Archive: August 2005

8 posts

Flex, Eclipse and the Eclipse Web Tools Platform

by kai on 31/08/2005

In one of my last posts I told you about some issue with OxygenXML and Eclipse 3.1 when doing Flex development. Luckily, Darron Schall just blogged about his efforts to use the Eclipse Web Tools Platform for Flex development and seemed to be pretty satisfied with it.

I gave it a try today and I'd have to say that it's a blast. The installation worked totally smoothly, it's perfectly integrated in Eclipse and does exactly what it's supposed to do.

Another one on German election

by kai on 29/08/2005

My work-mate Michael posted a pretty detailled review of the website of the German major parties in his blog. Very entertaining to read, but just available in German...

Visualization of Amdahls Law II: Flex app

by kai on 28/08/2005

Following my last two posts, here's the final Flex app. If it takes a while to load and to start the reason is most probably not your line or Flex, it's more or less because of my pretty slow server.

Well, comparing to yesterday's screenshot, I changed a few things in the UI, applied a style sheet etc.

If you're interested in the code, you can download it here. But don't expect a magnificient firework of creativity, it's pretty simple and straightforward ;)

Visualization of Amdahls Law in Flex

by kai on 28/08/2005

Tonight, I've been slightly bored by no friends available, wife off for work over the weekend, lousy TV programme and dumb weather ;) So, following my last post on why CF developers should care about Java stuff, I built a simple Flex app to visualize Amdahls Law. Here's a screenshot, I just have to make it pretty and put in onto my Flex machine (I'm running the non-commercial edition). Well, I've…

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Java (and CF) garbage collection: Why should you care?

by kai on 27/08/2005

Just recently I was asked why one should care about JVM tuning, garbage collection and other "very low-level settings" (the latter from the point of view of the average CF developer). I mean, I'm talking and writing about that pretty often... so - a reasonable question. Let me give you an example with figures... Let's assume we're talking about a Java application using Javas internal garbage…

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Way off topic: German politics

by kai on 17/08/2005

To mark that point very clearly: this if off-topic. It's neither an official statement of bloginblack.de nor of Agent M, it's just my private opinion of the general election rally getting started over here. Well, to give you an introduction: This country is governed by a SPD/Green coalition. For all those people not knowing the SPD - compare it to the US Democrats and you're not too far away...…

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Let's do the timewarp again...

by kai on 16/08/2005

Back in the late nineties, a lot of companies burned their cash for...well...ideas, dreams of getting rich, Sun 450 servers, over-priced Oracle licenses, sushi for lunch, an expensive office and some more stuff. I used to work for one on those companies in 2000 and had some sort of timewarp experience just recently. A former work-mate of mine started blogging and found some old sites we built and…

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Flashforum Conference Tour 2005

by kai on 15/08/2005

The German Flashforum Conference 2005 will be held as a tour, travelling through different cities and three different countries (Germany, Austria and Switzerland). If you have attended last year's conference in Düsseldorf, you probably remember back to it as a very good event with a lot of interesting sessions. This year's tour stop in Duesseldorf will be on Sept, 21st and I'm going to speak…

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