Archive: July 2007

12 posts

Solved: good email client for OS X - PowerMail

by kai on 30/07/2007

The other day I've blogged about my struggle to find a well suited email client for Mac OS X. I've decided to give Mail.app another try, but I was heavily disappointed. Although the client is nice it just didn't work properly to import my huge mailbox files and it took literally minutes to render particular folder (a few thousand emails in one folder seems to be the maximum it could cope with).…

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HP Laserjet 1020 on OS X

by kai on 27/07/2007

When we've moved to New Zealand in 2005, the amount of luggage/stuff we were taking was limited. At that time, I owned a pretty fancy HP Laserjet 13something printer I was really happy with - due to luggage restrictions, I've some sort of parked it with my father-in-law who didn't mind :) I bought a pretty cheap printer (HP LJ 1020, one of those "Windows only" printers) and it worked alright with…

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Map24 for AU and NZ

by kai on 26/07/2007

Map24 used to be the leader of the pack when it came to online mapping technologies and routing when I was living back in Germany. Today I found (pretty much by accident) that they have a new Developer Network and an AJAX API for their maps and that they're also available pretty much world-wide. Their satellite images for NZ are not really usable for anything, haven't tested routing yet.

Wanted: A good email client for OS X

by kai on 25/07/2007

One of the reasons why I've been a bit quieter during the last 2-3 weeks is that I'm migrating my work environment from PC to Mac and this is a bit of work because besides playing with my new toy (2.4 GHz MBP, 4 GB RAM) I have to continue being at least a bit productive and earn some money :) Anyway - I'm pretty much done with moving all my data to the new machine, setting up software etc. All…

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Job: Web developers at Sunshine Coast

by kai on 25/07/2007

One of my clients is looking for THREE web developers at the wonderful Sunshine Coast of Australia. You should have knowledge in ColdFusion and Java on the backend side of things, if you've got exposure to Flex- or Flash-based Rich Client development - even better. The job description is available online, have a look! You would be involved in a pretty cool international Flex/AIR development…

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BIB saves energy

by kai on 24/07/2007

Finally, it has been scientifically proven that Blog in Black is saving energy and by that stopping the climate change. Diane pointed me to this post on EcoIron today... I'm proud that our background color is helping to make the world a better place and that all our readers accept this when it comes to readibility :)

FXUG Cairngorm talk

by kai on 07/07/2007

Also - I've presented about Cairngorm (from a 30,000 ft point of view) at our last Flex User Group meeting. Sadly, the Breeze recording didn't work that night.
But finally - here are the slides as pdf.

The example code I've used for the demonstration and to show different elements of a Cairngorm application could be found on: Darren Houle?s ?Cafe Townsend Multi-View Contact Management? Example









NZ CFUG talk slides, recording and files

by kai on 07/07/2007

I've presented about different ways to deal with application configuration at the last NZ CFUG meeting. David Harris has published the recording, the slides are below, and I've also uploaded the example code.

Download the pdf or read it online below:










A story of the past

by kai on 03/07/2007

I was inspired to write this entry while reading Agent M's post about his new endeavours in starting his own company in Germany together with Bernd. It's a post about the past, basically about how M and K met, worked together and about the company we used to work for. I've started doing CF in the late 90s and at some point in early 2001 ended up working as a Software Architect for a company…

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Travel mashup raffle

by kai on 03/07/2007

And now - as a reward for those who read my last post, a small competition with a nice price to win: A Total Training DVD "Total Training for Adobe Flex 2" hosted by James Talbot How to get it? The first person to send me an email to kai (at) thisdomainhere answering correctly the following questions is going to win this DVD. 1. What's the reason for this trip? 2. What are departure city, the…

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