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If you can make use of any of these books, and are willing to pick up in Melbourne or pay the postage, give me a yell and they’re yours. PHP Black Book **TAKEN ** MySQL (3/4 I think) Active Server Pages 3.0 (Knox) Core Java 2 **TAKEN ** Programming Rich Clients with Flex **TAKEN ** Related posts:Free Trade my eye… Guilt-free Shinyness [ READ MORE ]
It’s been under wraps for a while but we’re finally ready to announce it – the premier enterprise ColdFusion conference – cfObjective() – is coming to Australia! More specifically it will be held in Melbourne on the 11th and 12th of November 2009. It’s a 2 day event packed to the hilt with advanced level content No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
Magnificent news today – Adobe and Apple are have actually confirmed they’re working together on getting flash onto the iPhone! I don’t know if I’m behind the times or anything but it’s news to me so I just had to blog about it. Of course we’ve known since last year that at least Adobe was Related posts:Flash search engine crawlable Christmas is coming [ READ MORE ]
as you can see the blog looks really crappy again. I’ve just moved servers and took the opportunity to upgrade to the current version of blogcfc, so when I get around to it I’ll modify the templates again to make it look pretty Tweet This Post Related posts:New Blog Move over Digikam [ READ MORE ]
Sigh. Once again the telco’s in Australia have utterly screwed the pooch. Check out this summary of just how messed up it it. I was going to order one of these tomorrow – now I’ll wait. Tweet This Post No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
In the last 7 years, my coffee machine as it turns out has made 9,869 coffees. That’s… a lot of coffee. Bought in September 2000 it’s one of my favourite purchases, and even though I’m drinking more tea than coffee lately it’s still awesome to have a machine that makes great coffee from No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
It’s called Protocol Buffers and apparently is what Google developed and use to handle the data within their enormous systems. Will be interesting for hardcore geeks, and might also be handy if implemented for remoting or webservices somehow. If anyone’s playing with this, let me know. Tweet This Post Related posts:Flex goes open source! Flex Data Services on OSX [ READ MORE ]
Check it out here in the Adobe press release: Adobe makes Flash crawlab;e This is a great step, and really encouraging to see. Between this and the work being done with google analytics etc flash is becoming more and more viable for content delivery on the web. One thing that irritates me though is the uninformed Related posts:Flash – coming to an iPhone near you [ READ MORE ]
My apologies to those who were waiting for this – here are the slides from my talk at scotch this year. I’ve exported them to a pdf to avoid issues between keynote / powerpoint etc. Download the Slides I hope they’re of some use – as always feel free to give me a yell with any Related posts:Speaking at Scotch on the Rocks Belated Scotch post [ READ MORE ]
Ben Forta has blogged regarding the recently announced CFML Language Advisory Committee – a very good read. Despite some cattiness and mild fundamentalism in the comments it’s worth checking out – I’m very glad to see this happening, and will be keeping a close eye on progress, getting involved in any way I can. Congrats Related posts:language critique, etc [ READ MORE ]