My personal review of Webstock 2010 - (part I: workshops)

by kai on 22/02/2010

Last week Wellington's IT and web crowd celebrated the annual Webstock week. You'd think that at the end of the day, Webstock is just another conference - but that would be quite of an understatement and completely miss the point. First of all, Webstock runs for pretty much a full week: Monday to Wednesday are filled with a bunch of 1/2-day or full-day workshops (to be booked and paid for on top…

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ParameterExists => isDefined

by marcus on 06/02/2010

Another quick regex: to perform a sitewide search/replace that replaces every "parameterExists" by "isDefined", simply do a:

Search: parameterExists\((*)\)
Replace: isDefined("\1")

That saved me at least 2 hours :-)

cfqueryparam / regular expression

by marcus on 06/02/2010

Currently, I'm migrating a CF5/Win project to CFMX9/Linux. Apart from the usual path issues, the one who programmed this app yeeears ago did not protect *any single* form- or url-variable inside CFQUERY against misuse or even SQL-Injection. Not one syntax check, no CFQUERYPARAM... *sigh* Unfortunately, it's impossible to perform a sitewide search/replace, so I have to open every single file…

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Speaking at Flash Platform User Group Wellington (New Zealand)

by kai on 05/02/2010

After the XMas break is now finally over and summer has arrived in Wellington, we're starting the monthly meetings of the Flash Platform User Group again. Actually we were known as the Flex User Group but went through a bit of self-finding and re-branding and the outcome is a broader focus on the overall Flash Platform. That also includes Flash, AIR, Flash Catalyst and associated things like the…

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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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Webinale 2010

by kai on 29/01/2010

Yay, Webinale 2010 in Berlin is on again (31/05 - 02/06) and I'm going to be hosting and moderating the RIA day at the conference. I'm quite happy and proud to have put together a super-interesting agenda (tentatively) with a quite international bouquet of speakers (in fact: Australia, New Zealand, France and Germany :-) 1. Kai Koenig: Wieviel RIA braucht der Mensch? (@agentk) 2. Thibault Imbert:…

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Disabling CTRL+ALT+DEL to login in Win 2k3 server

by kai on 29/01/2010

Args, this is one of those "note to myself" posts. Today I was looking (for the n-th time) for the local policy setting to switch of the necessity that a user has to press CTRL+ALT+DEL to login in a Win 2k3 server. It's particularly annoying as I'm running one for development purposes in a VM and I'm forced to use the VMWare Fusion menu to simulate the key stroke. Now, here it is: Launch Group…

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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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OS X quick look for Flex

by kai on 23/01/2010

A few days ago I posted about using qlcolorcode to display syntax highlighted ColdFusion code in Mac OS X's Finder's quick look. Now - I had a bit of a look into how to use/extend the same plugin for displaying Action Script and MXML code as well. Qlcolorcode already has built-in support for Action Script (although it's not complete and really 100% correct for AS3 as it appears to me), but it's…

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Accessible PDF documents and forms

by kai on 20/01/2010

Yes, to a lot of people's surprise PDF documents can be authored (and made afterwards) accessible. The keywords here are avoiding scanned paper documents (although OCR can do quite a lot) and in particular making use of tagging and reading order. A very good overview is provided by the Social Security Administration in the US. Although not everything in there is applicable in non-US countries due…

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