Archive: April 2010

7 posts

Apple vs Adobe vs HTML 5 vs Apple vs Flash vs whatever

by kai on 30/04/2010

I'm fed up. It's enough. Thx. I don't care who started it; I don't care why Steve and Shantanu don't want to play with each other's companies anymore and I'm seriously fed up with everyone talking about nothing else. Disclaimer: I'm a Flex and Flash developer myself and I personally would have really liked to see any form of Flash support for the iPhone or iPad. But maybe it's time that everyone…

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Next Flash Platform User Group in Wellington: May 18, 2010

by kai on 28/04/2010

Topics: MySnapper Highs and Lows! Zaid Dabbagh (RIA Developer) and Sean Higham (Product Manager) from Snapper Services Limited (www.snapper.co.nz) present some of the highs and lows of developing MySnapper - an AIR Application that allows users to top up their Snapper Cards. This session explores limitations of AIR 1.0, and security flaws and how we had to work around those. We also explore other…

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Commit notification for SVN on Windows

by kai on 25/04/2010

Just recently I was working with one of my clients on their development process. Their infrastructure is primarily Windows-based and there's also a Windows-based SVN server that we use as the main repository storage. The task at hand was to setup commit hooks to create and send emails to a variety of people on successful commit. Now - on Linux or OS X that sounds like a trivial task (it actually…

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ColdFusion Builder, file encodings and i18n

by kai on 25/04/2010

I recently came across a discussion on the German ColdFusion mailing list where people talked about the alleged inability of ColdFusion Builder to deal properly with German umlauts. Phrases like "this product is completely unusable" or "this is a bug that has been continuously ignored by the CF Builder team" were used. After having tried it myself with files of a variety of encodings, I can…

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Unhandled exception in FormDesigner.exe - Excuse me?

by kai on 16/04/2010

This is just a heads-up / note to myself / note to everyone else on a weird issue I had today with LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2. I wanted to use an installation on a Win XP SP 2 VM (typical training or "I just need to quickly edit a form" setup for me). Said installation always worked fine and I never had any issues with it before. Firing it up today left me ending up with an "unhandled expection in…

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CENTEROS: Data Center Management with Flex

by kai on 14/04/2010

I just thought, I'd take a bit of time to show off one of the projects we've been working on recently: CENTEROS - an affordable software for Data Center Management. You all have an idea what a data center is, right? Quite large buildings hosting a vast amount of technology such as server racks and servers, air conditioning, diesel backup generators and much more. A data center is pretty much the…

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Regular Expressions @webDU - want a $50-off voucher?

by kai on 12/04/2010

This is just a quick one. As announced in February I'm going to be and present at WebDU 2010 in Bondi Beach, Sydney. Besides a conference session, I'm running a Day 0 workshop on "befriending regular expressions". The awesome news is, if you read my blog or follow me on Twitter or Facebook - the mighty Geoff from Daemon and myself have decided to throw out a few discount vouchers that save you…

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