Archive: January 2006

27 posts

CFDOCUMENT and print stylesheets - sweet...

by kai on 26/01/2006

It took me half a day wondering why a set of particular documents didn't render correctly with CFDOCUMENT. Well - I thought they didn't render correctly. The mentioned documents were some webpages using Ben's Aura layout templates. They showed up pretty, well... "plain" in the pdf file. My first guess was that CFDOCUMENT wouldn't deal correctly with the tags used to include the style sheets,…

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No Flash Lite 2 for UIQ

by kai on 26/01/2006

I've just been into an Adobe Breeze seminar on Flash Lite 2.0. It was pretty interesting in terms of the embracement of new technologies like video and sound playback, but to be honest - I don't think it is going to become the major breakthrough I've expected. Another flaw is the limitation in terms of platforms. Right now there is a developer beta version on Macromedia Labs which is available…

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Webeffekt vs. eTracker...another sort of war...

by kai on 26/01/2006

It's always sad when companies got into public fights about variuos stuff. The one going on in Germany right now is even worse. A company called webeffekt accused another company named eTracker of allowing Goolge to spider and index internal customer data due to security flaws. Both companies are dealing with e-Commerce in general. BTW: The accusation is wrong, but that's just one of the points…

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Sweet: CFSKYPECOMMUNITY

by kai on 23/01/2006

Stephen Collins has opened up a thread about building a virtual Skype-based CF community. Sweeet idea, mate - guys, put yourself on the list if you wanna join!

If anyone needs to give me a call, my "add me" button is in the left column ;)

Call for interviews !!!

by kai on 23/01/2006

As I've mentioned in the my last post, I'll speaking at Blog Hui 2006 about the evolution of the Macromedia and now Adobe blog community. For that, I'd love to do get feedback from you - why and when have you started blogging, what's your motivation, for how long do you think you're going to do it in the future, how many hours a week do you sacrifice for maintaining your blog... you know, all…

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Speaking at Blog Hui 2006

by kai on 23/01/2006

Sweet, I've just got a confirmation of speaking at the Blog Hui 2006 conference in Wellington, New Zealand (March 17-18) My session will be - not surprisingly - on the evolution of the Macromedia/Adobe blog community throughout the last few years.

Watch out for the next post, might be interesting for all the readers ;)

CF Freelancer in Germany (NRW) wanted!

by kai on 22/01/2006

A good friend of mine is looking for a a few CF freelancers/contractors willing to work in the state of North-Rhine-Westfalia, Germany to work in client projects for a pretty well-known agency.

Knowledge in other technologies (PHP, Java) might help, but is not required. If you are interested in getting the details, drop me an email and I'll get you in touch with him.

Java/CF-workshop webDU: (request for) topics

by kai on 20/01/2006

The other day I've announced that I'm going to provide a 1/2-day workshop on CF-/Java integration during webDU 2006 jointly with my colleague Max Nyman. Some people asked me what exactly the content of that session will be. Well, it's not completely finalized, but to give you a rough idea: 1. Introduction into Java, the basic ideas of object-orientation and typed languages 2. Buzzwords and…

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Flashy and Psychic Valentine

by kai on 20/01/2006

A friend of mine being pretty fluent with Flash started a new business just recently. She has a special offer for Valentine's Day and as it's based on Flash, I didn't want to miss it out here: http://www.dragonflypsychic.com/valentine.html

Give it a try and enjoy!

Perpendicular Recording

by marcus on 18/01/2006

Just discovered this one:

Harddisk manufacturer Hitachi put a really neat and groovy flash movie about perpendicular recording on its website. It explains the principles of storing data "vertically", thus offering a higher areal density.

Flash movie about perpendicular recording

...still dancing... :D

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