Maybe someone is interested in this:
On Sep 28, 2004, Richard Stallmann is visiting the University of Essen (central in Germanys wonderful Rhine-Ruhr-Area) to talk about software patents:
The agenda for the night is:
17:30 – 18:15 Uhr
The impact of software patents on the IT world
(Dr. Peter Gerwinski)
18:15 – 19:00 Uhr
The Danger of Software Patents
(Richard Stallman, GNU-Projekt – [...]

Macromedia recently released two security warnings regarding CF and JRun. Running them in combination with Microsofts IIS using the IIS connector it might be possible to view and spy the source code of not Macromedia related third party files:
Description and patch files for CFMX:
MPSB04-09 – Cumulative Security Patch available for ColdFusion MX
Description and patch [...]

Codename “Beefy” is a new blog in the German somehow-Macromedia-related weblog family. It’s maintained by Alex Riemer, a totally weird guy who’s working for msg at.NET also. Check it out if you’re able to read German…

The wonderful and best-ever German MX Magazin got a new publisher. Stefan D’Amores publication will be published by the Software & Support Verlag, which already owns seven German mags around the IT and developers world dealing with different languages and technologies from .NET over Java up to PHP.
Stefan stays in the editorial team for now [...]

Inspired by Geoffs posting “Maximum JVM heap size for CFMX” I’ll played a bit more intense with JVMStat, a tiny tool provided by Sun with the purpose of monitoring your JVM and its garbace collection.
It’s really amazing what it is able to show you about the internal status of your JVM. This is very helpful [...]

T-Mobile UK started a news push service called News Express. The interesting fact about that is that it’s based on the FlashLite player for Symbian cell phones like the Nokia 3650, 7610, 6600 etc or some other Symbian based devices.
So, the software for News Express itself is free of charge, you’d have to pay for [...]

The MAX 2004 birds of a feather session list is online. They’re some sort of informal discussion sessions after the regular conference day. Usually BoF-sessions are very deeply topic-driven and are a quite good chance to discuss with experts, MM people/developers etc.