http://blog.monochrome.co.uk Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:46:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Earlier today, via the comments of an earlier post, we received a comment on the recent announcement that Jason Delmore of Adobe was made redundant in a recent set of cutbacks. "Do you have any comments on the Product Manager for Coldfusion being made Redundant at Adobe? I have been developing ... http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2008/12/comments-on-the-future-of-coldfusion/ As promised, here's my presentation slides from MAX Europe last week. http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2008/12/my-scrum-presentation-from-max-europe-2008/ We are increasingly being asked by customers of ours what back-end technology we use for our applications.  Why this is we aren't entirely sure, but it would appear that people are doing their homework a little more than they used to before asking or agencies such as Monochrome to pitch ... http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2008/12/why-monochrome-use-coldfusion/ Like we did last year, we will be providing a UKCFUG meetup to cover stuff from Max Milan. The session will be held at Design UK on Tuesday December the 9th at 7pm. The agenda is as follows: 7.15 - 8.15 : Max De-Brief 8.15 - 8.30 : Break 8.30 - 9.30 : ... http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2008/12/ukcfug-max-de-brief/ Well, here we are sat in one of the latter sessions of this years Adobe MAX Milan conference and it's been an interesting time.  There's been a huge amount of networking going on, as well as a fairly decent lack of some proper sleep.  With over 1400 people present it's ... http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2008/12/monochrome-coming-to-you-from-max-milan-2008/ Both myself and Niklas will be attending (and speaking at) this years MAX conference in Milan next week and are mightily looking forward to it.  In case you're wanting to come and hook up with us, here's our agenda for the three days. If you're in any of the sessions we're ... http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2008/11/where-you-can-find-us-at-max-europe/ Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ll be aware that the HMRC has temporarily reduced the rate from 17.5% with effect from December 1st to 15%. With the current rate having been in place since 1991 companies may find that their legacy applications have had the rate hard coded ... http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2008/11/vat-rate-changes-on-dec-1st-only-5-days/ Adobe have just posted up a load of videos taken at this years MAX conference in San Francisco via their Adobe Developer Connection blog. The videos are: MAX 2008: Adobe kicks off Day 1 in San Francisco keynote highlights MAX 2008: From Adobe Flash Catalyst to Adobe CS4, Day 2 What was your geek-out ... http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2008/11/videos-from-adobe-max-2008/ Hi, I’m Matt Glavin, Business Manager for Monochrome – I joined Monochrome in September of this year to be part of the Rich Internet Application space.  Part of my role for one of the UK’s leading RIA Agencies is to explore new avenues working with Alliance partners to maximise new ... http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2008/11/microsoft-interview-monochrome/ Something we come across a lot when we're talking about Rich Internet Applications is the questions regarding player penetration, i.e how many people have player X installed (Adobe's Flash vs. Microsoft's Silverlight), as it's generally seen as the primary measure for how easy to "see" an application will be. However, something ... http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2008/11/why-player-penetration-isnt-as-important-as-you-might-think/