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OS X quick look for Flex

by kai 23/01/2010

A few days ago I posted about using qlcolorcode to display syntax highlighted ColdFusion code in Mac OS X’s Finder’s quick look. Now – I had a bit of a look into how to use/extend the same plugin for displaying Action Script and MXML code as well.

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A look into onApplicationStart (ColdFusion)

by kai 20/01/2010

Well, most of you would know that the onApplicationStart() method in ColdFusion’s Application.cfc is a single-threaded method that’s being executed by ColdFusion after the start of the application

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OS X quick look for ColdFusion

by kai 19/01/2010

I recently had to quickly glance over a whole lot of legacy CF files and I didn’t want to have to open each individual file in my preferred IDE. OS X supports quick look by hitting the space bar in finder for a lot of file types, ColdFusion wasn’t supported so far.

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Most amazing out-of-office notification

by kai 12/02/2009

Just sent an email to Duane Nickull (already knowing that he’s off snowboarding to Whistler). That’s what I got as an automated reply (I crossed out the cell # and date here): — quote — I am on vacation at Whistler, BC, probably having more fun that you if you are reading this. I will […]

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Hightlighted borders in LiveCycle Designer

by kai 24/11/2008

I came across a slightly weird issue the other day when building forms in LiveCycle Designer. LC forms offer the nice and simple feature of being able to create form elements that render highlighted in Reader or Acrobat Pro when mandatory. For whatever reason I had a few form elements in which the form element […]

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CF 8.0.1: Deleting a file after attaching it to an email

by kai 13/11/2008

There’s a tiny, little new feature in CF 8 Updater 1 that I bet not many people even know about – I didn’t until yesterday. It came up during a discussion on cfaussie about attaching files to outgoing emails just the other day and it basically solves the problem of deleting a file after it […]

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Edge of the Web conference, Perth 2008

by kai 17/07/2008

Awesome, I’ll be traveling over to Perth in November to attend the Edge of the Web conference. I’m going to do a regular conference session during the main conference (Nov 6) and will offer a 1/2 day workshop on the day after the main conference (Nov 7). The topic of the 1/2 day workshop on […]

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Best use of AIR so far? :)

by kai 17/07/2008

I got this via Matt Voerman while having a Skype chat conversation with him. Desktop Keely seems to be very close to being the best use of the AIR technology so far, LOL. Having downloaded the “application” immediately after Mr. Voerman kindly pointed me to this excellent use of the platform, I started to study […]

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What’s wrong with those people and their animals :) ?

by kai 17/07/2008

It seems some people I know and who are also more or less heavily involved in the Adobe community have a reasonably “different” relationship to (their) animals. Let’s start with Kay. Well known blogger, friend and co-worker of mine and a fellow Adobe Ambassador. Back in the days, she used to own a goat. Fair […]

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Web on the Piste

by kai 16/07/2008

Web of the Piste 2008 is not to far away – August 20 and 21, 2008. For all those of you not knowing the conference from last year, it’s a RIA technology event down in Queenstown, New Zealand. Diane and I went down there last year and we had a lot of fun staying in […]

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