Archive: January 2005

10 posts

Installing Flex 1.5 on Suse Linux 9

by kai on 26/01/2005

I've got a linux box running at an ISP for my testing, lab and fun projects. After receiving the Flex non-commercial license several days ago I installed it over the weekend and - be surprised or not - it went quite smoothly. As I never installed it on Linux before, I'm very happy about that - the installation process on Windows servers always was boring easy ;) There are two potential issues to…

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3G phones / Flash Lite

by kai on 25/01/2005

Just some days ago Macromedia announced Samsung taking over the Flash Lite 1.1 technology for their mobile handsets. That's good news for people being interested in developing Flash Lite apps for cellphones and it will be interesting to observe if - and which - other companys will follow. Well, Samsung isn't the top mobile brand - at least in Europe... but their market share is rising. I'd like…

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Flex non-commercial license

by kai on 12/01/2005

Yoohoo, I got my Flex non-commercial license finally. It has been in the mail already yesterday but I wasn't at home when UPS tried to deliver it. So it arrived today in the office where I will pick it up later that week as was there today and won't be in there tomorrow. I already know what the first app for bloginblack.de will be, and I have several other demos I'm going to show here - now that…

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Parsing text input with a LL(k)-parser

by kai on 12/01/2005

This is going to be the month of the weird ideas ;) After writing all the stuff on product selection and recommendation, I'm now thinking about parsing form input with a LL(k)-parser (generated by JavaCC for example) to notice if people try to fill code into a form instead of "text content". The idea came up my mind during a discussion with a client today and for me it seems to be interesting as…

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Product recommendation III

by kai on 11/01/2005

Finally, here's a .zip-file containing the components, example files with CFC method calls and a MySQL-database script. Download recommendation0_1.zip Further explanation and documentation is in the extended entry.The database consists of five tables: cart: CAR_ID is the PK CAR_CUS_ID is a FK and refers to a customer customer: CUS_ID is the customer ID and PK CUS_NAME is the name of the…

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MXDU 2005 approaching...

by kai on 10/01/2005

This is awesome, I just got an email from Geoff Bowers sending around a bunch of Flash banners for MXDU 2005. This year the theme is all about superheros - seems that "The incredibles" are in the cinemas in Australia already and that they're going to take a short break Feb 17-18 to visit the conference ;) They are done by Steve from Nectarine and the guys did another great job!

The conference website went live with the new skin today also!

Cabir worm pretends to be Flash Lite...

by kai on 10/01/2005

If you own a Symbian cellphone and if you're interested in Macromedias Flash Lite player, watch out! There is a .SIS-file around (the Symbian installer format) which pretends to be the Flash Lite player but which contains the Cabir worm for Symbian... This is ugly, so be careful. Obviously Macromedia don't ship that worm in their Flash Lite player. More information on it on f-secure.com:…

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Product Recommendation II

by kai on 06/01/2005

Jim commented my entry on product recommendation that he'd like to get some more details about the "mystic math" behind the approach. Ok, I'll do my best to deliver it a little bit more in depth...meanwhile the CFC are done also and I'll post them in one of the next entries tomorrow.So, let's assume a very basic setting. We run an online store with 3 products and we have 3 customers for now. Not…

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Flashinthecan 2005: I'll be there!

by kai on 03/01/2005

Flashinthecan 2004 in Toronto was a great conference, so I'm very happy that I've been selected to present at this year's conference in early April. Toronto is a great city and with FITC being a "creative" and "designer" conference, you'd end up with a totally different group of people over there (at least from my personal point of view as a "server guy" ;) and that provides a lot of…

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Product recommendation

by kai on 03/01/2005

During the holidays I read an interesting article on product recommendation systems for online shops. To be more precise, it was on the theory behind the algorithms and approaches used to filter the product set of an online shop to show the customer the products which might be worth having another look. If you ever bought something from Amazon, you know what I'm talking about...;) Well, finally I…

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