Archive: February 2010

11 posts

Speaking at webDU 2010 (May 6 and 7 2010, Bondi Beach)

by kai on 26/02/2010

I'm again speaking at this year's webDU (and it's going to be the 8th time in a row - I think the only other people who have presented at each MXDU/webDU since it started in 2003 are Andrew Muller and Mr. Geoff Bowers himself now, yay!). BTW: Did everyone realise that the registration for webDU 2010 is open and that the Early Bird price (AU$ 695 is really a bargain for the two days) runs out on…

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I'm flying an AirNZ 777-200

by kai on 25/02/2010

Well, in a simulator, but still... :-) The next action item after being to the Engineering base was the 777-sim ride. Air NZ has two simulator and training buildings in the vicinity of Auckland Airport. The one that hosts the 777-200 simulator also houses a Q300 simulator (if I remember correctly), used by the regional subsidies of Air NZ, and a shiny new 777-300 simulator. The first actual…

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A visit at Air New Zealand's Engineering Base in Auckland

by kai on 24/02/2010

This is the second post about my awesome day on Monday. After @blauerpunto and I arrived in Auckland, Mark Farley from Air NZ picked us up at the air bridge. Mark is a Flight Service Manager with Air New Zealand but also does a lot of work on the ground. One of his projects is crew management, training and planning for a project Air NZ runs together with Hawaiian Airlines (more on that further…

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An awesome day with Air New Zealand

by kai on 23/02/2010

Yesterday, I had one of the most awesome days of my life. It would rate it right below the category comprising "Getting married to @blauerpunto" and "Getting permanent residency in New Zealand" and on a very similar level with stuff such as "Flying in a small airplane for the first time" and "Going solo in a small airplane for the first time". So - what happened? Let me briefly introduce you to…

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My personal review of Webstock 2010 – (part III: conference proper Friday)

by kai on 23/02/2010

This is the final post of the Webstock 2010 series. It's covering Friday of "conference proper". The day started with a nice breakfast at Finc (not part of the official Webstock agenda though) and a way too cold auditorium in the Town Hall. But Internet was fixed again and it seemed as if most people were able to login to the Wifi again. The Friday sessions: Eric Ries - The Lean Startup My…

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My personal review of Webstock 2010 – (part II: conference proper Thursday)

by kai on 22/02/2010

This second part of my Webstock 2010 review briefly covers the conference sessions on Thursday and some other bits and pieces around it. Webstock 2010 was again held in Wellington's Town Hall - the historic and classic style of the building really lends itself to an event like Webstock and if it was mine I wouldn't move it anywhere else either. Most of the conference is run as a single stream of…

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My personal review of Webstock 2010 - (part I: workshops)

by kai on 22/02/2010

Last week Wellington's IT and web crowd celebrated the annual Webstock week. You'd think that at the end of the day, Webstock is just another conference - but that would be quite of an understatement and completely miss the point. First of all, Webstock runs for pretty much a full week: Monday to Wednesday are filled with a bunch of 1/2-day or full-day workshops (to be booked and paid for on top…

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ParameterExists => isDefined

by marcus on 06/02/2010

Another quick regex: to perform a sitewide search/replace that replaces every "parameterExists" by "isDefined", simply do a:

Search: parameterExists\((*)\)
Replace: isDefined("\1")

That saved me at least 2 hours :-)

cfqueryparam / regular expression

by marcus on 06/02/2010

Currently, I'm migrating a CF5/Win project to CFMX9/Linux. Apart from the usual path issues, the one who programmed this app yeeears ago did not protect *any single* form- or url-variable inside CFQUERY against misuse or even SQL-Injection. Not one syntax check, no CFQUERYPARAM... *sigh* Unfortunately, it's impossible to perform a sitewide search/replace, so I have to open every single file…

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Speaking at Flash Platform User Group Wellington (New Zealand)

by kai on 05/02/2010

After the XMas break is now finally over and summer has arrived in Wellington, we're starting the monthly meetings of the Flash Platform User Group again. Actually we were known as the Flex User Group but went through a bit of self-finding and re-branding and the outcome is a broader focus on the overall Flash Platform. That also includes Flash, AIR, Flash Catalyst and associated things like the…

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