Foto Feb: day 2

by kai on 02/02/2012

Cutie...

This is quite possibly the cutest and most friendly dog I've come across for a long time. 9 months old female Staffordshire Bull Terrier puppy and the dog-in-residence at Sydney-based client.

Moving the Adobe Connect content storage

by kai on 02/02/2012

You've installed a licensed (=self-hosted) version of Adobe Connect 7 or 8 and all of a sudden you have realised that you really need to move the content storage to a different area of the server because your C: drive is running out of space? A few weeks ago a client asked me how to do exactly this. Given how easy it is, it's surprisingly badly documented and hard to find. Here you go: Stop the…

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Foto Feb: day 1

by kai on 01/02/2012

Yeah, I'm doing Foto Feb. If you want to know what it is - check Diane's blog. Or Nick's blog. Or both. Here's day 1.

Snow globes


The person who's desk I'm currently occupying at my client in Sydney is kind of a snow globe fan. That's not even all of them :)

Rooting Google Nexus One on Android GRK39F build

by kai on 25/01/2012

The other day I needed to change the hosts file on my Google Nexus One (to actually point a domain name to a local dev environment so that I could test some mobile web application development I've been doing). I needed root access to do that and I ended up realising that I had lost root access (even after I manually hacked my way from the Vodafone 2.1 build to Android 2.2 when I got the device)…

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Printing from Wine on OS X

by kai on 15/01/2012

The flight planning software I use is Windows-based and unfortunately Windows-only. It's a really powerful tool and there's nothing comparable for OS X (at least not for Australia and New Zealand), so I'm happy to go the extra mile making it work. The easiest way would obviously be to install the software in a virtual machine and to run just Windows in such a VM with VMWare Fusion or Parallels.…

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Why would anyone travel from New Zealand to Kansas City, MO? D2WC!

by kai on 08/01/2012

The short answer is: for D2WC 2012. Let me briefly explain: D2WC is a conference about and for designers, developers, hybrid and the famous designer-developer workflow. It will go into its third iteration in 2012 and after Dee Sadler was originally trying to get me involved with the event already in 2010, I finally went in 2011 and had a great time over there (you can find my 2011 talk on…

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Getting into Clojure (and other stuff)

by kai on 07/01/2012

With the recent changes at Adobe I was more and more thinking that I need to further diversify what I'm doing. That was already happening in 2010 and 2011 quite a lot - client demand for Flash and Flex solutions decreased (and still is decreasing) and we found ourselves doing more and more Javascript-based applications. Quite often those would include jQuery or other frameworks, more recently…

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CFML update for IntelliJ IDEA 11

by kai on 01/01/2012

The awesome people at Jetbrains (in particular Kirill is to be mentioned here) have made an BER (bleeding edge release) update of the CFML plugin in IntelliJ IDEA 11 available. In case you didn't know - IntelliJ IDEA is an excellent IDE, quite heavily used by Java and Groovy developers. IntelliJ IDEA has a CFML plugin for a few versions now and it got quite a few enhancements with the recent…

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ColdFusion Builder 2 Hot fix - be aware that you need a JRE

by kai on 01/01/2012

This was sitting in my inbox for quite a while.  When the ColdFusion team released hot fix 1 for ColdFusion Builder 2, some people reported problems applying the hotfix ending up with an error message claiming that there was no Java Runtime Environment installed. At first glance, it might make you wonder because if you're about to apply a ColdFusion Builder 2 hot fix, one would expect ColdFusion…

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ColdFusion "null, null" errors - CFInterface another possible reason

by kai on 24/12/2011

Just recently I was hunting a "null, null" error in a large ColdFusion application. It started occurring all of a sudden under decent load and it was unfortunately rather hard to reproduce. Some basics: If you're getting a "null, null" error in ColdFusion (and yes, this still does occur in ColdFusion 8 and 9 occasionally, even though there was a certain known issue in CFMX 6/6.1 that was fixed…

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