Agent K and the rest of the world

Do you need a job in the Munich area?

by kai 28/09/2004

A friend of mine working for a MM-related web development company asked me to post this. They are looking for an experienced and well-performing web developer for highend and complex CF and J2EE projects. They’d like to hire someone permanently and are located in the near Munich area. I post this at this place because […]

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German MX Magazin got a new publisher

by kai 20/09/2004

The wonderful and best-ever German MX Magazin got a new publisher. Stefan D’Amores publication will be published by the Software & Support Verlag, which already owns seven German mags around the IT and developers world dealing with different languages and technologies from .NET over Java up to PHP. Stefan stays in the editorial team for […]

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T-Mobile and Flash Lite – it’s there!

by kai 17/09/2004

T-Mobile UK started a news push service called News Express. The interesting fact about that is that it’s based on the FlashLite player for Symbian cell phones like the Nokia 3650, 7610, 6600 etc or some other Symbian based devices. So, the software for News Express itself is free of charge, you’d have to pay […]

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Finally – an educational license of Studio MX 2004 in Germany

by kai 15/09/2004

Macromedia announced that they will provide an educational version of Studio MX 2004 for teachers, school kids, students and professors in Germany now. There had been educational sales already over here, but the price of 99 Euros for a complete non-commercial Studio MX 2004 license is great. More information: http://www.macromedia.com/de/resources/student/studio/ Good work guys, now you […]

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Looking for certification exam beta testers

by kai 02/09/2004

The certification team of Macromedia is looking for beta testers for the new upcoming Flash MX 2004 Designer Exam. If you’re interested, you could register here and also leave your details for other beta exams. If you’re selected to join the beta, you’ll get a 40% off discount voucher for any Macromedia certification exam.

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Macromedia goes iPOD

by kai 16/08/2004

Christian Cantrell and Mike Chambers created Take-Away, a collection of mp3 audio files containing the latest Macromedia community news aggregated by MXNA. The nice feature is: I could try to convice the tax authority to accept my iPOD as a tax expense, because I use it for work now 😉 Take-Away allows you to download […]

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Adaption of Webservices and SOAs

by kai 29/07/2004

Yesterday I read an interesting article in a german IT business publication. OIt was about the customers adaption of different web technologies which should end up in a so called Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Core of the article was a table regarding web standards and to-become-standards, how mature they are and how they are used […]

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Eclipse 3.0 final and it’s impact on MM-related plugins

by kai 18/07/2004

End of June the Eclipse project released 3.0 final. This entry is about possible impacts on Macromedia-related plugins for Eclipse. The first look is on CFEclipse: The team release a 1.1.14 release some days ago which seems to be perfectly compatible to the 3.0 release of the workbench. Related to that and recommended is to […]

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Study on rich internet applications

by kai 16/06/2004

I finally got the mark for my masters thesis in computer science (some of you might know that I’m doing my masters studies besides my daily work): got a 1.3 (for the non-Germans – on a scale beginning with 1.0 being the best one and ending up with 4.0 or “failed”). So – got a […]

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MX Magazin: subscribe now!

by kai 14/06/2004

– English – A very special offer for visitors of Blog in Black: MX Magazin – the best and most important Macromedia-related publication in the German magazine market is providing a special offer – get a subscription for 29,90 Euros per year via BIB instead of 39,90 Euros per year for getting a regular subscription. […]

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