Anyone else: java.lang.IllegalStateException: corrupt table in CF 8?

by kai 06/08/2007

Someone I work with together is currently experiencing a very weird issue. They developed a few new features for their site and the development machine was on CF 8 for quite a while. Everything worked fine, no issues at all. Today, they’ve upgraded the production environment, deployed the new parts of the application and suddenly […]

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Adobe MAX 2007 – Director 11 and Chicago Blog

by kai 03/08/2007

Two worthwhile facts about Adobe MAX 2007… 1. Director is NOT dead – there will be a Director 11 and Adobe will talk about it at MAX 2007. Even with me not using Director currently and regularly at this stage, I’ve really enjoyed it in former times with Director MX 🙂 And don’t forget that […]

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Solved: good email client for OS X – PowerMail

by kai 30/07/2007

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 […]

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HP Laserjet 1020 on OS X

by kai 27/07/2007

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 […]

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Map24 for AU and NZ

by kai 26/07/2007

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 […]

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Wanted: A good email client for OS X

by kai 25/07/2007

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 […]

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Job: Web developers at Sunshine Coast

by kai 25/07/2007

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 […]

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BIB saves energy

by kai 24/07/2007

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 […]

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FXUG Cairngorm talk

by kai 07/07/2007

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 […]

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NZ CFUG talk slides, recording and files

by kai 07/07/2007

I’ve presented about different ways to deal with application configuration at the last NZ CFUG meeting. David Harris has published the recording, the slides are below, and I’ve also uploaded the example code. Download the pdf or read it online below:

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