MAX 2004: New pics online

by kai 02/11/2004

I posted some more pics on my fotki account: New Orleans impressions Community College MAX 2004: Pre-conference night events

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MAX 2004: Pre-conference day

by kai 02/11/2004

Day 0 is over. It started with a nice breakfast in our hotel and a bus transfer over to the conference center. Just this one is unbelievable as the conference center is quite near to the hotel but it’s over one mile in length and the MAX 2004 conference is located at the opposite end […]

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First set of pics online

by kai 31/10/2004

I put several pics online to my fotki account… A nice view from our hotel room in floor 27 CF_UNDERGROUND VI More to follow…

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Heat, jetlag and cold are killing me ;)

by kai 31/10/2004

Bloody hell, I thought I had to die after leaving the hotel this morning in direction of 601 Poydras Street where CF_UNDERGROUND VI takes place. I don’t know exactly what temperature we have over here, but I guess it to be around 28-30 degree Celsius and very humid. Additionally I’m still jet-lagged and have to […]

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Finally arrived…

by kai 31/10/2004

Finally Diane and I made it to New Orleans. Following German time I’m up now for 24 hours, New Orleans local time is about 10 pm on Saturday. Some good news, my friend and co-worker Alex also arrived in the US after he got some trouble getting a valid passport to enter the US after […]

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Intelligent blog comment spam…

by kai 28/10/2004

This is really unbelievable… I avoid spam to our blog comments now by using a mechanism of sending me an email containing the new comment. I have to allow each and every comment becoming visible in the blog by following a procedure which couldn’t be done by one of the spammers. Today I found the […]

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Autism Quotient and computer science

by kai 25/10/2004

This is an interesting one. Prof. Gunter Dueck, an IBM Distinguished Engineer, is publishing his personal scientific thoughts on the IT world regularly in the German Informatik Spektrum. The latter is a magazine (six issues per year) which is published by the German Society of Computer Science (GI) for its members, which I’m a member […]

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iX international – pilot issue

by kai 25/10/2004

iX, a German IT magazine which I publish articles in regularly, is available in an international version now. The pilot issue 0 is online for free on their web server The editors appreciate all interested people to download issue 0 and answer some questions on the feedback form. Sadly there isn’t one of my articles […]

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List of free XML tools…

by kai 17/10/2004

Just found this list of free XML tools via the goog and resolve. Worth a detailled look if you’re dealing with XML…!

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MXDU 2005: ready to go!

by kai 17/10/2004

MXDU 2005, we’re ready to go. I’m so bloody looking forward to travel down under again in 2005. Today I got the confirmation for one of my proposed sessions. I’m going to speak on “ColdFusion Scalability”, which was and still is one of my core fields of work over the last months. But – that’s […]

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