparently. Additionally a lot of that was mentioned on the NZ 2.0 google group and this…

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Web Designer's Success Guide - Free eBook

by kai on 31/10/2006

Kevin Airgid, who is a regular speaker at Flash in the Can, has made his eBook Web Designers Success Guide available for free on his website. The book is sponsored by Flash in the Can now. Cool stuff and interesting and good to read!

UPDATE: The download link on his website apparently currently doesn't work. Get the book from the FITC site instead: http://www.fitc.ca/downloads/wdsg_fitc.pdf

Adobe Digitals Edition (beta)

by kai on 25/10/2006

Adobe released a pretty cool new product on Labs: Adobe Digitals Edition (beta). Pretty bluntly said: It's an ebook reader - but it's an ebook reader on steroids as it manages your ebooks, as it has a small footprint (2.5 mb download) and as it is a Rich Internet Application running in the Flash Player resp. as an add-in to the Flash Player 9 (I assume this is done similar to how the Breeze…

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Rant: Lufthansa.com

by kai on 03/07/2006

It's time for another rant about bad user experience. I'm going to Europe in August for roughly 2 1/2 weeks because a very good friend of mine is getting married. The to-Germany leg of the journey is my rescheduled return flight from last December's flight to New Zealand (when we moved here). That said, I just needed to book a one-way flight back to NZ. That was totally smooth because I used a…

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Some more awesome Nectarine work

by kai on 19/06/2006

We have just launched another product at ZeroOne. Being a Microsoft hosting partner, we offer AnywhereExchange services now - which is awesome and a really nice technology - but that's not the reason for this blog post. This post is about some artwork to be found on anywhereexchange.co.nz (click on what is it? and how does it work?). If you follow the Flash community a bit and the animation work…

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The flow

by kai on 30/03/2006

For some reason, I'm really keen on blogging today. One of those days... anyway - after contributing some stuff to ZeroOne's teamblog theword today, I need to post at least one new entry over here... BTW: Make sure to read my post on Outsourcing to New Zealand :-) This one is about 'the flow'. If you're a developer you might know it - it's the mood you're getting into when coding - in an ideal…

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Some mixed stuff

by kai on 18/03/2006

Some mixed stuff and links that I came across during the last few days:

Good CSS tutorials

Microsoft IE Active Content Update - particularly important for Flash developers
Breezo on IE Update
Flex 1.5 patch for IE update

Nokia Flash Lite Zone

Tons of stuff on labs.adobe.com:

XMP toolkit
Breezo on Flex-Ajax integration
AS 3 libraries
Flex-Ajax integration

Search Engines and Flash

Everything Flex Blog

An interesting discussion on expiring form data in CFFORMS

Awesome use of Flash

by kai on 08/03/2006

The National Bank of New Zealand launched a great web application based on Flash. Well, the application is not rocket science, but the idea is just awesome. The National Bank is one of New Zealand's full service banks. That said, they offer a wide range of personal or business services. One of them is an EFTPOS card (in other countries that might be called bank card, EC card, cash card),…

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Mollio and Aura

by kai on 08/03/2006

As officially being "design-challenged", I'm always looking for ways to be able to actually put at least anything online that looks more or less pretty. Usually I try to use some sort of stylesheet templates and tweak them to my needs. A very good approach for that is Aura by Ben Bishop.

Just recently Daemon released Mollio, that seems to follow a similar approach. Looks very interesting though, I'll give a try soon!

Apollo != widgets :-)

by kai on 02/03/2006

Mike Chambers kicked my butt :-) After I've posted on Apollo earlier this morning apparently people started asking him about the widget functionality I've mentioned.

Well, to make the point on that again: Mike never mentioned that Apollo purely is a widget building toolkit or anything like that - it is just one of the possible and my private interpretation of the Apollo technology. As far as we've seen today Apollo will provide way more possibilities than just building widgets, ok? :-)

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