Nectarine goes comic strip: Barely Out Of Beta

by kai on 14/09/2007

The guys from Nectarine in New Zealand and Australia have hit the market with a new comic strip: Barely Out Of Beta. Minty has released the first strip earlier this week and the second followed yesterday night. The theme of the first two is a discussion well known in the Adobe/Microsoft RIA-community: Who invented the term RIA? Rumor says Nectarine's fans demand a daily comic strip, but it might…

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Want to buy a Mac in New Zealand?

by kai on 04/09/2007

As I've blogged a few weeks ago - Diane and I have converted to using Macbooks (I'm on a MBP, she's working on a nice 13" black Macbook). When we were considering our options buying, we were looking into the official Apple resellers which honestly are a rip-off in New Zealand price-wise. Luckily, after doing a bit of research, I found Triaxis Ltd., a company focussing on selling Apple products…

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Weird CF 8 installation issue on Parallels 3.0

by kai on 19/08/2007

I've tried to install CF 8 in my Parallels Win XP SP 2 Virtual Machine the other night. What happened was basically that the installer (InstallAnywhere) extracted all the files and also launched the actual installation wizard - but the windows of the installation window didn't render - it appeared to be just empty. Interesting enough - it wasn't empty - it basically turned out that all the…

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NZ National User Group Meeting

by kai on 15/08/2007

As mentioned in my last post - next week is Web On The Piste. On Day 0 (Tuesday) the New Zealand User Groups (ColdFusion and Flex) run a pre-conference event - (thanks for the support from Adobe to get this rolling) at Bezu in Queenstown. Also a big thanks to David, who put a lot of effort into this! The whole thing is called User Groups On The Piste and it would be awesome if we could get as…

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Web On The Piste sessions

by kai on 15/08/2007

Next week, Web On The Piste is on in Queenstown, New Zealand. Besides hopefully being on an interesting conference on Wed and Thu, we're staying through to Saturday to talk to some potential new clients (eehh, along the slopes :). Anyway - if you're there, make sure not to miss my uber-cool sessions (somehow I'v ended up doing 2 and a half): - Building Rich Experiences with Flex and Javascript…

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Public sector HR ethics

by kai on 15/08/2007

Just posting this and asking for your opinion. Consider the following scenario: A government organisation (called ABC) hires a new senior manager (one level below the CEO) on some sort of a temporary fixed-term contract - after the previous manager had left to another institution. Let's call this person D. D then immediately needs to "take action" - that's what senior managers are supposed to do,…

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Adobe Livecycle ES

by kai on 11/08/2007

Adobe has just recently released the Livecycle ES suite. I've just returned from a train-the-trainer event in Sydney where I've learned about how to teach the first two LC ES classes of the Adobe certified curriculum. I was pretty excited to go from the first place, as it was really my first real world contact with "the other side" of Adobe. I've read a lot of stuff on LC 7.2 and played with a…

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Powermail - the end of the story

by kai on 11/08/2007

The other week, I've blogged about my struggle to find a mail client on the Mac to suit my needs. After working with Powermail, I'm pretty happy now. The software is great, works very well for me and I can really recommend it. Apparently a few people who work with particular IMAP server setup have major issues, but that didn't concern me as I just want it to be my POP3 client anyway - so all good…

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www.bepacked.com is LIVE

by kai on 07/08/2007

A lot of people have asked me what I was working on during the last few months. It was sometimes a bit difficult to provide a proper answer to this due to the fact that we wanted to keep things a bit quite. Now it's time to reveal what I've been working on for ca. 50% of my time since I've started my own company, Ventego Creative Ltd, earlier this year... bepacked.com - A new way to discover…

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New Zealand CF 8 Launch Event

by kai on 06/08/2007

The NZ ColdFusion User Group is hosting a CF 8 launch event up in Auckland. You can either attend the meeting in person (food and drink would be provided) or tune in remotely via Adobe Connect. Please RVSP by tomorrow morning 9:30 am. Also worth a note - there will be a raffle of a ColdFusion 8 Standard edition server license - to be able to win you have to RVSP and attend the meeting (either in…

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