I’ve got a linux box running at an ISP for my testing, lab and fun projects. After receiving the Flex non-commercial license several days ago I installed it over the weekend and – be surprised or not – it went quite smoothly. As I never installed it on Linux before, I’m very happy about that [...]

Just some days ago Macromedia announced Samsung taking over the Flash Lite 1.1 technology for their mobile handsets. That’s good news for people being interested in developing Flash Lite apps for cellphones and it will be interesting to observe if – and which – other companys will follow.
Well, Samsung isn’t the top mobile brand – [...]

Yoohoo, I got my Flex non-commercial license finally. It has been in the mail already yesterday but I wasn’t at home when UPS tried to deliver it. So it arrived today in the office where I will pick it up later that week as was there today and won’t be in there tomorrow. I already [...]

This is going to be the month of the weird ideas After writing all the stuff on product selection and recommendation, I’m now thinking about parsing form input with a LL(k)-parser (generated by JavaCC for example) to notice if people try to fill code into a form instead of “text content”. The idea [...]

Finally, here’s a .zip-file containing the components, example files with CFC method calls and a MySQL-database script.
Download recommendation0_1.zip
Further explanation and documentation is in the extended entry.The database consists of five tables:
cart:
CAR_ID is the PK
CAR_CUS_ID is a FK and refers to a customer
customer:
CUS_ID is the customer ID and PK
CUS_NAME is the name of the customer
product:
PRO_ID as [...]

This is awesome, I just got an email from Geoff Bowers sending around a bunch of Flash banners for MXDU 2005. This year the theme is all about superheros – seems that “The incredibles” are in the cinemas in Australia already and that they’re going to take a short break Feb 17-18 to visit the [...]

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 [...]