Archive: June 2007

11 posts

JSON and CF 7

by kai on 28/06/2007

This one is more a personal bookmark for myself, but it might be interesting for others as well. Chris just asked about JSON support in CF on the CFUGNewZealand list and I've recommended using CFJSON, which I'm pretty happy with.

While looking for the link I found Ben Nadel's posts about his own, modified version of CFJSON which seems to be interesting and def. worth a look.

Also, don't forget that CF 8 has some nice and inbuilt features to deal with JSON...

Air NZ "How far can I go": Innovative RIA!

by kai on 26/06/2007

After bitching about the poor online booking facilities of House of Travel, Flightcentre and STA Travel NZ yesterday, I'm happy to show you a cool, innovative and rich sales support tool by Air New Zealand: "How far can I go?"

hfcig.jpg

It's easy to use and motivates potential customers to book a flight for a vacation or the occasional weekend trip with them ("Hey darling, let's spend $200 for flights and see what we could do with it!").

Well done, Air NZ, well done!

Some interesting facts about...

by kai on 25/06/2007

...porn! Michael from e-commerce-blog.de posted this one the other day (he's surfing on the "I blog about 'your porn'" wave to get traffic :). Awesome video - would you believe me that you're actually learning a few things?

Yes, I know, I'm using the fact that this is actually a hot chick - before you complain about sexism - shot a similar video starring a handsome guy and I'll post it as well! Besides that - putting it online here has been officially permitted by Diane :)

Travel sites in New Zealand

by kai on 25/06/2007

The other day Ashley McKee was writing about hotwire.com, a travel site that - well... - didn't get the concept of multi-city flight bookings quite right. Bascially they're offering the option and then forward their customers to expedia.com - why would you do that? To show you that hotwire.com is not even at the lower end of what travel sites throughout the world have to offer, let's have a look…

Read the full article →

IIS shutdown on Windows

by kai on 25/06/2007

One of my clients' production CF servers went down during the weekend. When investigating the issue this morning, we actually found that it was not ColdFusion itself that crashed, but IIS - symptoms: "Service unavailable" pages when you were requesting any type of page from the server. The event logs listed the following: A process serving application pool 'DefaultAppPool' terminated…

Read the full article →

flashplayermobile.com?

by kai on 24/06/2007

Has anyone seen flashplayermobile.com yet? It seems to be a stand-alone .swf player for Pocket PC - but based on the official ActiveX control from Macromedia/Adobe?

I like grunty machines!

by kai on 24/06/2007

8cpus.jpg

Tonight: Two Flex Connect sessions in AsiaPac

by kai on 19/06/2007

Two brief announcements for two interesting Connect sessions on Flex being held in AsiaPac (ordered by time, all times in NZ time): 1. NZ Flex User Group (in Wellington if you want to come over) 5:15pm for a 5:30pm start (convert to your time) Topics: Adobe news, Flex and Java, The Cairngorm micro architecture from 30000 ft http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/nzfxug/ 2. Flex APAC seminar 3 (in…

Read the full article →

Venn diagrams

by kai on 15/06/2007

I had to do pretty extensive CF list modifications in one of my projects the other day. To do that, I used the good old Venn diagram metaphor to work with sets and AND, OR, NOT operators - made my life much easier. Why I'm writing this: while dealing with it, I remembered back to primary school when we were introduced to basic Venn diagrams (for 7 or 8 year olds...) - using a plastic template to…

Read the full article →

Adobe AIR derby

by kai on 15/06/2007

Andrew Spaulding just pointed me to this: The Adobe AIR derby is now available world-wide, not just in the US. Well, not 100% sure about world-wide, but at least it's def. available in Australia and New Zealand :) Well done Adobe!

← Previous Entries