ColdFusion 8 is not an immature and unproven technology! Get it please!

by kai on 15/10/2007

Sometimes, I'm just running out of arguments when discussing with people about the future of ColdFusion as their platform or about upgrade paths etc. The following happened just the other week. Organisation A works with ColdFusion for a very long time (since CF 3 or so). You'd expect them to know about it and to value/appreciate it - why would you bother to stick with it if you think it's total…

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Cool stuf: Ponoko

by kai on 15/10/2007

If you're interested in just cool stuff and alternative ideas/designs - have a look at Ponoko. Basically Ponoko is about laser-cutting kitsets, furnitures, decoration, wood etc. Just by accident I today found that two of my friends, Thomas and Hannah have done very, very cool stuff with it and put online. Check it out!

CFCs in CF 8 are REALLY fast

by kai on 15/10/2007

I'm working on a project which partly makes use of Mark Mandel's Tranfer framework. As with most of the object-oriented frameworks, it makes a pretty heavy use of CFCs. Whereas this was working reasonably well with CF 7, I found that in a particular set of use cases, ORM processing could easily take 2-3 seconds. Just for fun and the sake of giving it a try, I've put the same code in a CF 8…

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Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act

by kai on 15/10/2007

About 6 weeks ago, the New Zealand government implemented the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act, also known as "anti-spam legislation". In theory this is a very good move but as most of the spam in New Zealand (as probably anywhere else) comes from without the country, it doesn't really solve the problem. Even worse - domestic businesses need to be very aware now who to send emails and…

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Aral Balkan explains SWX

by kai on 05/10/2007

During one of the MAX breakfast, I was having a chat with Aral Balkan about his open-source project SWX. SWX is a native data format for Flash player-based RIAs and it looks great. It currently supports the .swf format for up to version 8 and Aral is working on providing support for the new Virtual Machine used from FP 9 on.

Diane and Kai's "art"

by kai on 04/10/2007

The MAX 2007 event party had some sort of a customizable art installation (Adobe Creativity Conducted). You could use Wii remotes to draw wild and weird patterns on a huge screen and then upload it to a public Flickr account :)

Here is ours - well, we're not artists :) But check out the photostream, there are really cool ones.

MAX 2007 Chicago is...over...:-(

by kai on 04/10/2007

So, MAX 2007 is finally over. It's been a great conference and I'm very happy that I've had the chance to come over. I haven't had the chance to do much blogging here in BIB as I was reporting from MAX 2007 for the German online magazine Create Or Die and spent a lot of time writing content for them. But I feel that I should at least provide some sort of my personal wrap-up. I've seen a lot of…

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Webstock 08

by kai on 04/10/2007

Webstock has become some sort of a New Zealand icon when it comes to web and internet technology conferences. Webstock 08 is being plannend to be held in Wellington in February next year and its registration has just been opened. Check it out on their site - sessions, workshop, parties - everything.

Adobe Refresh

by kai on 02/10/2007

Adobe Australia is running two "Refresh" events in Melbourne and Sydney to update the folks who couldn't make it to MAX about the new and upcoming stuff. The dates are 30th and 31st October for Sydney and Melbourne. More here on Geekglue.

MAX Chicago 2007

by kai on 02/10/2007

Diane and I are currently at MAX 2007 Chicago. Sorry for being lazy with blogging, but the wireless network is playing really bad tricks with me, I always have to go into the press room to get connection, in other spots it's just too unstable to get anything done. Anyway, So far it's been great. There have been a bunch of interesting announcements such as Flash Player 10, the acquisition of the…

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