Archive: August 2012

10 posts

Creating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for Adobe Connect

by kai on 26/08/2012

The other day, I wrote about setting up stunnel for Adobe Connect. When I did the SSL setup for the client I was working with on that occasion, we also had to get the SSL certificate created. The Adobe Connect installation of the client is entirely internal and not used outside their organisation. The way they deal with SSL certificates in similar scenarios is not to buy certificates from an…

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Kai's other blog: Kais bewegtes Web

by kai on 23/08/2012

I'm actually not sure who and how many of you reading this and following Blog in Black can read German, but I've been told Google Translate is doing a reasonably nice job nowadays when it comes to automated translations. I've got another (German only) blog: Kais bewegtes Web. It's part of the Heise Developer channel; Heise is a large German publishing house that produces very, very awesome IT…

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2DDU (2 developers down under) podcast episode 24: group chat

by kai on 22/08/2012

Mark and I are on a roll. Episode 24 of our 2DDU (2 developers down under) podcast is live. Yesterday morning we spent about 50 minutes talking to Andrew Mercer, Justin McLean and Richard Turner-Jones about various technology and development topics. All three of them are speakers at cf.Objective(ANZ) in November and we interviewed them about their sessions, but also talked about various other…

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Adobe Connect 8 SSL - getting stunnel up and running

by kai on 22/08/2012

Today I was helping a client to setup proper SSL handling for their Adobe Connect 8 instance. Essentially all they wanted to do was to secure the Adobe Connect web admin with SSL and https; the actual Flash Media Server-based meeting server and its RTMP communication wasn't going to be secured at this stage. The software-based SSL for Adobe Connect 8 is delivered via stunnel, a packaged…

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2DDU (2 developers down under) podcast episode 23 is live

by kai on 16/08/2012

Mark Mandel and I have recorded episode 23 of the 2DDU (2 developers down under) podcast this morning. It's now live on our podcast website for listening or download.

Topics we covered this time:


Make sure you check it out. We're actually super-awesome and very entertaining :-)

Accessing .properties files within a Livecycle ES/ADEP DSC

by kai on 12/08/2012

The other day Darren asked about how to access a properties file with some settings from within a Livecycle ES resp. ADEP DSC on the livecycle developers mailing list. I responded there, but I thought it'd be useful to post the solution here as well. Essentially a Livecycle/ADEP DSC is nothing else but a .jar file that's been crafted in a certain way. Darren wanted to have the .properties file…

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Debugging Livecycle Data Services in Livecycle ES

by kai on 10/08/2012

The other day I was spending some time with a client of mine who ran into an issue with a Flex Remoting endpoint in Livecycle/ADEP Essentially what happened was that within an object tree supposed to be sent from the Flex application to a Livecycle endpoint contained a lot of unexpected null references. Monitoring the AMF remoting traffic with Charles showed however that the data was serialised…

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Wellington Adobe meetups successfully moved - what's on in August and September?

by kai on 07/08/2012

Just a quick update that both Wellington-based (this is Wellington in New Zealand, in case anyone wonders) Adobe meetups have now finally moved away from the Adobe groups site and various Google groups (the old Flex/Flash Platform Group) and are now consolidated on meetup.com: Creative Suite User Group Wellington and Wellington Adobe Web Technology Meetup The main reason why we moved off Adobe…

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CFML - alive and kicking at CFCamp and CFAcademy in Germany

by kai on 06/08/2012

Quite often one is told that ColdFusion is dead, old and proprietary. That's actually not quite true even though I can see where people are coming from - ColdFusion doesn't seem to be as posh and fancy as the poster children of web development such as Rails and Node. Fair enough. However, there's more to CFML than just only Adobe ColdFusion. A lot of people don't even know that there are two well…

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Direct Download Links for (older versions of) Adobe ColdFusion and others

by kai on 06/08/2012

I just figured it'd be a good idea to create a quick blog post about how to find and download older versions of Adobe software. I got inspired by Robin Hilliard asking for a Solaris installer for ColdFusion 8 the other day on the cfaussie mailing list. He got lucky and Richard Turner-Jones from Adobe AU managed to get him an installer from an internal Adobe server, but what could average Joe…

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