openlaszlo...

by kai on 06/10/2004

Laszlo systems announced that their rich internet server LPS is going to be open source from now on. As they announced it on October, 4th, it's interesting to notice how things might be connected with the non-commercial license of Flex. A lot of people blogged about this over the last two days already, so I don't want to dig into details. Let me just note that - not concerning Laszlos motivation…

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Flex Non-Commercial License

by kai on 05/10/2004

This is great! Macromedia finally did it and just announced a Flex Non-Commercial/Non-institutional deployment license! Quick highlights: - if you intend to use Flex in a non-commercial and non-institutional manner like for educational purposes, community web pages, weblogs, students at schools and universities - you might qualify for this license - you'll get a package of software which you are…

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MX Magazin 6

by kai on 05/10/2004

October 6th is going to be the release date of Germanys MX Magazin no. 6. This one will be the last one with Stefan D'Amore as publisher and editor in chief. With the next issue, MX Magazin is published by the Software & Support Verlag and Stefan will be in a counselling role from then on. I'd just want to take the chance to thank Stefan for his work to establish this baby from the scratch in…

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Agent M on CF performance tuning

by kai on 05/10/2004

Yesterday Marcus gave a session on CF performance tuning. If you missed it - or got dropped out near the end due some technical issues, here's the preso as a Flashpaper:





A PDF file is available here

One more day for the CF_Underground VI Early Bird registration

by kai on 29/09/2004

Take one of the last chances to register yourself for CF_Underground VI for just 69 US$. This early bird rate is just valid until tomorrow, after tomorrow the rate increases to 99 US$. The conference will be on October, 31st 2004 - the day before the MAX 2004 pre-conference day. Location is the Pan American Conference Center, 601 Poydras Street in New Orleans. The map makes me guess that it…

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A special for Alex...

by kai on 29/09/2004

Couldn't resist... Alex is a pug lover ;) and as I watched the most recent series of German "Popstars" tonight I found this. It's a photography of my TV screen captured with the cam of my cell phone. This quiz question to win is:

What type of dog is this?

a) St Bernard
b) pug

Alex, do you know the answer? I expect a post about the differences between pugs and St Bernards in your blog for tonight or tomorrow.

Do you need a job in the Munich area?

by kai on 28/09/2004

A friend of mine working for a MM-related web development company asked me to post this. They are looking for an experienced and well-performing web developer for highend and complex CF and J2EE projects. They'd like to hire someone permanently and are located in the near Munich area. I post this at this place because they don't care from where you come from, but very good Englisch language…

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New Orleans, we're coming

by kai on 27/09/2004

As I posted already for several occasions, I'm going to visit MAX 2004 in New Orleans in early November. New is: my wife joins me for the trip to do some sightseeing around New Orleans and my weird colleague Alex - the crazy guy who's blogging on www.codenamebeefy.de - will also be there. His plans are a little bit different: stay in New Orleans until Nov, 4, take a car and drive along the gulf…

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Breezo: ColdFusion Performance Tuning

by kai on 24/09/2004

The famous Agent M of Blog in Black ;) (aka Marcus Raphelt) is going to host a Breeze talk on ColdFusion Application Performance Tuning on Oktober, 4th 2004. Start is at 4 p.m. German time, that should be 10 a.m. on Americas east coast, 7 a.m. west coast and something around midnight in Australia (sorry folks...) The talk itself will be in a mix of German and English, depending on how many people…

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Certified Flex Instructor

by kai on 24/09/2004

I'm a Macromedia Certified Flex Instructor now. After working with the class materials - by the way: the class is called "Developing Rich Internet Applications with Macromedia Flex" and it's a 3-day class - I'm very happy with it. It's a great course and it will give the students a brilliant introduction into Flex development models. Want to take a class with me? I'm still trying to separate this…

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