Flex Trace Panel 1.1 + Starter

by kai on 30/06/2004

Some weeks ago Dirk released version 1.1 of his Flex Trace Panel. This morning, I forced him ;-) into delivering a wrapper application so that the panel stays on top of the desktop all the time - which is very helpful during development.

You could download the wrapper here and Dirk posted some instructions around it in his blog.

Ben in Germany...moved to September

by kai on 25/06/2004

I just received an email from Tom Gehring, the Macromedia Partner Manager for Central Europe... Ben won't be able to come over in July, the event has to be moved to September, but read yourself... --- CUT --- Wir haben leider keine guten Nachrichten. Ben Forta kann nicht nach Deutschland kommen, da er aus gesundheitlichen Gründen seine Europa Tournee für den Juli absagen musste. Es tut ihm sehr…

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ColdFusion stack traces

by kai on 23/06/2004

If your CF server got stuck and that there doesn't seem to be an option to find out what's happening inside of the black box - there IS a real possibility in ColdFusion MX. Regarding CFs Java foundation, there is a way to produce Java stack traces in CF. Macromedia provides a technote about how to do it, it's not difficult, you just have to start your CF instance in a certain manner to be able to…

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Howzat!

by kai on 23/06/2004

If you have no idea what the title of this entry is about, then... eh... welcome to Cricket! :-) "Howzat" is short for "How was that?", a shout a player has to use to appeal with an umpire in Cricket for a decision on a not-so-obvious situation. Why I write about that? Well, just because I love that sport. I started loving it during my first Australia visit in 2003, I'm playing myself now for a…

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Macromedia Flex DevTalks

by kai on 22/06/2004

From end of June Macromedia Central Europe offers regulary online meetings for developers via Breeze Live, called Flex DevTalks. The first session will be on June 29th from 11.30 am to 12.15 pm (guys, is that correct? When does pm start? - I'm not used to that time notation :-) and the topic of the first session probably will be an introduction into Flex. The planned presenter is Sven Claar,…

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Win a book!

by kai on 22/06/2004

With the registration application now online, Blog in Black is going to give away a recent Macromedia-related book (no idea yet which title I will provide ;-) .

How to win? Just register and if you're the 15th person who's on the list and who really appears on the event, you're the winner - both conditions have to be true and the book just will be provided on the event - no shipping.

Employees of Blog in Black ;), the company I work for or Macromedia are not allowed to win... sorry!

Ben Forta in Germany - Another update

by kai on 22/06/2004

- English - Another update to Bens Germany visit on July 15th in Cologne. Macromedia provides a registration page for Bens afternoon session now: http://macromedia.daemon.com.au/registration.cfm?id=49032&ref=unkn&lang=de&preview=1 Folks, please register for the afternoon session starting at 2.30 pm with drinks and fingerfood afterwards...! - German - Ein Update zu Bens Deutschland-Trip am 15.…

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Study on rich internet applications

by kai on 16/06/2004

I finally got the mark for my masters thesis in computer science (some of you might know that I'm doing my masters studies besides my daily work): got a 1.3 (for the non-Germans - on a scale beginning with 1.0 being the best one and ending up with 4.0 or "failed"). So - got a quite good day ;-) It's a 222-paged study on the theory and concepts of web-based and rich internet applications on…

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Upcoming architecture stuff

by kai on 16/06/2004

Keep on reading ;) Tomorrow, I'm going to write a short introduction in the MVC pattern and why I consider it to be a so called aggregated pattern. Additionally I decided to release a very simple example for a CF app using some sort of minimum framework following MVC design pattern. Again: be warned, that one won't neither be complete nor perfect. It should just give you a start in moving away…

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Approach to some software engineering terms

by kai on 16/06/2004

To start, I'll try to introduce some terms and to give some hopefully ;) helpful sort-of-definitions of often used terms in software engineering - and of sadly often overused terms... But be careful: All I'm going to write on that topic is strongly influenced by my own point of view in architecting software systems - and be warned, I don't follow the theoretical how-to's always - sometimes there…

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