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Back in Edinburgh for Scotch On The Rocks 2014

by kai 31/12/2013

There are those moments when everything just falls into place. Before Xmas and before I got the notification from the CAB at cf.Objective(), one of my submitted sessions was accepted for Scotch On The Rocks 2014. I’m still extremely happy about that as the amount of submissions they got was massive (around ~160, iirc) and given that […]

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Displaying PDF documents/forms from Adobe LiveCycle in the browser

by kai 28/11/2013

Users of Adobe LiveCycle quite regularly interact with PDF documents. Some examples are: Rendering customised documents for print purposes Creating PDF forms for on- and offline use to collect data for further processing Rendering pre-filled PDF forms to send out to customers/users for completion and physical signature etc. In a lot of cases those PDF […]

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How Maths and Computer Science gave me something to do

by kai 04/08/2013

The other day, my friend Sam McEwan published a post “How computer science saved my ass” on his blog. In this post, he explained how he ended up doing computer science and elaborated on both the good and the bad parts of his university (and in general overall schooling) experience. When I read Sam’s blog […]

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And another new episode of the 2DDU podcast

by kai 20/04/2013

Today, Mark and I recorded and published episode number 30 of our 2DDU Podcast with the awesome title “Broken Code, Rayguns, Enterprise Software and an ark”. We were joined by a guest: my friend and web entrepreneur John-Daniel Trask. It was a really good and fun recording. We spoke about a whole lot of different things, starting with […]

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Hgexportfiles – a really useful Mercurial extension

by kai 16/04/2013

The other day I found a really useful extension for Mercurial * on Bitbucket: hgexportfiles * For the ones among you who listen to 2DDU Podcast, the podcast Mark Mandel and I are hosting every few weeks, you might know that Mercurial is that apparently totally unknown, irrelevant and rather obscure distributed version control system […]

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jQuery Mobile workshops in Germany in October 2013

by kai 15/04/2013

While I’m going to be in Germany for CFCamp in October, I’ll be running three instances of my “Developing mobile web applications with jQuery Mobile” workshop in each Frankfurt (October 8, 2013), Cologne (October 10, 2013) and Hamburg (October 17, 2013). The three trainings are being held in cooperation with Heise Events, the event and […]

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IntelliJ 12.1 has been released

by kai 13/04/2013

Recently the Jetbrains team have released IntelliJ 12.1. It’s a free upgrade for owners of IntelliJ 12, therefore it was a no-brainer for me to apply the upgrade – and IntelliJ is my default go-to-IDE anyway. Unfortunately there are no noticeable new features or fixes for the CFML plugin that made it into version 12.1. […]

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And there is also the 2DDU podcast… episode 29 is available now

by kai 06/04/2013

Today, Mark and I recorded episode 29 of the 2DDU podcast. Yeah, I know – we haven’t done anything for the last nearly 4 months and I absolute acknowledge that. Anyway, we’re back. Today’s episode covers a whole list of stuff: Conferences we attended this year (Mark: RubyConf AU, Kai: Webstock) Conferences either of us or both […]

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.NET Framework when installing Railo with IIS

by kai 01/04/2013

The other day I helped a client to install Railo 4 with IIS 7.5 on a Windows server. Their problem was that the Railo installer seemed to have worked fine (as Railo itself worked without any issues on the internal webserver port), but the IIS connection didn’t have to be setup at all. A short […]

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And then there was Webstock 2013 (day 2)

by kai 21/02/2013

Let’s talk about day 2 of Webstock 2013. The first speaker was Karen McGrane. Her session was titled “Adapting Ourselves to Adaptive Content”. Uhhh – you might think, but Karen’s message is much easier than the session title might make you expect. Essentially: It’s just not on to take your print PDF and publish it […]

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