Mysterious series of expired CF licenses ;)

The first case of the mysterious license expiration happend about six week ago and was revealed by the genius of Detective Superintendant Dirk Eismann. He noticed that the ColdFusion 7 license of a very famous person in the Macromedia-sphere was just expired. Read more about this case in Dirk Eismanns online case files.
Now it happened [...]

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Birthday presents of an average surfin’ marketing consultant

My co-worker Michael who is hooked into the marketing recently blogged about all the virtual birthday gifts he received for his last birthday. He received a lot of vouchers (Amazon UK and US – nothing from the greedy German branch), Payback (the German fly buys), foto development companies, cellphone operators etc… At all – most [...]

Flash development using open source technology

Last week I was pointed to an interesting article on open source tools for Flash development. It’s by Carlos Rovira and it’s title is Towards Open Source Flash Development. Strongly recommended to read!

Home computers in the year 2004

Did you ever wonder how computers might look like in 2054?
Well, some scientists built a model in 1954 to show how they might look like in 2004.
Prognosis
Err… slightly missed by a mile
Everything you need! Force-Feedback steering wheel, flying b/w tv, lots of meters to impress your friends…

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MXDU 2005: Finally, the pics

Folks, we’re back in Germany now for 4 days and I’m still suffering from early wake ups (between 1:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.), “give-me-food-attacks” on very uncommon occasions and times – but finally I managed to put a collection of MXDU-related pics online.
Here are the links:
Conference pics
Experience Sean Corfield, Jesse Warden, Mike Chambers and a [...]

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German CEBIT 2005 to start tomorrow – 2 free tickets to giveaway

Tomorrow the huge German CEBIT in Hannover is going to open it’s doors for exhibitors and visitors. Macromedia Germany / Europe decided not to have their own stand this year which I personally really regret because imho they have had great success with it during the last years.
Nevertheless they’re there. The German Center of Execellence [...]

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Dependent CFSELECTS using CF7’s Flashforms

While playing with the Flashforms in CF 7 yesterday I nearly went mad as it didn’t work easily to have two CFSELECT controls, both published by a particular db query, in which the first allows to select the parent category and the second one displaying a particular set of entries related to the selection of [...]

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