Sean Corfield's thoughts on Adobe technologies, software design and application frameworks. http://corfield.org In an effort to get some adoption of its Silverlight player, Microsoft signed a deal with NBC to make Silverlight the exclusive delivery channel for online video of the Olympics. I'm not much of a sports fan so it doesn't give me any incentive to ... http://corfield.org/entry/Microsoft_forcefeeding_you_Silverlight_via_the_Olympics seancorfield 2008-08-10T12:15:00-05:00 adobe microsoft As folks know, I bought Vista to run on VMware Fusion on my MacBook Pro. I'd felt it was slow and bloated but I figured I'd give it a good run to really make up my mind. What I like about Vista: [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Vista_Upgraded seancorfield 2008-01-30T18:35:00-05:00 bluedragon coldfusion microsoft As regular readers know, I've been running Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate for quite a while now so I can have a full local Windows development environment (ColdFusion 8, BlueDragon.NET 7 and MS SQL Server Express). Despite my general grumbles about... http://corfield.org/entry/Windows_Productivity seancorfield 2007-11-19T18:18:00-05:00 microsoft personal Adobe updated its <a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/activecontent/">Active Content Developer Center</a> a week or so back to reflect Microsoft's recent announcement that it "plans to remove the activation behavior from Internet Explorer in April 2... http://corfield.org/entry/Click_to_Activate_will_be_Deactivated seancorfield 2007-11-19T18:02:00-05:00 adobe microsoft Yes Virginia, you can run multiple copies of Vista on a Mac at the same time! I've been happily running VMware Fusion for the last few days with Vista up pretty much continuously (14 hours, 21 minutes uptime currently) and I'm pleasantly surprised... http://corfield.org/entry/Seeing_double_with_Vista__scary seancorfield 2007-08-09T21:00:00-05:00 microsoft osx personal As you might have gathered from my recent posts, I'm trying to set up a full-blown development environment on Vista, just to see how I get on and to compare it with my regular development environment on OS X. Having beaten SQL Server Express into ... http://corfield.org/entry/Vista_IIS7_and_BlueDragon seancorfield 2007-08-08T17:27:00-05:00 bluedragon coldfusion microsoft What a pain in the ass this has been! I've never dealt with Microsoft SQL Server before but now that Vista runs acceptably on VMware Fusion, I figured that it would be a good opportunity to install SQL Server Express as a test database. The download ... http://corfield.org/entry/SQL_Server_Express_and_Remote_Access seancorfield 2007-08-08T02:10:00-05:00 coldfusion microsoft So, Microsoft has released Silverlight? WPF/E renamed. What is it really like for a non-Windows user? I went to the MS Silverlight page and it wanted to show me a video - but I have to "click here to download" so I clicked and got a blank screen. I w... http://corfield.org/entry/Silverlight seancorfield 2007-04-18T02:05:00-05:00 adobe microsoft IMified is a great service - they just added the ability to have text reminders sent to your cell phone if you're not on IM - but <a href="http://blog.imified.com/index.php/2007/02/14/msn-says-no-to-imified/">Microsoft won't allow them to have more t... http://corfield.org/entry/AOL_Google_and_Yahoo_say_Yes_Microsoft_says_No seancorfield 2007-02-15T14:01:00-05:00 coldfusion microsoft In light of the chatter on some ColdFusion mailing lists about the IE Update, I thought that rather than believe what I was reading, I would try it out for myself. I have Windows XP running (on Virtual PC, for testing) so I installed the IE Update... http://corfield.org/entry/IE_Update_and_ColdFusion_MX_7 seancorfield 2006-04-04T17:37:00-05:00 coldfusion microsoft An interesting article on the Living Without Microsoft site asks <a href="http://www.livingwithoutmicrosoft.org/archives/2005/12/15/16">how close are we to being able to work without desktop applications</a>? The article offers suggestions for web-ba... http://corfield.org/entry/Living_Without_the_Desktop seancorfield 2005-12-17T13:42:00-05:00 microsoft hosted oss Ben Forta asks <a href="http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2005/12/9/ColdFusion-Exchange-Integration">what that integration means for you</a>? Pop on over to his blog and tell him what you'd like to see as he gathers feedback for potential features ... http://corfield.org/entry/Integrate_with_Microsoft_Exchange_Server seancorfield 2005-12-09T18:32:00-05:00 coldfusion microsoft So there's some buzz out there about something called <a href="http://www.live.com/">Windows Live</a>. Click. Wait. Hmm, a search bar. And? Nothing. No message, no other text - just a white screen with a search bar. I type something in and click "Sea... http://corfield.org/entry/Windows_Live_What seancorfield 2005-11-01T23:42:00-05:00 microsoft personal Leslie O'Connor emailed me back today and confirmed that, yes, the positions that they are looking to fill would require relocation to Redmond. I wonder what Microsoft's disaster contingency plans look like with all of their key staff (and systems, p... http://corfield.org/entry/Microsoft_Recruitment_FollowUp seancorfield 2005-09-19T17:02:00-05:00 microsoft personal Eric S Raymond - long-time champion of open source - <a href="http://esr.ibiblio.org/index.208.html">relates Microsoft's attempt to recruit him</a> (well, actually the form letter they send to all sorts of people - and his responses). It's an enterta... http://corfield.org/entry/Microsoft_Recruitment seancorfield 2005-09-18T17:13:00-05:00 microsoft personal