The other day I’ve blogged about my struggle to find a well suited email client for Mac OS X.
I’ve decided to give Mail.app another try, but I was heavily disappointed. Although the client is nice it just didn’t work properly to import my huge mailbox files and it took literally minutes to render particular folder [...]

When we’ve moved to New Zealand in 2005, the amount of luggage/stuff we were taking was limited. At that time, I owned a pretty fancy HP Laserjet 13something printer I was really happy with – due to luggage restrictions, I’ve some sort of parked it with my father-in-law who didn’t mind
I bought a [...]

Map24 used to be the leader of the pack when it came to online mapping technologies and routing when I was living back in Germany. Today I found (pretty much by accident) that they have a new Developer Network and an AJAX API for their maps and that they’re also available pretty much world-wide. Their [...]

One of the reasons why I’ve been a bit quieter during the last 2-3 weeks is that I’m migrating my work environment from PC to Mac and this is a bit of work because besides playing with my new toy (2.4 GHz MBP, 4 GB RAM) I have to continue being at least a bit [...]

One of my clients is looking for THREE web developers at the wonderful Sunshine Coast of Australia. You should have knowledge in ColdFusion and Java on the backend side of things, if you’ve got exposure to Flex- or Flash-based Rich Client development – even better.
The job description is available online, have a look!
You would [...]

Finally, it has been scientifically proven that Blog in Black is saving energy and by that stopping the climate change. Diane pointed me to this post on EcoIron today… I’m proud that our background color is helping to make the world a better place and that all our readers accept this when it comes to [...]

Also – I’ve presented about Cairngorm (from a 30,000 ft point of view) at our last Flex User Group meeting. Sadly, the Breeze recording didn’t work that night.
But finally – here are the slides as pdf.
The example code I’ve used for the demonstration and to show different elements of a Cairngorm application could be found [...]