Yesterday evening, a friend of mine asked me if I know how to install ColdFusion 5.0 on a up-to-date openSuse system. After some fiddling around, I indeed found a way to get it running, but let’s start from the beginning:The main problem is: it simply won’t run out of the box because of the following [...]

Just a few days ago I’ve learned that Vodafone Germany has released the version 2.0 of their Handyfinder RIA. I’ve posted various entries on this type of Flash-based Rich Internet Application back in 2003 and 2004 when my employer (msg at.NET) at that time invented and built that tool for Vodafone in Germany the first [...]

Harry Klein asked me if I could mention a job offering that his company is looking to find a candidate for. Contens is looking for a Senior Core Developer for their product, as far as I understand this position would be based in Munich, Germany.
Another interesting position I’ve stumbled across the other day is with [...]

Just got the official word that the Web on the Piste conference in Queenstown goes ahead and really is going to happen in August 2007. The guys from Straker and Gruden have been pushing and organizing the whole thing, awesome stuff!
You might not see the benefits right now while reading this post, but let me [...]

Wow, I had my first flying lesson today. Well, “lesson” is a bit too much maybe. I’m flying with FS 2004 for a few years now and enjoy the aviation world in general very much. I’ve always wanted to get a bit more of closer experience but never got round to.
My wife Diane gave me [...]

Sorry guys, this is going to be a rant about silly digital content protection behaviours on mobile devices.
I one of the earlier post of this year, I’ve talked about the Nokia n93 – my new splendid mobile. I still love that phone, so the rant is not about the phone itself, it’s more about the [...]

I missed last year’s Soccer World Cup in Germany and I could bite my arse for doing so. But to be fair, it’s hard to get all this stuff done and organised when you’ve just moved to the other end of the world etc. But – this is not going to happen again – in [...]