blog-j: Symbolizing, Coding, Objectifying, Processing

…don’t try to reinvent the wheel.

They try to reinvent the rock.

Bad experience with some legacy applications. Argh.

I held a new life in my hands.

Happy 1rst Birthday, Phillip James Nussbaum.

Quick shout out of congratulations to Shawn Pucknell and his wife Mindy, who gave birth to a happy and healthy baby girl last week (just 3 days after the FITC!!). They’ve named the baby Mya.

Which brings the male/female ratio at Shawns’ place to 1 : 4. Good luck, Shawn!

For those of you that don’t know, Shawn organizes the FITC each year…more info about the FITC @ fitc.ca.

It seems Adobe has bought Macromedia. To quote Frank Barrone…”Holy Crap!.”

It’ll be interesting to see what this does to their product lines. Adobe Flash? Adobe ColdFusion? Looks like Fireworks may go the way of the dodo (though that’s just speculation on my part…).

I do think this is actually a good thing for all us Macromedia junkies. Adobe will continue to deliver the Macromedia “vision”, and the product offering will only get better (not that it wouldn’t without this, obviously…looking at 8Ball demos should make anyone aware of that fact). I would certainly expect that the cross-product integration will become much smoother, which is a plus for all involved.

More info here (Macromedia press room), here (Adobe press room), and here (Mike Chambers).

…starts tomorrow. I’m not going to be there on Saturday, but I will be there Sunday and Monday. If you happen to be there, drop by and say hi…I’ll be floating around.

I am very much looking forward to it. The festival promises to be one of the (if not the) best of the year.

Get more info @ fitc.ca.

When using Flash Remoting with CF, the Remoting Services window in Flash incorrectly reports the required attribute of a method parameter if the ‘required’ attribute of the parameter is set to ‘yes’ in ColdFusion. It seems that while CF happily accepts yes/no in place of true/false, Flash doesn’t like it.

Long story short - when intercommunicating with Flash, use true/false, not yes/no.