Events

New Orleans, we’re coming

by kai 27/09/2004

As I posted already for several occasions, I’m going to visit MAX 2004 in New Orleans in early November. New is: my wife joins me for the trip to do some sightseeing around New Orleans and my weird colleague Alex – the crazy guy who’s blogging on www.codenamebeefy.de – will also be there. His plans […]

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Airport chaos

by kai 24/09/2004

During the last days I was on the road to deliver a ACFD class at a customer in Hamburg and after that I went down to Zurich and Munich to speak about Flex during the LogOn InfoDays Java. Fine so far, the audience seemed to be really interested in the technology and I got the […]

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Richard Stallman on software patents

by kai 24/09/2004

Maybe someone is interested in this: On Sep 28, 2004, Richard Stallmann is visiting the University of Essen (central in Germanys wonderful Rhine-Ruhr-Area) to talk about software patents: The agenda for the night is: 17:30 – 18:15 Uhr The impact of software patents on the IT world (Dr. Peter Gerwinski) 18:15 – 19:00 Uhr The […]

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone I

by kai 08/09/2004

Today Ben Forta speaks about Blackstone over here in Cologne, Germany. This entry is updated regularly during his session… – An interesting observation: over 50% of the attendants are using CF MX or higher already. There were just one or two people just running on CF 4.something. – Did you know that CF was backwards […]

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone II

by kai 08/09/2004

Let me just express that I’m deeply impressed by the travel of Oğuz Demirkapı, User Group Manager of CFUG Turkey who travelled over to Cologne for seeing Ben speaking about Blackstone. That’s what I call a CF_GROUPIE 😉

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone III

by kai 08/09/2004

Continuing with the form stuff: – Since CF 2 the product provided nice tags like CFTREE, CFGRID etc. which had been realised as Java applets with all the pros and cons of that technology. – Blackstone solution: The approach is using the Flash technology as a frontend. That means for example that CFGRID received a […]

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone IV

by kai 08/09/2004

After cake, sweets, fruits and tons of coffee… – Printing and Reporting: always a mess to define proper print output and to define reporting formats. – Blackstone solution: * CFDOCUMENT with attribute format=”pdf” creates a pdf file. * Embedding CFLOOP in a CFDOCUMENT wrapper works, also with dynamic data inside * CFDOCUMENTITEM with type=”header” or […]

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone V

by kai 08/09/2004

Some more information on printing and stuff… – For creating reports, MM provides a Tool called ColdFusion Report Builder, some sort of visual tool to define the layout of a to become generated report from query fields or other data. This tool creates so called .crf files which are necessary to use CFREPORT. Included is […]

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone VI

by kai 08/09/2004

– Multiple Instances: For most of the people it was a mess to setup CF with multiple instances on one machine. There is a instance manager now which allows to duplicate complete CF installations. Also, the nasty issue with the replication of CFC instances in the session scope (they didn’t replicate) will be fixed…;) – […]

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MXDU 2005

by kai 07/09/2004

MXDU – the best and most fun Macromedia-related developers conference of the world – will happen again in 2005 as Geoff Bowers sent around emails last weekend using the mxdu-ann mailing list. The dates are Feb 17th and 18th 2005 and the venue is Sydneys Star City hotel and casino complex again. On Feb 16th […]

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