Update: Australian Google Nexus One devices come with firmware EPF30 as well

by kai on 01/07/2010

After I wrote and published my post on the doomed Froyo update situation for owners of the Google Nexus One phone purchased from Vodafone in Europe, the problem has hit Australia as well. Today, Vodafone Australia has announced that they start selling Google Nexus One phones in Australia. I saw it on Twitter and tried to find out what the story is re the firmware in Australia. Turns out that the…

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Google Nexus One: Why there's no Froyo (Android 2.2) for the European Vodafone version (EPF30) yet.

by kai on 01/07/2010

When I was living in Germany (back in the days) - Vodafone Germany used to be the most annoying mobile services provider ever. They basically took any phone they were selling, disassembled the firmware and the OS and rebranded the whole bloody device with their Vodafone corporate red, Vodafone live! and all sorts of other sh*t (yes, I mean it exactly this way). Those branding efforts often used…

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Adobe Master Collection CS5 breaks Flash Builder 4 Premium and how to fix it

by kai on 13/05/2010

Adobe's Master Collection CS5 contains Flash Builder 4 (Standard edition). That's actually awesome; it finally offers Flash CS5 users a way to use a professional and really well done Adobe tool to code applications and other rich media in ActionScript 3. Then there's Flash Builder 4 Premium which is being sold as a stand-alone tool that targets enterprise-level or in general more advanced Flex…

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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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Apple vs Adobe vs HTML 5 vs Apple vs Flash vs whatever

by kai on 30/04/2010

I'm fed up. It's enough. Thx. I don't care who started it; I don't care why Steve and Shantanu don't want to play with each other's companies anymore and I'm seriously fed up with everyone talking about nothing else. Disclaimer: I'm a Flex and Flash developer myself and I personally would have really liked to see any form of Flash support for the iPhone or iPad. But maybe it's time that everyone…

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Next Flash Platform User Group in Wellington: May 18, 2010

by kai on 28/04/2010

Topics: MySnapper Highs and Lows! Zaid Dabbagh (RIA Developer) and Sean Higham (Product Manager) from Snapper Services Limited (www.snapper.co.nz) present some of the highs and lows of developing MySnapper - an AIR Application that allows users to top up their Snapper Cards. This session explores limitations of AIR 1.0, and security flaws and how we had to work around those. We also explore other…

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Commit notification for SVN on Windows

by kai on 25/04/2010

Just recently I was working with one of my clients on their development process. Their infrastructure is primarily Windows-based and there's also a Windows-based SVN server that we use as the main repository storage. The task at hand was to setup commit hooks to create and send emails to a variety of people on successful commit. Now - on Linux or OS X that sounds like a trivial task (it actually…

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ColdFusion Builder, file encodings and i18n

by kai on 25/04/2010

I recently came across a discussion on the German ColdFusion mailing list where people talked about the alleged inability of ColdFusion Builder to deal properly with German umlauts. Phrases like "this product is completely unusable" or "this is a bug that has been continuously ignored by the CF Builder team" were used. After having tried it myself with files of a variety of encodings, I can…

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Unhandled exception in FormDesigner.exe - Excuse me?

by kai on 16/04/2010

This is just a heads-up / note to myself / note to everyone else on a weird issue I had today with LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2. I wanted to use an installation on a Win XP SP 2 VM (typical training or "I just need to quickly edit a form" setup for me). Said installation always worked fine and I never had any issues with it before. Firing it up today left me ending up with an "unhandled expection in…

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CENTEROS: Data Center Management with Flex

by kai on 14/04/2010

I just thought, I'd take a bit of time to show off one of the projects we've been working on recently: CENTEROS - an affordable software for Data Center Management. You all have an idea what a data center is, right? Quite large buildings hosting a vast amount of technology such as server racks and servers, air conditioning, diesel backup generators and much more. A data center is pretty much the…

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