A look into onApplicationStart (ColdFusion)

by kai on 20/01/2010

Well, most of you would know that the onApplicationStart() method in ColdFusion's Application.cfc is a single-threaded method that's being executed by ColdFusion after the start of the application. The reason for an application having the necessity to start could for instance be that CF or the underlying machine has been restarted or that the application had run into its timeout. Recently while…

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OS X quick look for ColdFusion

by kai on 19/01/2010

I haven't blogged for ages - but that's not the point of this post. I recently had to quickly glance over a whole lot of legacy CF files and I didn't want to have to open each individual file in my preferred IDE. OS X supports quick look by hitting the space bar in finder for a lot of file types, ColdFusion wasn't supported so far. The other day then I found a quick look plugin named qlcolorcode…

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Hints from someone who travels too often

by kai on 23/05/2009

Before I start this post - I'm already in the process of rebuilding this blog: new engine, new look & feel etc. Just not finished yet - so don't complain :-) This is just a quick post that comprises a random dump of thoughts on air travel, a few recommendations and links to tools I find useful. The fact that I'm writing this post in a Thai Royal Silk lounge in Bangkok should tell you already…

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Webstock Trading Card Game - final wrap-up

by kai on 23/03/2009

This blogpost was sitting in a text file on my hard drive for quite a while now and I finally finished it last night. It's going to be the final wrap-up of the Webstock 09 trading card game, Minty and I've run at the conference. Besides pushing out the complete results table, I also want to go over a few statistics. The bandwith of the scores achieved by the players was 287 to 672.5. The median…

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Accessing the console session on Windows Terminal Services from OS X

by kai on 23/03/2009

This is a sort of note-for-myself post. Just today I needed to use Remote Desktop to jump onto a Windows 2003 Server of a client. Only problem - all the client licenses were blocked and I couldn't get in. Out of office hours. Grrr. Solution: use the console session (session 0). By the way - can ANYONE explain me why it's called console session? I mean - where's the console? It's still a UI with…

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Installing OS X on a Dell Mini 9

by kai on 10/03/2009

People who follow me on Twitter might have noticed that I was eagerly awaiting the delivery of a black Dell Mini 9 during the last 2 weeks. Finally I got it the other day and right away converted it into an OS X machine - who wants Windows XP on such a beautiful little netbook anyway? My configuration is: Black Dell Mini 9, 1 GB of RAM and the 16 GB solid state drive. Dell NZ just offers the…

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Transforming Pamela Fox :)

by kai on 14/02/2009

Just some more insights into running the Webstock Trading Card Game :) When we planned the cards, photos of the speakers served as templates for the beautiful comic faces on the cards. At some point late the week before last the final layouts and everything were sent off to the printer and Mike dropped off the cards at my place this morning. Unfortunately running a Trading Card Game at a…

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Most amazing out-of-office notification

by kai on 12/02/2009

Just sent an email to Duane Nickull (already knowing that he's off snowboarding to Whistler). That's what I got as an automated reply (I crossed out the cell # and date here): --- quote --- I am on vacation at Whistler, BC, probably having more fun that you if you are reading this. I will be back xxx, xxx xxx. If something is real important, you can try my cell (xxx) xxx xxxx but I will not…

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We've done it again - Webstock Trading Card Game

by kai on 11/02/2009

Some people might remember back to the webDU conference and the Trading Card Game that was run during the conferece. I've blogged about it back then and sneak-previewed my card. Now, Nectarine and Ventego did it again and we're running a complete new version of the game at Webstock 09 in Wellington, New Zealand. Ruleset by Minty; logical validation and scoring tool by Kai and the beautiful design…

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Pilots have to sit here :-)

by kai on 24/12/2008

This is going to be one of the last entries for this year, I suppose. It's a funny one, but also at least somewhat related to Flash and Flex *g* Air New Zealand have recently rebuilt their Frequent Flyer portal using Flex. That's cool in general, I don't like the way how particular things have been done and are integrated with the site, but I understand they apparently had to push it out and are…

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