Cabir worm pretends to be Flash Lite...

by kai on 10/01/2005

If you own a Symbian cellphone and if you're interested in Macromedias Flash Lite player, watch out! There is a .SIS-file around (the Symbian installer format) which pretends to be the Flash Lite player but which contains the Cabir worm for Symbian... This is ugly, so be careful. Obviously Macromedia don't ship that worm in their Flash Lite player. More information on it on f-secure.com:…

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Product Recommendation II

by kai on 06/01/2005

Jim commented my entry on product recommendation that he'd like to get some more details about the "mystic math" behind the approach. Ok, I'll do my best to deliver it a little bit more in depth...meanwhile the CFC are done also and I'll post them in one of the next entries tomorrow.So, let's assume a very basic setting. We run an online store with 3 products and we have 3 customers for now. Not…

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Flashinthecan 2005: I'll be there!

by kai on 03/01/2005

Flashinthecan 2004 in Toronto was a great conference, so I'm very happy that I've been selected to present at this year's conference in early April. Toronto is a great city and with FITC being a "creative" and "designer" conference, you'd end up with a totally different group of people over there (at least from my personal point of view as a "server guy" ;) and that provides a lot of…

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Product recommendation

by kai on 03/01/2005

During the holidays I read an interesting article on product recommendation systems for online shops. To be more precise, it was on the theory behind the algorithms and approaches used to filter the product set of an online shop to show the customer the products which might be worth having another look. If you ever bought something from Amazon, you know what I'm talking about...;) Well, finally I…

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Autism Quotient and computer science

by kai on 25/10/2004

This is an interesting one. Prof. Gunter Dueck, an IBM Distinguished Engineer, is publishing his personal scientific thoughts on the IT world regularly in the German Informatik Spektrum. The latter is a magazine (six issues per year) which is published by the German Society of Computer Science (GI) for its members, which I'm a member of. It's really worth to have a look on his articles, I don't…

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iX international - pilot issue

by kai on 25/10/2004

iX, a German IT magazine which I publish articles in regularly, is available in an international version now. The pilot issue 0 is online for free on their web server

The editors appreciate all interested people to download issue 0 and answer some questions on the feedback form. Sadly there isn't one of my articles in the international pilot...;)

But give it a try, it's really worth reading!

List of free XML tools...

by kai on 17/10/2004

Just found this list of free XML tools via the goog and resolve. Worth a detailled look if you're dealing with XML...!

MXDU 2005: ready to go!

by kai on 17/10/2004

MXDU 2005, we're ready to go. I'm so bloody looking forward to travel down under again in 2005. Today I got the confirmation for one of my proposed sessions. I'm going to speak on "ColdFusion Scalability", which was and still is one of my core fields of work over the last months. But - that's just the brilliant add-on as Diane and I would have taken the trip anyhow to visit and meet all our…

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TheBat! 3.01 released

by marcus on 16/10/2004

Yes folks, the third version of earth's best email client is released. If you want email without the hassle, give it a try! Personally, I'm managing seven Accounts in TB, 70000+ Mails and growing. There are several reasons why I'm totally satisfied with it: -It never crashed since install -It's heavily protected against Viruses and Worms -Built-in anti-spam filter -It has several neat features…

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Intro is online...

by kai on 15/10/2004

Macromedia put their Intro application online during the last days. It's a great Rich Internet Application (maybe that's one of the best ideas for a RIA I've ever seen) which allows to enter personal details, interests, skills etc. and find other people who share your interest as much as possible. Their graphical representation of the people's connection is superb, it's all very visual and…

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