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To round off round one, here is the answer to question four. On the night this went to the Framed team, who wrote a very elegant OO solution in Java (several people have made comments to this effect since the night)....more

So as I said, this problem is related to the ASCII decoding problem from the final last year. The key to solving the problem is coming up with the correct interpretation of “Checkerboard”....more

And so it continues... hope you had fun with the last question, there are a few approaches and the two teams were quite different on the night....more

Ok, here's a solution to the previous question using cfscript — made slightly more complex by case insensitive character comparisons:

communique = "Hvs sbsam wg qcawbu! Twbr gvszhsf pm hvs POF";
la = asc('a'); lz = asc('z&a...more

		

		

Want to see how you might have fared in this year's Code War competition? I'll be posting the questions up over the next few days for you to try out....more

Apologies for the delay in the results, but we have been caught up in the wonder of WebDU for the last two days and this is the first opportunity to let you know what happened....more

Across the continents, programmers watch the skies. Very soon, a few of their intrepid peers will rise into that blue vaulted arena, slipping the surly bonds of Earth to dance among the Internet clouds on laughter-silvered circuit boards....more

Yes it's on again, bigger, better, and geekier! Brush off your combat keyboards and put a big red circle around May 20 in the time management tool of your choice, it's time to sort out the ANZ user groups code war champion for 2009....more

Yes, in just 24 hours Code War will be kicking off, so we thought it might be time to announce the final team list:

CFBoff - All Your Code Are Belong To Us! ( Coastal Queensland )

• Jason S
• Wayne M
• Ricardo R
• Johanes S

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Think those coffee-sipping Mexican ActionScripters in Toorak need to be cut down to size?

Or perhups you'd like to show the "big western island" how it's done?

Well here's your chance to do all the ab...more

When you last heard from me I was about to wing my way to Las Vegas to attend MAX.  Some weeks have passed and I'm still in MAX mode.  Currently I'm in Singapore touring as a speaker with MAX Asia....more

Our own client, the FRAME Group, and AFR Access Now in my reckoning with only two finalists this is a bronze - which should have entailed a parade over the Harbour Bridge with a half-decent flypast, but Australians are a bit spoilt by our Olympic swimming team and most of our airforce are busy do...more

There is currently a thread on cfaussie "Fullasagoog a waste of time" regarding the relevence of posts in Fullasagoog's ColdFusion blend feed. Currently when Geoff adds a blog to the Goog the entire blog is categorised as ColdFusion, Flash, or whatever....more

New Rocketeer: Richard Turner-Jones

Hi all, just a quick entry to let the Adobe blog-o-sphere know that I'm now onboard as a consultant for Rocketboots....more

Drum roll please......more

All entrants also receive a copy of the lovingly crafted and highly desirable Flex 2 reference poster.

Good Luck!

Robin

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I know you're out there, feverishly working on your projects and perhaps you've lost track of the date - but you only have a few days to get your entries in!

Have a look at some of the entries so far.

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The entries are starting to roll in for the rest of world Flex developer competition, and I have to say many of them are pretty amazing! We will be getting the competition site up over the next week so that you can see the entries....more

Want to strut your Flex 2 stuff but don't live in the US or Canada (excluding Quebec - what did they do to deserve that)?

RocketBoots is proud to announce the RocketBoots R.O.W. Flex Developer Space Race, with 6 x 2Gb iPod Nanos and global fame up for grabs....more

How many classes extend flash.events.EventDispatcher in the Flex 2 API? Webdu attendees know the answer is 318, thanks of course to the spectacular Flex 2 API Quick Reference poster they got in their goody bags....more

Breaking news in the lead-up to Webdu - my talk is now going to be about ColdFusion development instead of Flash unit testing, to help Geoff balance the number of presentations in each conference stream....more

Hello!

Well, it's been a much longer break in transmission than I would have liked, but things have been very busy here (or at least wherever I happen to have been) over the last two months....more

The next time you and a friend have a few spare minutes there's a very cool, freshly released FlashCom game you should try out.

RocketBoots was approached by Saatchi & Saatchi a few months back to help out with a viral marketing campaign for one of their clients....more

Hi all. We thought we’d better let you know about some changes here at RocketBoots.

We’ve had a great first year in business but as the company has grown we’ve encountered a bit of a dilemma....more

Want the inside word about who's talking about you in their podCast this week? Well I just found a really cool way you can find out....more

In keeping with the Macromedia schwag baton passing tradition (after I was handed it this morning by Guy Watson) I am happy to announce that i'm the first entrant from the last "official olympic" host country to enter the schwag arena....more

Geoff Bowers and Nick McNaughton will be presenting tonight with Geoff's presentation being broadcast via Breeze to other Australian CFUGs....more

I've just finished listening to the Macromedia Developer Relations team's first talking book (aka known as a PodCast to the iPod endowed) and I have to say that i'm very impressed with their inagural effort....more

I'm sure some of you have heard the name Zorn doing the rounds lately, and know a few of you have been scratching your heads wondering what all the hype is all about....more

Hello poetry lovers everywhere,

Don't read this post. For the rest of you, I couldn't resist having a crack at the prestigious Turdhead actionscript poetry prize....more

Hey, is everyone getting excited? Less than a fortnight to MXDU 2005, and from all indications so far its going to be a bloody ripper :-) I love the superhero characters Nectarine have whipped up this year - ColdFusion's hair is great, his quiff looks like it came out of a soft-serve machine at a...more

The code from Friday's ANZ Community Seminar on building RIAs with the Cairngorm framework is ready for download. Cairngorm is a really useful MVC framework for developing RIAs, created by the team at iteration::two based on their experiences over the last few years....more

Hello,

Just a quick announcement - tomorrow at 3pm Australian Eastern Standard Time I'll be presenting the January Macromeida ANZ Community talk. The topic is building applications in Flex using iteration::two's Cairngorm framework....more

Generally speaking, they all follow similar formats - meet, greet, watch, listen, learn, network, drink, eat, drink and get little-to-no sleep....more