Category: New Zealand

25 posts

30 days of me - day 11

by kai on 19/09/2010

Animals are my friends too. Here's a photo of Lamb, Max (also known as @karoricat on Twitter) and myself.

30 days of me - day 9

by kai on 17/09/2010

Another late one - I really need to prepare a few more for next week in advance during the weekend, I suppose.

Today's topic is "Something I'm proud of in the past few days"... Probably the thing that comes to mind was pulling off Flash Platform Camp for the second time now in 2010 about two weeks ago together with Diane and Ross. Other than that in the last few days and weeks - lots of business as usual - as boring as it might sound :-)

Results of the NZ mobile carrier Friday challenge

by kai on 17/09/2010

This morning I posted a "Friday challenge for Vodafone NZ, Telecom NZ and 2degree Mobile". The idea was for the three large mobile networks in NZ to come up with a response to a typical scenario of a mobile device user looking for a good and reasonably priced plan/package structure. Everyone had time until 5:30 pm today (with a potential extension of 15 minutes or so because the server had an…

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A Friday challenge for Vodafone NZ, Telecom NZ and 2degrees Mobile

by kai on 17/09/2010

New Zealand is a small country in the South Pacific. We're far away from the rest of the world, have a quite large landmass (about the size of Germany) and very few people to fill it with (about 4.5 million compared to Germany's 80 million). This setting creates an interesting scenario for a bunch of industries, among them the telecommunications sector. One of the most expensive services in New…

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Flash Platform Camp Wellington presentations

by kai on 13/09/2010

Flash Platform Camp Wellington 2010 is over and it was good fun. I'm going to write a larger post about it (also covering the night activities of speakers and sponsors). This post is really just to push out the page where the presentation materials e.g. slides, code samples, videos etc. are hosted. At the moment, 7 presenters have supplied me with their content, I've got another one or two emails…

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Flash Platform Code Camp Wellington 2010

by kai on 01/05/2010

We're doing it again - Flash Platform Code Camp Wellington is back: Flash Platform Code Camp Wellington - the 2010 Edition! Mark the date: Saturday, 4th of September 2010 Venue: Natcoll Design Technology in Wellington's CBD This is a community event from and for Developers and Designers and organised by the Flash Platform User Group New Zealand with lots of support from the Creative Suite User…

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Adobe Refresh in Asia Pacific

by kai on 01/02/2010

This is just a quick reminder that Adobe is running a series of Refresh events across Asia Pacific in February. Perth and Sydney are apparently booked out resp. very close to being booked out - but there are places left for Brisbane, Melbourne and Auckland. --- snip --- Join Adobe in a dynamic live presentation to REFRESH your understanding of the most recent initiatives in the areas of content…

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Why Air New Zealand is the Airline of the Year!

by kai on 25/01/2010

Air New Zealand (short Air NZ from here on) - my home turf airline - has recently been named Airline of the Year in the Air Transport World magazine awards. There are plenty of reasons why they absolutely have deserved to win this award. Plenty, really! Lance Wiggs has listed a few of those from his point of view and I couldn't agree more (Make sure you read it, Lance's post is really interesting…

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Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act

by kai on 15/10/2007

About 6 weeks ago, the New Zealand government implemented the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act, also known as "anti-spam legislation". In theory this is a very good move but as most of the spam in New Zealand (as probably anywhere else) comes from without the country, it doesn't really solve the problem. Even worse - domestic businesses need to be very aware now who to send emails and…

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CF developers wanted in Wellington, New Zealand

by kai on 14/04/2007

Where are all the good CF developers in New Zealand, particularly in Wellington? I currently have two clients based in Wellington that are looking for ColdFusion developers to either hire or for mid-/long-term contracting, various level of expertise from junior to guru wanted.

If by any chance someone who's currently reading this is interested, contact me off-blog via email to kai (at) "this domain" and I'll get you in touch with those folks.

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