I MIGHT be there…

by kai 01/03/2007

I missed last year’s Soccer World Cup in Germany and I could bite my arse for doing so. But to be fair, it’s hard to get all this stuff done and organised when you’ve just moved to the other end of the world etc. But – this is not going to happen again – in […]

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Launching NZFXUG – New Zealand Flex User Group

by kai 01/03/2007

drumsticks… We’re proud to present the New Zealand Flex User Group. Our site has gone live just right now – there’s not a lot content but that will change during the next few days. This User Group was founded by Campbell Anderson, Ross Phillips and myself and it should become the first point of contact […]

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I hate computers

by kai 20/02/2007

…at least sometimes. Today was one of THOSE days… 1. While I was talking via Skype with someone I work with pretty closely on a cool CF/Flex project, we started to get connection drops and finally my laptop was getting slower and slower and Windows totally froze. Well, it’s Windows after all – but that […]

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The Jedi is coming…

by kai 15/02/2007

David Harris has done a great job convincing Ray Camden to spend his night giving a live presentation to the CFUG Auckland (via Adobe Connect) on how to use Spry together with ColdFusion. Date and time: 01/03/2007, 5:45 pm NZ DST @ Straker HQ in Auckland (Straker Interactive Ltd, Suite 5B Cathedral House, 48-52 Wyndham […]

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Flex transparency in HTML pages

by kai 15/02/2007

Just in case there are some more Flex developers out there who haven’t spent the last 5+ yrs coding Flash apps ;)… To get a fill transparency of your Flex app sitting in an HTML page, backgroundAlpha is not enough. You also need to set the wmode attribute of the object/embed tag you’re using to […]

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Flex 2 Rich Text Editors (grrr…)

by kai 13/02/2007

In one of my current Flex projects we need to capture formatted user input that has to be displayed in the Flex application. Well, as you might know the Flash Player is somewhat limited in its HTML capabilities, so it turned out to be some sort of an interesting situation to find a rich text […]

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Flex Data Services on OSX

by kai 12/02/2007

Earlier today I was having a chat with Toby about how to install Flex Data Services on (officially not supported) Mac OSX. Well – with not owning a Mac myself but knowing that CF runs fine on top of JRun on Mac OSX – I immediately thought of a similar solution: Why not grabbing an […]

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Mike Downey @ DEMO 2007

by kai 08/02/2007

Mike Downey presented Apollo at the DEMO 2007 conference. Here’s a video recording: http://www.demo.com/demonstrators/demo2007/91259.php. Very interesting to watch.

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Bruce Eckel on Flex

by kai 07/02/2007

I’ve just came across a recent blog post of Bruce Eckel (he is the guy who wrote the famous Java book “Thinking in Java”) on Rich Client Technologies. It is a very good read – not just because he says good things about Flex. It’s a very good read in particular because he is totally […]

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Ramping up my dev environment

by kai 05/02/2007

I really rather not touch my development environment unless it’s really necessary. Yesterday it was necessary: the CFEclipse team has released CFEclipse 1.3 final (which I really, really, really recommend to each single CF developer – I can’t imagine going back to Homesite or even Dreamweaver), Adobe has released Flex Builder 2.0.1 earlier this year […]

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