Archive: January 2010

7 posts

Webinale 2010

by kai on 29/01/2010

Yay, Webinale 2010 in Berlin is on again (31/05 - 02/06) and I'm going to be hosting and moderating the RIA day at the conference. I'm quite happy and proud to have put together a super-interesting agenda (tentatively) with a quite international bouquet of speakers (in fact: Australia, New Zealand, France and Germany :-) 1. Kai Koenig: Wieviel RIA braucht der Mensch? (@agentk) 2. Thibault Imbert:…

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Disabling CTRL+ALT+DEL to login in Win 2k3 server

by kai on 29/01/2010

Args, this is one of those "note to myself" posts. Today I was looking (for the n-th time) for the local policy setting to switch of the necessity that a user has to press CTRL+ALT+DEL to login in a Win 2k3 server. It's particularly annoying as I'm running one for development purposes in a VM and I'm forced to use the VMWare Fusion menu to simulate the key stroke. Now, here it is: Launch Group…

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Why Air New Zealand is the Airline of the Year!

by kai on 25/01/2010

Air New Zealand (short Air NZ from here on) - my home turf airline - has recently been named Airline of the Year in the Air Transport World magazine awards. There are plenty of reasons why they absolutely have deserved to win this award. Plenty, really! Lance Wiggs has listed a few of those from his point of view and I couldn't agree more (Make sure you read it, Lance's post is really interesting…

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OS X quick look for Flex

by kai on 23/01/2010

A few days ago I posted about using qlcolorcode to display syntax highlighted ColdFusion code in Mac OS X's Finder's quick look. Now - I had a bit of a look into how to use/extend the same plugin for displaying Action Script and MXML code as well. Qlcolorcode already has built-in support for Action Script (although it's not complete and really 100% correct for AS3 as it appears to me), but it's…

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Accessible PDF documents and forms

by kai on 20/01/2010

Yes, to a lot of people's surprise PDF documents can be authored (and made afterwards) accessible. The keywords here are avoiding scanned paper documents (although OCR can do quite a lot) and in particular making use of tagging and reading order. A very good overview is provided by the Social Security Administration in the US. Although not everything in there is applicable in non-US countries due…

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A look into onApplicationStart (ColdFusion)

by kai on 20/01/2010

Well, most of you would know that the onApplicationStart() method in ColdFusion's Application.cfc is a single-threaded method that's being executed by ColdFusion after the start of the application. The reason for an application having the necessity to start could for instance be that CF or the underlying machine has been restarted or that the application had run into its timeout. Recently while…

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OS X quick look for ColdFusion

by kai on 19/01/2010

I haven't blogged for ages - but that's not the point of this post. I recently had to quickly glance over a whole lot of legacy CF files and I didn't want to have to open each individual file in my preferred IDE. OS X supports quick look by hitting the space bar in finder for a lot of file types, ColdFusion wasn't supported so far. The other day then I found a quick look plugin named qlcolorcode…

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