http://blog.daemon.com.au/ Team daemon development blog. en-au modius 2010-09-01T09:51:25+10:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 One week in and the Winter Olympics website is running very smoothly. For the current Olympic Quad, Daemon are building all Australian Olympic Team sites on Adobe ColdFusion and FarCry CMS. Vancouver 2010's been a challenge but its great to see it all humming away in the middle of the Winter Games. http://blog.daemon.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=EA8E5476-1C4D-11DF-923A00D0B74CCD1A Daemonite 2010-02-18T16:24:00+10:00 Fresh from the resounding success that was webDU 2009, we are raring to go for webDU 2010. If you have something new and revolutionary, some tricks of the trade to share, want to help your fellow developers or you're just pure passionate for web technology, don't miss your chance to take part in webDU 2010. http://blog.daemon.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=39B53E7E-FA5F-11DE-B15200D0B74CCD1A Daemonite 2010-01-06T12:02:00+10:00 Mat Bryant (Lead Author) and Geoff Bowers (self-styled Benevolent Dictator) spent all of 11 November talking to a rabid audience about FarCry's past, present and future. And believe me, the future's so bright, we're all wearing shades around the office. http://blog.daemon.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=4E65722E-FA5C-11DE-B15200D0B74CCD1A Daemonite 2010-01-06T11:42:00+10:00 10-13 November 2009 is shaping up to be a week of ColdFusion in Australia; the Forta is in town, FarCry DevCamp, and cf.Objective ANZ conference. Antipodean ColdFusion renaissance or what!? http://blog.daemon.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=6FD6A6DE-C790-11DE-99F500D0B74CCD1A Daemonite 2009-11-02T20:16:00+10:00 Gave two short talks at OZIA 2009 this year; UNSWTV: Publishing Everywhere at Once & Content Objects. The presentations might be a little obtuse in isolation but happy to answer comments if folks have questions. http://blog.daemon.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=1E3192B3-BA32-11DE-A85400D0B74CCD1A Daemonite 2009-10-16T18:58:00+10:00 Recently participated in a great little panel discussing upcoming Adobe releases, local case studies and general geek gabbing. AdobeRefreshTV is an initiative by the local Adobe APAC team to engage the developer community. It's been a little while coming, but its great to see this vodcast live. http://blog.daemon.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=78F7C59E-A81F-11DE-BCAA00D0B74CCD1A Daemonite 2009-09-23T18:59:00+10:00 Saw a recent post from Ray Camden on Yahoo Query Language. Thought I might add that there were a couple of good sessions on Yahoo Pipes and YQL available at the webdu conference, including a YQL overview in the podcast. http://blog.daemon.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=C51E23FA-A186-11DE-855F00D0B74CCD1A Daemonite 2009-09-15T09:31:00+10:00 Decided to move the webdu conference session podcast to Amazon S3 to improve download performance. Thought it would be cool to put together a custom tag that dynamically builds an iTunes feed from the S3 bucket list XML. http://blog.daemon.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=E6738FEE-76A8-11DE-BC1700D0B74CCD1A Daemonite 2009-07-22T20:17:00+10:00 webDU was another awesome experience this year. Been reminiscing while listening to the high-quality, audio podcast of sessions I missed and the sessions I just had to hear all over again. http://blog.daemon.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=4411B05E-7117-11DE-898F00D0B74CCD1A Daemonite 2009-07-15T18:12:00+10:00 Adobe Connect is a great tool for running online meet-ups of all sorts. You can record and play-back the meeting through Adobe Connect itself, but it's often desirable to do a bit of post production before you distribute your recording to a wider, more discerning, audience; clean-up the video, edit out the bloopers, trim down the waffle and so on. http://blog.daemon.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=DA066C3E-6F7E-11DE-898F00D0B74CCD1A Daemonite 2009-07-13T17:29:00+10:00 Daemon does a lot of time and materials work for clients from operational support and maintenance through to feature development. If you're not careful you can die from a thousand cuts as you keep estimating work that folks never follow through with. http://blog.daemon.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=70B56ECF-6C22-11DE-898F00D0B74CCD1A Daemonite 2009-07-09T10:50:00+10:00 While development on the next version of FarCry 5.2 has been proceeding at a furious pace, there has been a whole raft of small fixes, and enhancements for the current FarCry 5.1 release. Get the latest cumulative roll-up of enhancements, bug fixes and tweaks. http://blog.daemon.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=EBFB5796-6235-11DE-969800D0B74CCD1A Daemonite 2009-06-26T19:44:00+10:00 While not specifically anti-IE, most web developers are nearly all pro web standards.  By and large the developers I jostle with are building in some incarnation of gecko or webkit. Then it's hack and slay till it's tamed to work with IE in order to satisfy some random stake-holder.  The mounting frustration inevitably leads web developers to use their influence to reduce IE's footprint. http://blog.daemon.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=4B62BFF0-FAF4-11DD-809500D0B74CCD1A Daemonite 2009-02-15T11:05:00+10:00 We've recently released another public beta for FarCry 5.1. There's a full community distro, complete with FarCry CMS for your installing pleasure. What was originally just a series of UI improvements, i18n updates and friendly URLs overhaul has blossomed into a very significant release - over 200 issues resolved. http://blog.daemon.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=22FAA032-DC8E-11DD-85C400D0B74CCD1A Daemonite 2009-01-07T18:38:00+10:00 The webDU 2009 Call For Papers is open. If you'd like to be a speaker at our annual, antipodean, web gab-fest in Sydney feel free to throw your hat in the ring. On the other hand, if you "like to watch", be part of our social, agenda building experiment at UserVoice. http://blog.daemon.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=2102EBF0-BDDB-11DD-BA0E00D0B74CCD1A Daemonite 2008-11-29T17:01:00+10:00