A story of the past

by kai on 03/07/2007

I was inspired to write this entry while reading Agent M's post about his new endeavours in starting his own company in Germany together with Bernd. It's a post about the past, basically about how M and K met, worked together and about the company we used to work for. I've started doing CF in the late 90s and at some point in early 2001 ended up working as a Software Architect for a company…

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Travel mashup raffle

by kai on 03/07/2007

And now - as a reward for those who read my last post, a small competition with a nice price to win: A Total Training DVD "Total Training for Adobe Flex 2" hosted by James Talbot How to get it? The first person to send me an email to kai (at) thisdomainhere answering correctly the following questions is going to win this DVD. 1. What's the reason for this trip? 2. What are departure city, the…

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Air NZ: Google maps mashup

by kai on 03/07/2007

Air NZ recently seem to work with a few people who know what they're doing. After releasing their nice "How far can you go?" RIA, I've just found a (beware of hype terminology :-) mashup using Google maps on their website. Sadly I can't link to it, as I'd have to provide you with my booking reference - but the story is bascially that after making a booking with them, one is able to look at "my…

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Independence Day

by marcus on 02/07/2007

What might make a person quit its job and become self-employed? Sometimes, there are opportunities that you just can't ignore... To make it short: starting on the 4th of July, Bernd Mühlenbeck, a msg coworker , and me will launch at.net websolutions Yes, the name is a mash-up of the names of the companies we worked before (msg at.net / msg websolutions). Basically, we're taking charge of their…

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JSON and CF 7

by kai on 28/06/2007

This one is more a personal bookmark for myself, but it might be interesting for others as well. Chris just asked about JSON support in CF on the CFUGNewZealand list and I've recommended using CFJSON, which I'm pretty happy with.

While looking for the link I found Ben Nadel's posts about his own, modified version of CFJSON which seems to be interesting and def. worth a look.

Also, don't forget that CF 8 has some nice and inbuilt features to deal with JSON...

Air NZ "How far can I go": Innovative RIA!

by kai on 26/06/2007

After bitching about the poor online booking facilities of House of Travel, Flightcentre and STA Travel NZ yesterday, I'm happy to show you a cool, innovative and rich sales support tool by Air New Zealand: "How far can I go?"

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It's easy to use and motivates potential customers to book a flight for a vacation or the occasional weekend trip with them ("Hey darling, let's spend $200 for flights and see what we could do with it!").

Well done, Air NZ, well done!

Some interesting facts about...

by kai on 25/06/2007

...porn! Michael from e-commerce-blog.de posted this one the other day (he's surfing on the "I blog about 'your porn'" wave to get traffic :). Awesome video - would you believe me that you're actually learning a few things?

Yes, I know, I'm using the fact that this is actually a hot chick - before you complain about sexism - shot a similar video starring a handsome guy and I'll post it as well! Besides that - putting it online here has been officially permitted by Diane :)

Travel sites in New Zealand

by kai on 25/06/2007

The other day Ashley McKee was writing about hotwire.com, a travel site that - well... - didn't get the concept of multi-city flight bookings quite right. Bascially they're offering the option and then forward their customers to expedia.com - why would you do that? To show you that hotwire.com is not even at the lower end of what travel sites throughout the world have to offer, let's have a look…

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IIS shutdown on Windows

by kai on 25/06/2007

One of my clients' production CF servers went down during the weekend. When investigating the issue this morning, we actually found that it was not ColdFusion itself that crashed, but IIS - symptoms: "Service unavailable" pages when you were requesting any type of page from the server. The event logs listed the following: A process serving application pool 'DefaultAppPool' terminated…

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flashplayermobile.com?

by kai on 24/06/2007

Has anyone seen flashplayermobile.com yet? It seems to be a stand-alone .swf player for Pocket PC - but based on the official ActiveX control from Macromedia/Adobe?

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