Archive: September 2004

36 posts

One more day for the CF_Underground VI Early Bird registration

by kai on 29/09/2004

Take one of the last chances to register yourself for CF_Underground VI for just 69 US$. This early bird rate is just valid until tomorrow, after tomorrow the rate increases to 99 US$. The conference will be on October, 31st 2004 - the day before the MAX 2004 pre-conference day. Location is the Pan American Conference Center, 601 Poydras Street in New Orleans. The map makes me guess that it…

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A special for Alex...

by kai on 29/09/2004

Couldn't resist... Alex is a pug lover ;) and as I watched the most recent series of German "Popstars" tonight I found this. It's a photography of my TV screen captured with the cam of my cell phone. This quiz question to win is:

What type of dog is this?

a) St Bernard
b) pug

Alex, do you know the answer? I expect a post about the differences between pugs and St Bernards in your blog for tonight or tomorrow.

Do you need a job in the Munich area?

by kai on 28/09/2004

A friend of mine working for a MM-related web development company asked me to post this. They are looking for an experienced and well-performing web developer for highend and complex CF and J2EE projects. They'd like to hire someone permanently and are located in the near Munich area. I post this at this place because they don't care from where you come from, but very good Englisch language…

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New Orleans, we're coming

by kai on 27/09/2004

As I posted already for several occasions, I'm going to visit MAX 2004 in New Orleans in early November. New is: my wife joins me for the trip to do some sightseeing around New Orleans and my weird colleague Alex - the crazy guy who's blogging on www.codenamebeefy.de - will also be there. His plans are a little bit different: stay in New Orleans until Nov, 4, take a car and drive along the gulf…

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Breezo: ColdFusion Performance Tuning

by kai on 24/09/2004

The famous Agent M of Blog in Black ;) (aka Marcus Raphelt) is going to host a Breeze talk on ColdFusion Application Performance Tuning on Oktober, 4th 2004. Start is at 4 p.m. German time, that should be 10 a.m. on Americas east coast, 7 a.m. west coast and something around midnight in Australia (sorry folks...) The talk itself will be in a mix of German and English, depending on how many people…

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Certified Flex Instructor

by kai on 24/09/2004

I'm a Macromedia Certified Flex Instructor now. After working with the class materials - by the way: the class is called "Developing Rich Internet Applications with Macromedia Flex" and it's a 3-day class - I'm very happy with it. It's a great course and it will give the students a brilliant introduction into Flex development models. Want to take a class with me? I'm still trying to separate this…

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Airport chaos

by kai on 24/09/2004

During the last days I was on the road to deliver a ACFD class at a customer in Hamburg and after that I went down to Zurich and Munich to speak about Flex during the LogOn InfoDays Java. Fine so far, the audience seemed to be really interested in the technology and I got the chance to talk to some people afterwards. But - yesterdays flying was a mess. The technicians of Lufthansa systems crashed…

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Richard Stallman on software patents

by kai on 24/09/2004

Maybe someone is interested in this: On Sep 28, 2004, Richard Stallmann is visiting the University of Essen (central in Germanys wonderful Rhine-Ruhr-Area) to talk about software patents: The agenda for the night is: 17:30 - 18:15 Uhr The impact of software patents on the IT world (Dr. Peter Gerwinski) 18:15 - 19:00 Uhr The Danger of Software Patents (Richard Stallman,…

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Critical CF and JRun security issue

by kai on 24/09/2004

Macromedia recently released two security warnings regarding CF and JRun. Running them in combination with Microsofts IIS using the IIS connector it might be possible to view and spy the source code of not Macromedia related third party files:

Description and patch files for CFMX:
MPSB04-09 - Cumulative Security Patch available for ColdFusion MX

Description and patch files for JRun:
MPSB04-08 - Cumulative Security Patch available for JRun server

Codename Beefy

by kai on 24/09/2004

Codename "Beefy" is a new blog in the German somehow-Macromedia-related weblog family. It's maintained by Alex Riemer, a totally weird guy who's working for msg at.NET also. Check it out if you're able to read German...