LiveCycle Workbench on Vista? .. not really
Last week I did a LiveCycle training for one of Australia's banks in India. Since LC 8.2 had been released and with that a great new version of Adobe's 'LiveCycle Building Appliciations' course, I needed to reinstall everything on my notebook. I completely neglected the fact that the workbench is not supported on Vista and just installed everything. Well .. it's not only not supported, it doesn't work.
Or does it?
well .. kinda. Everything works (at least as far as I could test). The only problem is that the display of the editor view doesn't work. I can select activities, change them etc. I just can't see them.
I'm planning to do some more tests to see if I can get this to work, but for now, if you run Vista (at least on a Lenovo Thinkpad T60p) don't bother installing the workbench.
The beginning..
I had never thought it would come to this.
I have (to put it mildly) not been a big fan of blogging. There are 2 main reasons for that. One is that I'm lazy (which still is a major thread to the survival of this experiment), and the second is that I just didn't 'get' this blogging thing, in the same way that I still don't 'get' this whole web 2.0 thing.
Two weeks ago I was in New Zealand for the Web on the Piste conference (perfectly organized by the guys from Straker Interactive and the guys from Gruden), where I did a session on Flex applications using LiveCycle Data Services and a ColdFusion backend. Someone who had attended my session came to me and asked me "Do you blog?". My response was "no, I don't".
Last week I was in Bangalore, India, where I did a week of 'Flex Train the Trainer' for Adobe India. One of the delegates of the training asked me "Do you blog?". "Nope", I said. "You should" was his reply.
So for those two guys (and my mother) I have decided to give it a try.
That decision left me with a whole new set of problems. First of all: Software. I remembered attending a session done by Laura Arguello of ASFusion a few months earlier at the FlexManiacs conference in Washington DC, where she mentioned their new Blog product, named Mango Blog. In short, I liked it.
Next problem: A title. Blogs have cool and catchy titles and now I needed one too.
Let me take you back to Queenstown, New Zealand, the Web on the Piste Conference.
One of the gold sponsors was Microsoft, so they had sent a bunch of their guys to do some sessions. One of the guys was a MS Evangelist (they have 'em too!). He started his session (that I really enjoyed) with showing an episode of 'Ask a Ninja'. In short, I choose the title because it doesn't make any sense, like this whole web 2.0 thing doesn't make any sense to me.
