Sean Corfield's thoughts on Adobe technologies, software design and application frameworks. http://corfield.org I'm posting this as a reminder to myself since I've had to do this twice in the last few weeks and have to Google it each time... To install TrueType Fonts on Linux so that Java can access them ought to be as simple as copying them to $JAVA_HOME/l... http://corfield.org/entry/Installing_Fonts_on_Linux seancorfield 2009-11-07T03:15:00-05:00 coldfusion j2ee oss TechCrunch ran a story yesterday about MFG.com's site overhaul. The new site uses Java and <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/02/mfg-com-takes-off-the-cuffs-with-manufacturing-marketplace-redesign/">took three years for their team to complete... http://corfield.org/entry/Three_Years_to_overhaul_a_website__a_failure seancorfield 2009-11-03T13:35:00-05:00 coldfusion j2ee In the absence of a printable schedule - sorry, Joe Rinehart says it's a problem with the Media3 hosting and he's been trying to get them to fix it for months! - here is my schedule for <a href="http://cfobjective.com/schedule.cfm">cf.Objective() 200... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/My_cfObjective_2009_Schedule seancorfield 2009-05-11T14:54:00-05:00 adobe air architecture cfobjective coldbox coldfusion coldspring flex iphone j2ee jquery machii orm oss ria saas swiz tdd Update: The Java 6 class loader bug mentioned in this post was fixed in Update 10. I just upgraded a 64-bit Red Hat Linux server to Java 6 Update 11 and changed the <tt>jvm.config</tt> file to specify the new JDK's jre directory for <tt>java.home</tt... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Java_6_and_ColdFusion_8 seancorfield 2009-01-14T21:31:00-05:00 j2ee coldfusion I'm already used to the magic that is Transfer and I can't imagine building a ColdFusion application without it. Adobe have said they're looking at integrating Hibernate into "Centaur" and showed some simple examples of how it might work in their key... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Hibernate_and_Inheritance seancorfield 2008-09-07T19:20:00-05:00 grails j2ee orm Since I have a fairly large body of very smart readers, I figured I could ask <strong>you</strong> a question and have you help me for a change :) I have a bunch of data in a database encrypted via ColdFusion and I need to figure out the exact Jav... http://corfield.org/entry/Help_Encryption_Question seancorfield 2008-08-12T23:02:00-05:00 coldfusion j2ee Vince Bonfanti hosted a Birds of a Feather session this evening where he officially unveiled the <a href="http://openbluedragon.org/">Open BlueDragon project</a>. [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Open_BlueDragon_at_cfObjective seancorfield 2008-05-03T23:31:00-05:00 oss openbd j2ee coldfusion cfobjective bluedragon The latest software update for Mac OS X 10.5.2 adds Java 1.6.0_05 but does not change your default setup. See <a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307403">this tech note</a> for more details. I haven't yet switched to Java 6 as ... http://corfield.org/entry/Java_6_just_arrived_on_Leopard seancorfield 2008-04-30T10:51:00-05:00 coldfusion j2ee osx If you use Mark Mandel's awesome <a href="http://www.transfer-orm.com/">Transfer ORM</a> in a cluster, you've probably wondered what to do about keeping the cache in sync across servers in the cluster. I've had to solve this problem a couple of times... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Transfer_Cache_Synchronization_in_a_Cluster seancorfield 2008-04-14T20:56:00-05:00 architecture cfobjective coldfusion coldspring j2ee orm oss Andrew Powell - <a href="http://cfobjective.com/sessions_architecture.cfm#SA3A">Enterprise Class MVC with ColdFusion and Java</a> - Saturday 11:25am We hear a lot of talk about using individual Java objects within ColdFusion but the reality of ent... http://corfield.org/entry/cfObjective_2008_Session_Focus__Enterprise_Class_MVC_with_ColdFusion_and_Java seancorfield 2008-03-31T02:37:00-05:00 architecture cfobjective coldfusion j2ee machii So I was gave a design patterns presentation at both MAXs... I figured I'd Google to see if I could find any coverage of it (no, I couldn't) and what turned up was <a href="http://corfield.org/entry/Design_Patterns_in_ColdFusion_1">my own blog post</... http://corfield.org/entry/History_Repeats seancorfield 2007-10-19T23:57:00-05:00 adobemax07 architecture coldfusion j2ee These days, ColdFusion developers generally understand the benefits gained in the rewrite from C++ to Java that happened with the shift from ColdFusion 5 to ColdFusion MX and we're continuing to see an uptick in interest for running scripting languag... http://corfield.org/entry/Benefits_of_running_on_Java seancorfield 2007-08-06T19:45:00-05:00 coldfusion j2ee I'd never really given much thought to running Java on a shared environment (because I'd never write a web app in JSP when there are more productive options). Turns out that <a href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/flozano/archive/2007/07/shared_web_hos... http://corfield.org/entry/Java_and_Shared_Hosting seancorfield 2007-07-31T10:43:00-05:00 coldfusion j2ee The JRun team asked me to post an invitation to join the beta program for the next version of JRun: <blockquote> The beta release of the next version of the JRun appserver, code named Cheetah, is available. The Adobe JRun Team is inviting serious ... http://corfield.org/entry/Adobe_JRun__Beta_Program seancorfield 2006-05-02T10:46:00-05:00 adobe j2ee TheServerSide notes that <a href="http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=37021">the JRun team are running a survey</a> for information about your current usage and what you'd like to see in the next release. If you're using JRun for J... http://corfield.org/entry/JRun_Survey_for_next_release seancorfield 2005-10-10T17:11:00-05:00 j2ee