The other day someone asked me...

by kai on 24/03/2008

...about my opinion on the open-sourcing of Blue Dragon that has been announced a few weeks ago. To be honest: I do like it and I truely and honestly hope that they will manage to form a community around the open-source version of their product. Lots of people discussed the topic and it's meaningfulness for Adobe, ColdFusion, Blue Dragon, the web, the community and the whole world. Some of them…

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ActionScript 3 RIA Reference Guide

by kai on 24/03/2008

Not sure if everybody out there came across that one yet. Adobe has published an ActionScript 3 Reference Guide booklet. Very nice and handy, pdf is available on Developer Center - the printed version will be distributed on various events in the future.

Flying news

by kai on 24/03/2008

Some people might remember that I've started my aviation "career" a bit more than one year back from now. Well, at some point in early March 2007 I've done a trial flight at the local Aero Club down at Wellington International. Last July I started my training towards the New Zealand PPL to become a private pilot and I'm finally getting there. My plan was to get throught the training and all the…

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Plenty of CF jobs in Auckland

by kai on 24/03/2008

Currently it appears is a lot of ColdFusion work available up in Auckland. A friend of mine, Liam Donaldson, is looking for a developer to work on his site bookabach.co.nz which has just recently been acquired by the AA - The job ad is stiill online. Liam is a great guy to work with, if you're in Auckland and looking for a new CF challenge, I'd strongly recommend to have a chat to him. Also, the…

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Webstock recordings

by kai on 24/03/2008

A few weeks back in February, Webstock 08 was on in Wellington. Webstock is a pretty much technology-independent web conference and some sort of a big event here in New Zealand. I've attended a few sessions (thanks to Mark Blair who had his ticket transferred to me as he couldn't attend) and it was pretty interesting.

Now, the video recordings are available for public download - have a look guys, lots of interesting information to grab!

Adobe Developer Week is on now...

by kai on 24/03/2008

Starting today, Adobe offers a range of online seminars as part of the Adobe developer week. Topics cover all sort of things, from CF via AIR and Flex to PDF integration and CS3.

The sessions are during the day US Pacific time, which makes at least some of them feasible to tune into for us antipodeans in NZ and even Australia. Registration is necessary, quick - off you go! :)

Adobe MAX 2008 dates, locations and sites and again no India

by kai on 24/03/2008

Adobe has just recently launched the Adobe MAX 2008 conference hub site. The dates and locations have already been talked about in the community for quite a while and there will be three MAX 2008 events again - North America, Europe and Japan. San Francisco is probably the place to go for me, given that I can just hop on a direct flight from Auckland to SF - very handy. I have to admit though…

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Varnish HTTP Accelerator

by marcus on 22/02/2008

A few days ago, I was searching for a reverse proxy that is capable of caching dynamic content for a specified period of time. Apache2 + mod_proxy / disk_cache seemed to be the perfect solution, but in fact it did not work properly in the scenario I set up (LAMP / Typo3). After googling around, I did *not* try squid, as I found the Varnish HTTP accelerator.To sum it up: that thing works. I…

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SoyLatte 1.0 - Java 6 for OSX

by kai on 06/12/2007

As Landon Fuller has blogged yesterday, SoyLatte 1.0 has been released. SoyLatte is a project to port BSD Java 6 for Mac OSX 10.4 and 10.5 . Why this is interesting? Apple doesn't seem willing or capable of releasing Java 6 for OSX themselves and it's really annoying that I have to boot up my Parallels VM when I need to use a Java 6 JDK for particular projects. Also: CF 8 on Windows runs…

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PDF on its way to become an ISO standard

by kai on 06/12/2007

This one is interesting: Jim King's inside pdf reports on the fact that PDF 1.7 passed the ballot to become the ISO 32000 (DIS) standard by a vote of 13:1. That's a very good result and will hopefully contribute to the acceptance of PDF document in governments and also when it comes to web standards. The whole ISO process hasn't been completed yet. There are a few 100 comments the working group…

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