Archive: January 2007

5 posts

CF and web service stub/skeleton classes

by kai on 27/01/2007

This one is more of a reminder for myself ;-) I'm always slightly annoyed that ColdFusion caches the web services classes that it creates for later reuse - particularly during development.

Doug Boude blogged about how to overcome this via the almighty ServiceFactory (no support, folks) a while ago - I was just pointed to this by one of the other guys I'm working with at one of my current clients. Thanks Liam!

Customize your card(s)

by kai on 17/01/2007

A friend of mine has started a new business - card-shark.de. Basically it is about trick playing cards for magicians - those type of cards that have two diffent card types and values of the front side, a totally different back etc.

It's actually pretty cool and there seems to be a rather big demand. And you can also configure your own personal trick/magic cards with a nice rich internet application (click on "Online Card-Builder) in the navigation.

webDU 2007 - sessions

by kai on 16/01/2007

At this year's webDU 2007, I'm going to provide two sessions - a pre-conference hands-on workshop on Flex Data Services and a conference session titled: "ColdFusion, Flex and the wonderful world of web services and SOA".

That DOES indeed sound interesting - yes, I second that! Click on the image below to get the session descriptions and book your conference pass and my workshop ;)!

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webDU 2007 - 5 years of Daemon Goodness

by kai on 16/01/2007

webDU 2007 is approaching with faaaaaaast moves and I will be there. This is my 5th conference (out of 5, yeeeah) and as every year I'm sure it will be the best, most entertaining, friedliest, most social and most amazing and educating conference of the year! I hear you asking why - well, the Aussies and the New Zealanders are nice and friendly people (wonder who's kicking my butt for that in the…

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Happy New Year and some changes: Ventego Creative Ltd.

by kai on 14/01/2007

Happy New Year - yes, I know, it's Jan 15 already. Sorry for that, folks ;) There are some news to tell: I've left my full-time employment with ZeroOne in Wellington and Jan 12 was my last day. Starting from today I'm a self-employed Software Solutions Architect working for our own company: Ventego Creative Ltd. Just in case you wonder about the name: "ventego" is the Esperanto expression for…

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