Category: Agent K and the rest of the world

263 posts

No Flash Lite 2 for UIQ

by kai on 26/01/2006

I've just been into an Adobe Breeze seminar on Flash Lite 2.0. It was pretty interesting in terms of the embracement of new technologies like video and sound playback, but to be honest - I don't think it is going to become the major breakthrough I've expected. Another flaw is the limitation in terms of platforms. Right now there is a developer beta version on Macromedia Labs which is available…

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Call for interviews !!!

by kai on 23/01/2006

As I've mentioned in the my last post, I'll speaking at Blog Hui 2006 about the evolution of the Macromedia and now Adobe blog community. For that, I'd love to do get feedback from you - why and when have you started blogging, what's your motivation, for how long do you think you're going to do it in the future, how many hours a week do you sacrifice for maintaining your blog... you know, all…

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Flashy and Psychic Valentine

by kai on 20/01/2006

A friend of mine being pretty fluent with Flash started a new business just recently. She has a special offer for Valentine's Day and as it's based on Flash, I didn't want to miss it out here: http://www.dragonflypsychic.com/valentine.html

Give it a try and enjoy!

PDF is surprisingly powerful

by kai on 17/01/2006

I've just watched a recorded breezo about Adobe LiveCycle and must admit that this line of products seems to be both interesting as powerful. I never really got involved with the details of Adobe's server technologies but I guess I should better be... :)

I didn't know that people actually _build_ stuff with it... take this sudoku game in a PDF as an example.

Dell, Google and Web 3.0?

by kai on 09/01/2006

Via e-Commerce-Blog: Some bloggers reported that alle the new Dell machines are going to be shipped with Google Desktop Search pre-installed and with a personalized version with the Google homepage preset as the browsers starting page. This personalized page looks pretty good and if offers a lot of Dell content. Is this the web 3.0 ? Is Google to even increase it's sphere of influence? No and…

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Speaking at webDU

by kai on 08/01/2006

I'm going to be in Sydney for webDU and I'm going to give a session on "Creating output with ColdFusion". It will cover different approaches how to create outout besides the old, common, boring HTML page ;) I'll cover stuff as CFREPORT and the report builder, CFDOCUMENT and maybe some more interesting approaches to create print-ready content with CF. Anyway, webDU is going to be a huge event this…

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MSSQL 2000 server weirdness

by kai on 04/01/2006

Today I've got a pretty strange one. I was setting up my new laptop at work when suddenly during the installation of MSSQL 2000 server the error "A previous program installation created pending file operations on the installation machine. You must restart the computer before running setup" popped up. Well, I've deinstalled some software just before but obviously I've rebooted my machine. So, I've…

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Macromedia Labs are live

by kai on 17/10/2005

Macromedia Labs went live today. Right now, there is the Flex 2 alpha available for download but as far as we were told, there is more stuff to come. All you need is a Macromedia web site ID which is free.

More about labs here.

I'm a Macromedia Master Instructor

by kai on 12/10/2005

I haven't been blogging for a while, sorry for that. The reason is basically that there are a lot of things happening in my life right now, that keep me really busy. I'm going to write about that in depth pretty soon - so keep reading ;) Nevertheless, there's one thing I'd like to post about. Some while ago, I started the process of acquiring the CTT+ certification (Certified Technical Trainer by…

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