Five resons why I've watched too much Lost during the last few weeks

by kai on 14/11/2006

I've never watched Lost in TV. Some weeks ago (actually when season 3 started), I thought I'd give it a try (another addiction after Prison Break, 24 and Heros, come on, who cares ;) We've watched season 1 and 2 pretty much within a few days and now I'm up to speed with the latest happenings of season 3. Just the other day, when I was sitting in my plane to Seoul, I was thinking of the... 5 top…

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Off to MAX Korea now

by kai on 11/11/2006

I'm just hanging out in Auckland International's Koru longue to wait for my flight to Seoul (boarding starts in about 30 mins). I will attend MAX Korea over there - so if any of you reading this will be there as well - make sure to drop me a line and say hello during the conference. I'll be in the conference hotel and try to be online in Skype (use the big green "Skype me" button in the left…

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A framework for Java Swing

by kai on 11/11/2006

I've just finished reading a highly interesting interview/article and thought I'd share it. It's about Java Swing (a common class library for developing Java client/server applications) and it's lack of a proper application development framework. I've had a chat about exactly that with some guys at our local Java User Group the other months and while discussing their issues, I couldn't help…

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Styling Flex 2 applications

by kai on 11/11/2006

Last week I've presented at a user group meeting of CFUG Auckland via Breeze. We've got a pretty good turnout in terms of different domestc cities tuning in remotely as well.

The topic was "Styling Flex 2 applications", David has made the recording available on http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p24244278/.

"The ModelGlue guy" :) started his own company!

by kai on 03/11/2006

Pretty cool! Joe Rinehart - also known as the inventor of ModelGlue, my preferred CF development framework, quit his job and started his own company: Firemoss!

I'm sure he'd be happy if you check out his site and services when looking for Adobe consulting over there in the US...!

COM2Java

by kai on 01/11/2006

Today I've got some issues with bloody COM objects in ColdFusion. I have to say that I was able to avoid dealing with this type of third-party integration most of the time up to now - but in this particular situation for this particular client, there was just no other way. I've received an .ocx file, which is basically an ActiveX control. This .ocx file had to be registered on the Windows server…

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Web Designer's Success Guide - Free eBook

by kai on 31/10/2006

Kevin Airgid, who is a regular speaker at Flash in the Can, has made his eBook Web Designers Success Guide available for free on his website. The book is sponsored by Flash in the Can now. Cool stuff and interesting and good to read!

UPDATE: The download link on his website apparently currently doesn't work. Get the book from the FITC site instead: http://www.fitc.ca/downloads/wdsg_fitc.pdf

Java and open source

by kai on 27/10/2006

Finally the Java open source movement got another push. Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's CEO, announced that the Java Platform (the standard edition to be more precise) would be open-sourced within the next 30 to 60 days. That's very good, although it would probably not make a huge difference in regards to how people use Java right now. But an open-sourcing would allow people to enhance their…

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Effects Explorer link fixed...

by kai on 25/10/2006

Sorry for the linking issues, should work now. It's also linked from the right column of the starting page now.

Flex 2 Effects Explorer 0.1

by kai on 25/10/2006

My colleague and friend David Keutgens built a Flex 2 Effects Explorer application - following its "big brother" Flex 2 Style Explorer. Please note that I don't have to do anything with it (not yet ;) but just provide the information and the download (to give the tool a good headstart). We actually have no idea if someone developed such as thing before or if someone could use it at all, but here…

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