new phone: Nokia n93

by kai on 02/02/2007

I've got myself a new mobile the other week: it had to be the Nokia n93. It's an awesome multimedia machine with a 3.2 MP camera, 3 x optical zoom, video close to DVD quality and WLAN. It runs s60 3rd edition and I really love it ;) Pretty awesome is also that Nokia finally got the Outlook/Exchange sync right and it syncs way better than all the Nokia phones I used to have (6630, 8210, 6310i,…

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Flex talk at Java User Group Wellington

by kai on 02/02/2007

I will give a presentation about Flex 2 at the Feburary 2007 meeting of the Java User Group in Wellington. The meeting details are: February 21st 2007, 5pm for a 5:15pm start - 6:30pm Location: Foundation for Research Science and Technology, 15-17 Murphy Street, Wellington - Meeting room, 11th Floor. The building is the AT&T tower in Thorndon. Title: Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and…

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Interesting article about myspace.com

by kai on 02/02/2007

From a ColdFusion/Java point of view, I found the following summary of MySpace issues and their tight hook into the Microsoft .NET space pretty interesting ;)

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4308

The referenced (and more detailed article) can be found at:
http://www.baselinemag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=198614,00.asp

They are both very good reads and pose a bunch of questions...

CF and web service stub/skeleton classes

by kai on 27/01/2007

This one is more of a reminder for myself ;-) I'm always slightly annoyed that ColdFusion caches the web services classes that it creates for later reuse - particularly during development.

Doug Boude blogged about how to overcome this via the almighty ServiceFactory (no support, folks) a while ago - I was just pointed to this by one of the other guys I'm working with at one of my current clients. Thanks Liam!

Customize your card(s)

by kai on 17/01/2007

A friend of mine has started a new business - card-shark.de. Basically it is about trick playing cards for magicians - those type of cards that have two diffent card types and values of the front side, a totally different back etc.

It's actually pretty cool and there seems to be a rather big demand. And you can also configure your own personal trick/magic cards with a nice rich internet application (click on "Online Card-Builder) in the navigation.

webDU 2007 - sessions

by kai on 16/01/2007

At this year's webDU 2007, I'm going to provide two sessions - a pre-conference hands-on workshop on Flex Data Services and a conference session titled: "ColdFusion, Flex and the wonderful world of web services and SOA".

That DOES indeed sound interesting - yes, I second that! Click on the image below to get the session descriptions and book your conference pass and my workshop ;)!

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webDU 2007 - 5 years of Daemon Goodness

by kai on 16/01/2007

webDU 2007 is approaching with faaaaaaast moves and I will be there. This is my 5th conference (out of 5, yeeeah) and as every year I'm sure it will be the best, most entertaining, friedliest, most social and most amazing and educating conference of the year! I hear you asking why - well, the Aussies and the New Zealanders are nice and friendly people (wonder who's kicking my butt for that in the…

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Happy New Year and some changes: Ventego Creative Ltd.

by kai on 14/01/2007

Happy New Year - yes, I know, it's Jan 15 already. Sorry for that, folks ;) There are some news to tell: I've left my full-time employment with ZeroOne in Wellington and Jan 12 was my last day. Starting from today I'm a self-employed Software Solutions Architect working for our own company: Ventego Creative Ltd. Just in case you wonder about the name: "ventego" is the Esperanto expression for…

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CF Flashforms and Safari

by kai on 19/12/2006

I've just had an interesting experience with a CF Flashform. I've built a Flashform-based survey application for a client and it worked just fine in IE and Firefox on different platforms. After a while the client came back and told us that their target audience (schools) are heavily into using the Safari browser on Mac and that they basically couldn't see the text of the survey questions. All the…

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Nectarine XMAS

by kai on 15/12/2006

I've just got an electronic xmas card from the guys at Nectarine. It's on a public website anyway, so have a look at this beauty from Australia and New Zealand's masters of animation: XMAS @ Nectarine.

And while you're doing that, make sure you've had a look at the 10th anniversary movie and the Flash 8 introduction from Nectarine. Oh - there are a few other interesting and linked characters on the card as well...

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