Archive: December 2006

5 posts

CF Flashforms and Safari

by kai on 19/12/2006

I've just had an interesting experience with a CF Flashform. I've built a Flashform-based survey application for a client and it worked just fine in IE and Firefox on different platforms. After a while the client came back and told us that their target audience (schools) are heavily into using the Safari browser on Mac and that they basically couldn't see the text of the survey questions. All the…

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Nectarine XMAS

by kai on 15/12/2006

I've just got an electronic xmas card from the guys at Nectarine. It's on a public website anyway, so have a look at this beauty from Australia and New Zealand's masters of animation: XMAS @ Nectarine.

And while you're doing that, make sure you've had a look at the 10th anniversary movie and the Flash 8 introduction from Nectarine. Oh - there are a few other interesting and linked characters on the card as well...

ColdFusion MX 7 and Apache 2.2.x

by kai on 12/12/2006

Usually I'm pretty lazy with running my CF dev installation. I just use CF's internal HTTP server on port 8300 (as I run the multiserver setup) and put my apps in subfolders of the webroot. I just install a proper HTTP server if really necessary and not to be avoided ;) For some particular setup I've wanted to run on my dev machine, I had to do exactly this. I haven't setup a HTTP server on that…

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If you work with lawyers who have no idea of the web...

by kai on 06/12/2006

New Zealand has a new online micropayment system - Pago. Currently Pago is some sort the target of a lot of interesting discussions down here. Disclaimer: Please note that I have not been to the Pago website myself. I got all the information from an anonymous colleague of mine who has been to their website apparently. Additionally a lot of that was mentioned on the NZ 2.0 google group and this…

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Akismet: stop comment spam 101

by kai on 01/12/2006

I've implemented akismet for Blog in Black the other day, after reading about it in Kay's blog. Akismet is really amazing - it's basically a wordpress plugin (implemented as some sort of HTTP-based service), which talks to a huge spamfilter hosted somewhere. The akismet plugin posts all the comment information to this service and gets a spam or nospam result back. Then it's up to you as a user…

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