Mark Szulc's ideas, comments, presentations and history http://www.markszulc.com/ http://www.markszulc.com MarkSzulc.com has been migrated to WordPress. This will be the last post to this feed. To view the new site and associated feeds, browse here: <a href="http://www.markszulc.com/blog/">http://www.markszulc.com/blog/</a> http://www.markszulc.com Hmm.. so first the airlines want to stop all laptops on planes, and now thanks to Sony (yes Sony made the bad batch of batteries for Dell) i'm allowed to take my laptop on the plane, but not use it in case the battery catches on fire! http://www.markszulc.com Hi to everyone who joined me today for the "Introduction to Flex 2" Breeze presentation. As promised, the completed demo app is available here: <a href="http://www.markszulc.com/demo/simplephoneapp/PhoneDemoApp.html">http://www.markszulc.com/demo/simplephoneapp/PhoneDemoApp.html</a> <br> Make sure you Right-Click on the app and view the source!<br><br> btw - for those of you who tuned in to see <a href="http://www.flexdaddy.info/">FlexDaddy</a> and were sadly disapointed, Andrew could not make it due to a family emergency. He will return tho! http://www.markszulc.com Interested in <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/">Adobe Flex 2</s>? Join Adobe Australia's very own <a href="http://www.flexdaddy.info/">FlexDaddy</a> Andrew Spaulding for an <a href="http://events.adobe.co.uk/events/cgi/event.cgi?eventid=3729&country=pa">upcoming online live seminar on Flex 2</a>. http://www.markszulc.com My first <a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/">DevNet (Adobe Developer Center)</a> post is now online. This tutorial covers the use of <a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/route_form_manager.html" />LiveCycle Workflow to route forms to a user's manager.</a>. This hopefully will be the first of many more posts, assuming I can find the time. If you have an idea for an article let me know! http://www.markszulc.com Ben Forta has posted a great <a href="http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/7/27/cf_pdfform">new blog entry for ColdFusion users looking to take advantage of LiveCycle PDF Forms</a>. The article describes how to extract or embed XML data into a PDF Form created using LiveCycle Designer using ColdFusion tags. http://www.markszulc.com Cool use of <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/flashpro/">Adobe Flash</a> and Flash Video at <a href="http://www.linkinpark.com">LinkinPark.com</a> (one of my favourite bands. <br><br>Speaking of favourite bands, i watch <a href="http://www.eskimojoe.net">Eskimo Joe</a> play live on the weekend once again.. fantastic as usual! http://www.markszulc.com Back home in Sydney, back to "proper" work and already half way through the week!<br><br> Jet lag is slowly fading ( i knew i shouldnt have slept in till 2pm on Saturday) but the 6am starts have pulled me back in line quickly. http://www.markszulc.com Spent the day browsing the gadgets stores of Singapore before returning to my hotel room to catch up on email (almost there!). Singapore has the coolest shopping malls, my favourite being <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim_Lim_Square">Sim Lim Square</a>, a 6 storey complex packed with cameras, computers, software, cables, cases, power supplies.. you name it, if its slightly techy then its in this place. <br><br> So what did i buy? Nothing special; A 4 port USB2 hub, 1Gb MMC card and a headphone cable that allows a set of normal headphones to plug into my Nokia N70 (farewell iPod Shuffle). http://www.markszulc.com This morning I was woken after only 4 hours of sleep in Singapore to hear French supporters 16 floors below me cheer at the 1st French goal of the World Cup Final. Little did they know what was to come!. I ended up staying awake to watch the rest of the game, and by that time it was time to get up! <br>This World Cup has been interesting.. my first reminder that the games had begun was one night in June when i was woken up by hooligans in Melbourne. Following that, our friendly Qantas pilot was announcing Australian WC game scores as we flew from Sydney to Singapore almost 4 weeks ago. We caught an English game in a small little pub in Cornwall (they get very passionate about football in Cornwall) and then watched Australia make it to the quarter finals in an Australian Pub in Swansea, Wales. All the locals were shouting "we want the convicts to win!!" :-)<br><br>Dissapointment came when Italy were wrongfully awarded a penalty in the last minute of the game that mean that Australia would go no further. Ruth and I were in Lodz, Poland, in the hotel room pacing.. not being able to understand a word the Polish commentators were saying, except for the odd "Vaadooookkaaa". Understandably we were even more depressed when we spent the final night before leaving with my Polish family.<br><br>Apart from that, we saw England lose (a Mark lose $70), and the next day France win while in Paris, then spent two nights with Adobe collegues some from France, some from Germany jump and down and scream as their teams did there best. <br><br>Quite an experience really.. can't wait for the next World Cup.. i'll have to go to Europe again!