Following Sean Corfield’s post about Pope John Paul II…
I just learned that the new pope is a German – after ca. 480 years of absence from providing the head of the Catholic Church.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, which was used to be his name in the real and legal life up to now, is expected to follow [...]

On Tuesday May, 3rd my employer is going to start the new series of “msg talks”, Breeze live sessions on certain technology topics around the Macromedia/Adobe technology family (did I mention that I really like Photoshop? Framemaker was always just awesome when I used it in university for writing).
Nevertheless…;) On May, 3rd, I’m up to [...]

A lot of people blogged about that one already. Adobe is going to take over Macromedia later this year.
Bascially: so what? There has to be a consolidation in the tools business, be honest, why not put together the best product of each company? Who really uses GoLive!, why not discontinue it due to the success [...]

If you ever asked yourself how to internationalize or globalize your ColdFusion apps (i18n or g11n), have a look at Jason Sheedy’s ColdFusion Resource Bundle Manager. Resource Bundles are the defacto standard to fulfill those tasks in Java applications and FarCry makes use of RBs very intensively. Jason’s code is a great way to get [...]

Finally I packed my code of the two related CFSELECTs into a more flexible and maintainable custom tag. Feel free to download it, play with it or extend it, basically do whatever you want with it Any comments, feedback, requests etc. very welcome.
Here’s a zip file containing the customtag, a testpage and [...]

Sometimes, I’m really sick of the way how retail companies in Germany try to fool their customers. Brand-new example: I’m going to buy a new laptop. After a long decision process, I’m going to get myself a Toshiba M30X-167.
I found this one with a small retailer in Duesseldorf for the price of 1399 Euro. [...]

I was asked to spread the word about this:
The EMCDDA (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction), one of the European Union?s decentralised agencies, is currently looking for a web developer with a strong experience in ColdFusion. The EMCDDA is based in Lisbon and from my very own experience I can assure you [...]