A story of the past

by kai 03/07/2007

I was inspired to write this entry while reading Agent M’s post about his new endeavours in starting his own company in Germany together with Bernd. It’s a post about the past, basically about how M and K met, worked together and about the company we used to work for. I’ve started doing CF in […]

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Travel mashup raffle

by kai 03/07/2007

And now – as a reward for those who read my last post, a small competition with a nice price to win: A Total Training DVD “Total Training for Adobe Flex 2” hosted by James Talbot How to get it? The first person to send me an email to kai (at) thisdomainhere answering correctly the […]

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Air NZ: Google maps mashup

by kai 03/07/2007

Air NZ recently seem to work with a few people who know what they’re doing. After releasing their nice “How far can you go?” RIA, I’ve just found a (beware of hype terminology 🙂 mashup using Google maps on their website. Sadly I can’t link to it, as I’d have to provide you with my […]

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Independence Day

by marcus 02/07/2007

What might make a person quit its job and become self-employed? Sometimes, there are opportunities that you just can’t ignore… To make it short: starting on the 4th of July, Bernd Mühlenbeck, a msg coworker , and me will launch at.net websolutions Yes, the name is a mash-up of the names of the companies we […]

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JSON and CF 7

by kai 28/06/2007

This one is more a personal bookmark for myself, but it might be interesting for others as well. Chris just asked about JSON support in CF on the CFUGNewZealand list and I’ve recommended using CFJSON, which I’m pretty happy with. While looking for the link I found Ben Nadel’s posts about his own, modified version […]

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Air NZ “How far can I go”: Innovative RIA!

by kai 26/06/2007

After bitching about the poor online booking facilities of House of Travel, Flightcentre and STA Travel NZ yesterday, I’m happy to show you a cool, innovative and rich sales support tool by Air New Zealand: “How far can I go?” It’s easy to use and motivates potential customers to book a flight for a vacation […]

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Some interesting facts about…

by kai 25/06/2007

…porn! Michael from e-commerce-blog.de posted this one the other day (he’s surfing on the “I blog about ‘your porn’” wave to get traffic :). Awesome video – would you believe me that you’re actually learning a few things? Yes, I know, I’m using the fact that this is actually a hot chick – before you […]

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Travel sites in New Zealand

by kai 25/06/2007

The other day Ashley McKee was writing about hotwire.com, a travel site that – well… – didn’t get the concept of multi-city flight bookings quite right. Bascially they’re offering the option and then forward their customers to expedia.com – why would you do that? To show you that hotwire.com is not even at the lower […]

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IIS shutdown on Windows

by kai 25/06/2007

One of my clients’ production CF servers went down during the weekend. When investigating the issue this morning, we actually found that it was not ColdFusion itself that crashed, but IIS – symptoms: “Service unavailable” pages when you were requesting any type of page from the server. The event logs listed the following: A process […]

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flashplayermobile.com?

by kai 24/06/2007

Has anyone seen flashplayermobile.com yet? It seems to be a stand-alone .swf player for Pocket PC – but based on the official ActiveX control from Macromedia/Adobe?

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