Archive: January 2013

6 posts

Adobe Connect (hosted): make sure your user profile timezone is correct

by kai on 18/01/2013

The other day I was helping a client who are using Adobe Connect (hosted on the Adobe servers) and experienced an issue with scheduling meetings. What was basically happening was that when they scheduled a meeting it would always be created in US Pacific time. I do have admin access to their hosted Connect account, so I quickly tried it and (obviously :-) it worked fine for me. The timezone…

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Two tips to make Railo 4's default installation more secure

by kai on 16/01/2013

You might have read my recent post about installing Railo 4 on a Debian server. Post-install I did a bit of clean up and also used Pete Freitag's excellent hackmycf.com against that server. Many people might not know that it does support checking Railo servers as well as Adobe ColdFusion servers. Two interesting things popped up: 1. Server Header Version Disclosure - what that essentially means…

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Trying to explain why I'm not an ACP anymore

by kai on 14/01/2013

Recently a few people started to realise that I'm not an ACP (Adobe Community Professional) anymore and asked me why. This is going to be an explanation of how it came to this situation from my point of view. I want to make it very clear that I'm not looking back in anger and that this is not a revenge blog post or anything alike. I am still involved with Adobe in certain aspects both from a…

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Time travel

by kai on 13/01/2013

About 10 years ago, Diane and I went to Australia for the first time ever. There will probably be a special blog post to celebrate the occasion at some stage in February. Today I just got reminded of the trip because an "anonymous friend" of mine sent me this: Now go back in time to that elevator in King's Cross and say: "one day in 10 years time, when Diane and I are living in New Zealand,…

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Installing Railo 4.0.2 on Debian

by kai on 13/01/2013

I recently installed Railo 4.0.2 on a Debian server and it was an absolutely smooth ride. I essentially followed the installation guide provided in the Railo wiki. It's really straight forward, but let's go through the steps. Start here: Installation:InstallerDocumentation:LinLaunching Most likely (on a web server environment) you won't have a UI available to you. You can grab the installer with…

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And Adobe does it again - pulling Touch Apps without telling their community

by kai on 12/01/2013

Maybe I should rather say "community" as sometimes it seems to me that there's not a great deal left of the Adobe's involvement with their community. The story in short, PR-blurb is that they are "refocusing ... Touch App development". In case you don't speak PR-blurb, this means that Adobe Debut, Adobe Collage, Adobe Proto and the Android versions of Adobe Ideas and Adobe Kuler are dead. The…

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