Archive: March 2006

17 posts

The flow

by kai on 30/03/2006

For some reason, I'm really keen on blogging today. One of those days... anyway - after contributing some stuff to ZeroOne's teamblog theword today, I need to post at least one new entry over here... BTW: Make sure to read my post on Outsourcing to New Zealand :-) This one is about 'the flow'. If you're a developer you might know it - it's the mood you're getting into when coding - in an ideal…

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RDS plugin for Eclipse: first thoughts

by kai on 26/03/2006

You might have noticed that Adobe released an RDS plugin for Eclipse. It's officially known as a "ColdFusion Extension for Flex Builder 2.0", but at least the recent version works totally smoothly without Flex Builder 2.0 beta but with CF Eclipse. As it seems that there was some confusion around it regarding the required (CF)Eclipse version etc., I'm running Eclipse 3.1.1 and a nightly build of…

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Some mixed stuff

by kai on 18/03/2006

Some mixed stuff and links that I came across during the last few days:

Good CSS tutorials

Microsoft IE Active Content Update - particularly important for Flash developers
Breezo on IE Update
Flex 1.5 patch for IE update

Nokia Flash Lite Zone

Tons of stuff on labs.adobe.com:

XMP toolkit
Breezo on Flex-Ajax integration
AS 3 libraries
Flex-Ajax integration

Search Engines and Flash

Everything Flex Blog

An interesting discussion on expiring form data in CFFORMS

JSON

by kai on 10/03/2006

I've never heard about JSON until some weeks ago when I was reading an article on web services and data exchange that mentioned JSON. Actually it is a pretty cool mechanism to serialize complex data structures for data exchange or storage purposes. I hear you saying..."Well, we have that in ColdFusion already, it's called WDDX". Right - good point. Let's have a closer look: - WDDX is built into…

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Geocaching

by kai on 08/03/2006

Finally, we've started geocaching. I bought a basic Garmin GPS device (eTrex Legend) last week in Australia and it worked out fine. The other night I was thinking about getting an additional maps, containing more details. I was pretty close to buying a mappack but then I found the New Zealand Open GPS Map Project for Garmin. Awesome stuff of very high quality!

Awesome use of Flash

by kai on 08/03/2006

The National Bank of New Zealand launched a great web application based on Flash. Well, the application is not rocket science, but the idea is just awesome. The National Bank is one of New Zealand's full service banks. That said, they offer a wide range of personal or business services. One of them is an EFTPOS card (in other countries that might be called bank card, EC card, cash card),…

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Mollio and Aura

by kai on 08/03/2006

As officially being "design-challenged", I'm always looking for ways to be able to actually put at least anything online that looks more or less pretty. Usually I try to use some sort of stylesheet templates and tweak them to my needs. A very good approach for that is Aura by Ben Bishop.

Just recently Daemon released Mollio, that seems to follow a similar approach. Looks very interesting though, I'll give a try soon!

webDU 204-2006 keynotes

by kai on 08/03/2006

Geoff and Nectarine released the keynote animation movies of the MXDU 2004 and 2005 as well as the brand new animation of webDU 2006. Those are a must to watch, they are part of the best the internet has to offer imho!

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