MXDU 2006 set for Sydney 2nd-3rd March, 2006
It's the date you've all been waiting for I'm sure ;) MXDU 2006 is going ahead on 2nd-3rd March 2006, again at the spectacular StarCity Sydney. Oh and a workshop day on the 1st March. Set your dates and book your calendars. Little more to tell the public than the date at this stage -- call for papers due out later in the week with more detail.

Comparing ColdFusion to Ruby on Rails
Michael Buffington has been posting his thoughts on transitioning from CF to Ruby on Rails. I've been enjoying the articles but I think things are getting a bit distorted. It's difficult to make comparisons between a framework+language with a language; they're just not the same things.

Mailguard: Spam Canning Solution
We're currently canning 40% of all our email as SPAM. Having tried a lot of different solutions we've settled on Mailguard, an externally hosted mail cleaner that handles viruses, corporate wide email policies and SPAM.

Flash video coming of age
For a company that spends most of its time working with traditional web design and development, we seem to be doing more and more video work for clients. Traditional? Can you use that word for web technology yet? At any rate it looks like video content is fast becoming the norm.