Sigh… just recently I’ve learned about another organisation not seeing the reality of social sites actually being useful. The story is a quick one – I’ve invited someone I know to dopplr. In case you don’t know it – it’s a site for (business) travellers to keep track of where your colleagues, friends etc. are, [...]

…about my opinion on the open-sourcing of Blue Dragon that has been announced a few weeks ago. To be honest: I do like it and I truely and honestly hope that they will manage to form a community around the open-source version of their product.
Lots of people discussed the topic and it’s meaningfulness for Adobe, [...]

Not sure if everybody out there came across that one yet. Adobe has published an ActionScript 3 Reference Guide booklet. Very nice and handy, pdf is available on Developer Center – the printed version will be distributed on various events in the future.

Some people might remember that I’ve started my aviation “career” a bit more than one year back from now. Well, at some point in early March 2007 I’ve done a trial flight at the local Aero Club down at Wellington International. Last July I started my training towards the New Zealand PPL to become a [...]

Currently it appears is a lot of ColdFusion work available up in Auckland. A friend of mine, Liam Donaldson, is looking for a developer to work on his site bookabach.co.nz which has just recently been acquired by the AA – The job ad is stiill online. Liam is a great guy to work with, if [...]

A few weeks back in February, Webstock 08 was on in Wellington. Webstock is a pretty much technology-independent web conference and some sort of a big event here in New Zealand. I’ve attended a few sessions (thanks to Mark Blair who had his ticket transferred to me as he couldn’t attend) and it was pretty [...]

Starting today, Adobe offers a range of online seminars as part of the Adobe developer week. Topics cover all sort of things, from CF via AIR and Flex to PDF integration and CS3.
The sessions are during the day US Pacific time, which makes at least some of them feasible to tune into for us [...]