Virtualizing OS X 10.5 Client on OS X 10.5

by kai on 06/12/2008

With VMWare Fusion 2, VMWare has built support for installing the OS X 10.5 server operating system into the product. For various (I suppose licensing) reasons, VMWare Fusion 2 doesn't allow one to install OS X 10.5 client - the setup wizard of Fusion would just not allow it. The technical reason is basically that Fusion is checking for the existence of a file…

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Hightlighted borders in LiveCycle Designer

by kai on 24/11/2008

I came across a slightly weird issue the other day when building forms in LiveCycle Designer. LC forms offer the nice and simple feature of being able to create form elements that render highlighted in Reader or Acrobat Pro when mandatory. For whatever reason I had a few form elements in which the form element itself rendered highlighted but also the larger box comprising the element's…

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Setting up preview for texlipse on OSX

by kai on 15/11/2008

And now for something completely different. When I'm doing writing, I usually try to use LaTeX whenever possible. If you have no idea what I'm talking about - have a look at the Wikipedia entry for LaTeX to get an overview. The 30,000 feet picture is that it's a way to produce the most beautiful electronic typesetting ever know to mankind. Anyway - Stefan and I are embarking to write a fairly…

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CF 8.0.1: Deleting a file after attaching it to an email

by kai on 13/11/2008

There's a tiny, little new feature in CF 8 Updater 1 that I bet not many people even know about - I didn't until yesterday. It came up during a discussion on cfaussie about attaching files to outgoing emails just the other day and it basically solves the problem of deleting a file after it having been sent as an email attachment. Just add a remove="true" attribute to your CFMAILPARAM tag used to…

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The monitoring service is not available

by marcus on 19/09/2008

If your CF8 installation starts without error, but returns an error 500 stating something like...

"500 the monitoring service is not available"

...on each request, then probably your neo-monitoring.xml is corrupt. This solution did the trick for me:

-Rename or delete the corrupt {cf_dir}/lib/neo-monitoring.xml
-Restart CF

CF then creates a new neo-monitoring.xml, but totally refuses to work if this file has 0 bytes.

Edge of the Web conference, Perth 2008

by kai on 17/07/2008

Awesome, I'll be traveling over to Perth in November to attend the Edge of the Web conference. I'm going to do a regular conference session during the main conference (Nov 6) and will offer a 1/2 day workshop on the day after the main conference (Nov 7). The topic of the 1/2 day workshop on Friday will be most likely closely related to Adobe's AIR platform (stay tuned for details); but I'm not…

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What's wrong with those people and their animals :) ?

by kai on 17/07/2008

It seems some people I know and who are also more or less heavily involved in the Adobe community have a reasonably "different" relationship to (their) animals. Let's start with Kay. Well known blogger, friend and co-worker of mine and a fellow Adobe Ambassador. Back in the days, she used to own a goat. Fair enough and that's why she ended up with the (not that well known) nickname goatlady. But…

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Best use of AIR so far? :)

by kai on 17/07/2008

I got this via Matt Voerman while having a Skype chat conversation with him. Desktop Keely seems to be very close to being the best use of the AIR technology so far, LOL. Having downloaded the "application" immediately after Mr. Voerman kindly pointed me to this excellent use of the platform, I started to study the way it's been built. Make sure you'll have a look at the video on the "Behind the…

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Web on the Piste

by kai on 16/07/2008

Web of the Piste 2008 is not to far away - August 20 and 21, 2008. For all those of you not knowing the conference from last year, it's a RIA technology event down in Queenstown, New Zealand. Diane and I went down there last year and we had a lot of fun staying in Queenstown, experiencing the snow, we drove up to Wanaka for a day etc. Oh, besides all that fun there was a conference as well :) -…

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Adobe Ambassador

by kai on 15/07/2008

Just recently, I was appointed to be one of the Adobe Ambassadors for the Pacific region - namely Australia and New Zealand. I hear you asking... "Well, what does it mean?" There's a pretty easy and nice definition: An Adobe Ambassador is a recognised industry professional whom Adobe has approached to represent them in the Pacific region. They are an expert of the Adobe tools. They understand…

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