Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone VI

by kai 08/09/2004

– Multiple Instances: For most of the people it was a mess to setup CF with multiple instances on one machine. There is a instance manager now which allows to duplicate complete CF installations. Also, the nasty issue with the replication of CFC instances in the session scope (they didn’t replicate) will be fixed…;) – […]

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone V

by kai 08/09/2004

Some more information on printing and stuff… – For creating reports, MM provides a Tool called ColdFusion Report Builder, some sort of visual tool to define the layout of a to become generated report from query fields or other data. This tool creates so called .crf files which are necessary to use CFREPORT. Included is […]

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone IV

by kai 08/09/2004

After cake, sweets, fruits and tons of coffee… – Printing and Reporting: always a mess to define proper print output and to define reporting formats. – Blackstone solution: * CFDOCUMENT with attribute format=”pdf” creates a pdf file. * Embedding CFLOOP in a CFDOCUMENT wrapper works, also with dynamic data inside * CFDOCUMENTITEM with type=”header” or […]

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone III

by kai 08/09/2004

Continuing with the form stuff: – Since CF 2 the product provided nice tags like CFTREE, CFGRID etc. which had been realised as Java applets with all the pros and cons of that technology. – Blackstone solution: The approach is using the Flash technology as a frontend. That means for example that CFGRID received a […]

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone II

by kai 08/09/2004

Let me just express that I’m deeply impressed by the travel of Oğuz Demirkapı, User Group Manager of CFUG Turkey who travelled over to Cologne for seeing Ben speaking about Blackstone. That’s what I call a CF_GROUPIE 😉

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone I

by kai 08/09/2004

Today Ben Forta speaks about Blackstone over here in Cologne, Germany. This entry is updated regularly during his session… – An interesting observation: over 50% of the attendants are using CF MX or higher already. There were just one or two people just running on CF 4.something. – Did you know that CF was backwards […]

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MXDU 2005

by kai 07/09/2004

MXDU – the best and most fun Macromedia-related developers conference of the world – will happen again in 2005 as Geoff Bowers sent around emails last weekend using the mxdu-ann mailing list. The dates are Feb 17th and 18th 2005 and the venue is Sydneys Star City hotel and casino complex again. On Feb 16th […]

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MX Events

by kai 06/09/2004

Macromedia is going to provide a series of technology events in Europe during late September and eary October. Countries visited are UK, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Germany. More information about the event is available on http://www.macromedia-seminar.com/mx-events/. The registration fee for the German event is 150 Euros including lunch etc. and you could choose between a […]

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Registration for the Ben Forta event openend up again

by kai 06/09/2004

Ouups, the registration page for the Ben Forta event in Cologne on September 8th shut down it’s services and just presented that the event is booked out. Macromedia enhanced their room booking now 😉 and there are further seats to book now…

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3 Free Pocket PC Games

by kai 02/09/2004

If you own a Windows powered Pocket PC, watch out for Pocketblasters.com. They have three free games out now which reminds me a bit to the old huge arcade machines of the 80s… Have fun!

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