CFUnited 2005 Keynote

by kai 29/06/2005

I just attended the CFUnited keynote. Guys, this was amazing. Ben Forta and Tim Buntel announced a lot of pretty new features and upcoming products/enhancements. Watch out for the next post…

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Overall Band Score 8.0!

by kai 25/06/2005

Yeah! As some of you might know, I was studying English with Wall Street Institute in Germany during the last months to improve my English. For several reasons I decided to take the IELTS exam recently (International English Language Testing System) – you never know what you might need it for ;-)) Today I got […]

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Finding the best setting for simulatenous requests in CF

by kai 15/06/2005

Life is always surprising, ColdFusion as well. If one talks about finding the best or just a good value for the simulatenous requests setting in your ColdFusion server, the recommended approach is to start with a value of 3 to 5 per CPU. Usually this works pretty good, maybe you have to adjust the values […]

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The new style

by kai 09/06/2005

Finally… the new style is online. I couldn’t stand the old look & feel of this blog over the last months. People knowing me are aware of me being design challenged, so I decided to go with a nice template and just reconfigure it to my needs. And here we are, it took me several […]

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CFMX 7 Certified Developer Study Guide

by kai 09/06/2005

Ben Forta just announced that the new release of his CF Certified Developer Study Guide book have been shipped. It should be a very good book and I can’t stress it often enough: even if you don’t intend to take the exam – get the book, it’s a great source of compact CF knowledge to […]

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A CF7 Flash forms double thumb slider

by kai 08/06/2005

I recently built a double thumb slider for CF 7 Flash forms. As there is no Flash forms CFSLIDER tag, I searched the web and found an implementation of an awesome slider, done by Nahuel and Laura of asfusion.com . But I needed a slider with two thumbs, so I took their code and extended/changed […]

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CF7 playground

by kai 08/06/2005

I started my tiny CF7 playground after I found some time to put all this stuff online. If you have a look at http://mx7.bloginblack.de/cf7playground besides the CF_TWOSELECTSRELATEDFF example you’ll find another “component” I built: A double thumb slider for CF 7 Flash forms (more about it in my next post…).

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New version of CF_TWOSELECTSRELATEDFF

by kai 08/06/2005

I created a new version of CF_TWOSELECTSRELATEDFF for ColdFusion MX 7 Flash forms. It includes some minor changes as a better support for using styles within the custom tag. It’s available for download here.

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URL for CF configuration Breezo

by kai 06/06/2005

Here’s the URL for Alex’s presentation on CF configuration guidelines tomorrow: http://www.msg-webkonferenz.de/r93173610/. By the way: This talk will be given in English and the slides will be in English as well. It starts at 4.00 pm German time on Jun 7, 2005, if you need to know the time at your place, use worldtimeserver to […]

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Awesome news: Macromedia joins Eclipse Foundation

by kai 06/06/2005

This is great: Macromedia announced to join the Eclipse foundation and to create a “next-generation rich Internet application development tool,” code-named Zorn, based on Eclipse. The full story including comments and citation of Kevin Lynch is available on news.com. As a first impression from my point of view: awesome news, this is the right move. […]

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