Way off topic: German politics

by kai on 17/08/2005

To mark that point very clearly: this if off-topic. It's neither an official statement of bloginblack.de nor of Agent M, it's just my private opinion of the general election rally getting started over here. Well, to give you an introduction: This country is governed by a SPD/Green coalition. For all those people not knowing the SPD - compare it to the US Democrats and you're not too far away...…

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Let's do the timewarp again...

by kai on 16/08/2005

Back in the late nineties, a lot of companies burned their cash for...well...ideas, dreams of getting rich, Sun 450 servers, over-priced Oracle licenses, sushi for lunch, an expensive office and some more stuff. I used to work for one on those companies in 2000 and had some sort of timewarp experience just recently. A former work-mate of mine started blogging and found some old sites we built and…

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Flashforum Conference Tour 2005

by kai on 15/08/2005

The German Flashforum Conference 2005 will be held as a tour, travelling through different cities and three different countries (Germany, Austria and Switzerland). If you have attended last year's conference in Düsseldorf, you probably remember back to it as a very good event with a lot of interesting sessions. This year's tour stop in Duesseldorf will be on Sept, 21st and I'm going to speak…

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CFMX 7 Developer Certification, Part II

by marcus on 28/07/2005

The operator "AND" returns true if both expressions are true.
So, to prove that our BIB-Headline, which says that kk AND mr are two advanced certified CF developers, is true, I also needed to take the CFMX Developer Test again (and besides, I had to pass it to keep my CF-Instructor title).

Well, I reached 88% (advanced), mainly because I simply did not remember the syntax of... err... no, I'm not allowed to tell you. ;)

CFMX 7 Developer Certification

by kai on 26/07/2005

Jippie, just passed the CFMX 7 Developer Certification with 92%. This means I passed on the Advanced level again.

While preparing, I wondered how the new exam with all the new CF7 stuff would be like. Well, too bad one is not to talk about the content and the questions after doing the exam, but let's say from my point of view the exam became more "appropriate" to what I expect from a test like this one, whatever that might mean ;-)

Optimus Keyboard

by marcus on 18/07/2005

Now, if THAT's not a keyboard...
Each key of the Optimus Keyboard contains an independent TFT-Display instead of a classic sticker ;-)

Apart from the fact that it it looks cool and can impress your neighbour(s), it might become your perfect buddy when being forced to edit multilanguage content in a CMS...

http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus

Google pagerank explained

by kai on 06/07/2005

Via codenamebeefy: Google pagerank explained... very nice work with all the detailled math explaining different situations.

AgentM on ColdFusion performance guidelines: URL

by marcus on 05/07/2005

Here's the URL for today's Breezo:
http://www.msg-webkonferenz.de/r78162109

If you attended my last presentation on CF performance, you'll notice that I have some new topics - well, not too many, because hints that were good yesterday are mostly still correct today.

Hopefully, there will be no server crash like last time ;)

See you at 4 o'clock...

UPDATE:
If you missed the talk, here's the URL of the recorded version:

http://www.msg-webkonferenz.de/p58004826

ZIP- and data type converter CFC

by kai on 05/07/2005

Arthur Kordowski put two new CFCs online. The first one is an abstracted zip-API which is basically leveraging Java's zip functionality for CF.

The other one is about data type conversion and allows you to transfer CF data types without flaws.

Both are available on Arthur's site ("My tools" in the right-hand menu) and are very well documented etc. Have a look, it's worth it!

AgentM on ColdFusion performance guidelines

by kai on 04/07/2005

Tomorrow afternoon German time, there will be another Breezo of the msg-talks series. AgentM is going to present on "ColdFusion performance guidelines" and I guess it will be about how to avoid bottlenecks in apps, best practices in development your applications etc. Registration is available and is very appreciated. Slides will be in English, the session itself will be held in English as soon as…

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