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ERA France Site Considered “plus Geek” by Real Estate Newspaper


We were happy today at the office when we saw the news from France. Our website was considered in the first 5 best real estate sites in France by L’Express and they qualified us as “plus Geek” which means “more geek” than the others.

Here is the snippet of the news page:

ERA is perhaps the branch network that offers the Web site as “geek”. From the homepage, the map of France gives access to two clicks to ads in a given municipality. We can create RSS feeds and sharing content of an offer by clicking on the icons of social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter … Interest? Seek the advice of his friends on the apartment for which we had the coup de coeur. Since the end of 2009, sellers can create their own website to make themselves promoting their properties (see a fictitious example: www.cyril-maurel.com).

Here is the link to the article:

Les meilleurs sites pour acheter ou vendre un logement

Here is our main portal: ERA Europe

Quick note, our technology: ColdFusion, MS SQL 2005, Ajax, Javascript

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Cumulative Hot Fix 1 for Coldfusion 9


Adobe launched the first Hot Fix for ColdFusion 9.

Update your server here.

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AIR For Android, Adobe Plans To Deliver Apps Across All Mobile Devices


The bane of all mobile app developers is the need to rewrite the same app over and over again for different devices: the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm Pre, Nokia, Windows Mobile. Adobe is positioning its Flash platform (which includes the Flash player, AIR, developer tools, and media servers) as the write-once, deploy-anywhere solution for both the mobile Web and apps. Today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, it will announce plans to bring Adobe AIR to mobile devices, starting with Android and Blackberry phones.

Read more on the TechCrunch website.

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ColdFusion Product Manager Speaks About the Rebirth of the Platform


In this interview, recorded at CFinNC 2009, Dan Wilson speaks with ColdFusion Product Manager Adam Lehman on the rebirth of the ColdFusion platform. Evolving from its early days as a C++ product, to becoming a fully Java-based implementation for the enterprise, ColdFusion today commands a growing community of 800,000 developers. The language-become-platform is being touted by industry pundits not only as a productivity tool for Java but as a viable, standalone solution for building and integrating Rich Internet Applications within an SOA environment.

Watch the full interview at DZone’s site

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Mozilla hosts malware disguised as add-ons


Mozilla confirmed this week that they were not capable of detecting malware disguised as two add-ons for Firefox: Sothink Web Video Downloader 4.0 and Master File. According to the company, the trojan horses infected about 6,600 PCs, but they were already removed from the official add-ons site for Firefox.

You may read more about this matter here:

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Each Minute of Avatar Represents 17.28GB of Data


Avatar’s data center has more than 4,000 HP blade servers, in a 10,000 sqf datacenter in New Zealand (Weta Digital Ltd). They utilized 104TB of RAM with about 35,000 processors.

Each minute of Avatar represents 17.28GB of data.

It is the same company that produced the 3d rendering of Lord of the Rings.

See the complete article at ComputerWorld’s website, it’s very interesting to know what is behind the scenes.

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Actuate Invites Developers to Get BIRT-y with Flash and Flex


SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan 25, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE)

Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTU), the people behind BIRT, today issued a challenge to developers familiar with Adobe or BIRT: to combine BIRT and Adobe technologies in powerful and innovative ways. The Get BIRT-y with Flash and Flex Contest offers a cash prize of up to $5,000 and all winning applications will be listed on the BIRT Exchange Marketplace http://www.birt-exchange.com/marketplace/, an open software showcase on the most active online BIRT community, where any developer can promote, share or sell BIRT-related applications, solutions and components.

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Inventor’s Bike Folds Into Its Own Wheel


From the SkyNews:

Dominic Hargreaves’s bike, The Contortionist, has been shortlisted for this year’s James Dyson Award for innovation. It takes around 20 seconds to fold down. It may bag the young inventor £10,000.
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Google Earth Now Shows The Moon To You


Google has been talking to NASA since 2005 to provide us with views of NASA’s Moon Image Gallery.
Now you can see landing sites, videos, the American flag place  and other stuff on Google Earth.

Download the new version  Google Earth 5.0 here.

Click on the planet icon, select Moon.

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Twitter Is Good For Your Job Search


I read on Network World’s blog an article about how Twitter can help your job search. Recent job posting on Best Buy’s web site prefers candidates with at least 250 followers on Twitter.

A recent job posting on Best Buy Co Inc.’s Web site for a Senior Manager – Emerging Media Marketing position based out of the company’s corporate headquarters in Richfield, Minn. listed two preferred job qualifications: a graduate degree and 250+ followers on Twitter.

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