Archive: March 2005

9 posts

Mysterious series of expired CF licenses ;)

by kai on 30/03/2005

The first case of the mysterious license expiration happend about six week ago and was revealed by the genius of Detective Superintendant Dirk Eismann. He noticed that the ColdFusion 7 license of a very famous person in the Macromedia-sphere was just expired. Read more about this case in Dirk Eismanns online case files. Now it happened again. The mysterious license expiration series continues…

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Birthday presents of an average surfin' marketing consultant

by kai on 30/03/2005

My co-worker Michael who is hooked into the marketing recently blogged about all the virtual birthday gifts he received for his last birthday. He received a lot of vouchers (Amazon UK and US - nothing from the greedy German branch), Payback (the German fly buys), foto development companies, cellphone operators etc... At all - most of it is bullshit - but isn't it scaring how much THEY know about you :-)

Flash development using open source technology

by kai on 30/03/2005

Last week I was pointed to an interesting article on open source tools for Flash development. It's by Carlos Rovira and it's title is Towards Open Source Flash Development. Strongly recommended to read!

Home computers in the year 2004

by marcus on 14/03/2005

Did you ever wonder how computers might look like in 2054?
Well, some scientists built a model in 1954 to show how they might look like in 2004.

Prognosis

Err... slightly missed by a mile ;)
Everything you need! Force-Feedback steering wheel, flying b/w tv, lots of meters to impress your friends...

MXDU 2005: Finally, the pics

by kai on 09/03/2005

Folks, we're back in Germany now for 4 days and I'm still suffering from early wake ups (between 1:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.), "give-me-food-attacks" on very uncommon occasions and times - but finally I managed to put a collection of MXDU-related pics online. Here are the links: Conference pics Experience Sean Corfield, Jesse Warden, Mike Chambers and a lot of other celebs during the banquet, breaks…

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German CEBIT 2005 to start tomorrow - 2 free tickets to giveaway

by kai on 09/03/2005

Tomorrow the huge German CEBIT in Hannover is going to open it's doors for exhibitors and visitors. Macromedia Germany / Europe decided not to have their own stand this year which I personally really regret because imho they have had great success with it during the last years. Nevertheless they're there. The German Center of Execellence consisting of a set of Macromedia partners rented their own…

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Dependent CFSELECTS using CF7's Flashforms

by kai on 08/03/2005

While playing with the Flashforms in CF 7 yesterday I nearly went mad as it didn't work easily to have two CFSELECT controls, both published by a particular db query, in which the first allows to select the parent category and the second one displaying a particular set of entries related to the selection of the first select control. The problem is that CFSELECT doesn't allow binding in the way…

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ACME Guide 1.1

by kai on 08/03/2005

Via Sean Corfield... on Acid they released a very good and entertaining to read setup guide for a CF development environment consisting of CF 7, Apache, MySql and Eclipse.

New blog in town... richshoppingblog.de

by kai on 07/03/2005

There is an interesting new blog online if you're interested in the business and marketing aspects of online shopping. Two of my co-workers (Michael Quack and Michael Jung) blog on those topics with a strong focus on using Macromedia technologies: www.richshoppingblog.de

The drawback is: it's just available in German, so it might become difficult for the non-German folks. Maybe some sort of auto-translation like babelfish etc. might help...