For some reason, I’m really keen on blogging today. One of those days… anyway – after contributing some stuff to ZeroOne’s teamblog theword today, I need to post at least one new entry over here… BTW: Make sure to read my post on Outsourcing to New Zealand
This one is about ‘the flow’. If [...]

You might have noticed that Adobe released an RDS plugin for Eclipse. It’s officially known as a “ColdFusion Extension for Flex Builder 2.0″, but at least the recent version works totally smoothly without Flex Builder 2.0 beta but with CF Eclipse.
As it seems that there was some confusion around it regarding the required (CF)Eclipse version [...]

Some mixed stuff and links that I came across during the last few days:
Good CSS tutorials
Microsoft IE Active Content Update – particularly important for Flash developers
Breezo on IE Update
Flex 1.5 patch for IE update
Nokia Flash Lite Zone
Tons of stuff on labs.adobe.com:
XMP toolkit
Breezo on Flex-Ajax integration
AS 3 libraries
Flex-Ajax integration
Search Engines and Flash
Everything Flex Blog
An interesting discussion [...]

I’ve never heard about JSON until some weeks ago when I was reading an article on web services and data exchange that mentioned JSON. Actually it is a pretty cool mechanism to serialize complex data structures for data exchange or storage purposes.
I hear you saying…”Well, we have that in ColdFusion already, it’s called WDDX”. Right [...]

Finally, we’ve started geocaching. I bought a basic Garmin GPS device (eTrex Legend) last week in Australia and it worked out fine. The other night I was thinking about getting an additional maps, containing more details. I was pretty close to buying a mappack but then I found the New Zealand Open GPS Map Project [...]

The National Bank of New Zealand launched a great web application based on Flash. Well, the application is not rocket science, but the idea is just awesome. The National Bank is one of New Zealand’s full service banks. That said, they offer a wide range of personal or business services. One of them is an [...]

As officially being “design-challenged”, I’m always looking for ways to be able to actually put at least anything online that looks more or less pretty. Usually I try to use some sort of stylesheet templates and tweak them to my needs. A very good approach for that is Aura by Ben Bishop.
Just recently Daemon released [...]