Sean Corfield's thoughts on Adobe technologies, software design and application frameworks. http://corfield.org I'm very pleased that <a href="http://cfunited.com/2010/speakers#speaker-882">two of my submissions for CFUnited 2010</a> have been accepted: <ul> <li>FW/1 - The Invisible Framework</li> <li>ColdFusion and the Open Source Landscape</li> </ul> Th... http://corfield.org/entry/Officially_Speaking_at_CFUnited_2010 seancorfield 2010-02-18T15:44:00-05:00 cfunited10 coldfusion fw1 oss You can now install a plugin to Mura that lets you easily add FW/1 applications into Mura. See the <a href="http://www.getmura.com/index.cfm/blog/new-fw1-plugin/">Mura blog</a> for more details! http://corfield.org/entry/Mura_releases_FW1_plugin seancorfield 2010-02-18T15:38:00-05:00 coldfusion fw1 oss Back at CFinNC, I sat down with Dan Wilson for an informal 15 minute interview about standardization, open source and my thoughts about CFML. DZone published the video today. Watch <a href="http://java.dzone.com/videos/corfield-coldfusion">Dan Wil... http://corfield.org/entry/Interviewed_by_Dan_Wilson_for_DZone seancorfield 2010-02-09T20:47:00-05:00 cfinnc cfml-advisory coldfusion oss A few folks have asked me to post the "napkin" on which I wrote the spec for FW/1. My "napkin" is actually <a href="http://www.evernote.com/">Evernote</a> because I have it on every computer and my iPhone so it's always with me and it's easy to devel... http://corfield.org/entry/FW1__The_napkin_spec seancorfield 2010-02-06T20:00:00-05:00 coldfusion fw1 oss The awesome free open source content management system, Mura, just released the latest version: 5.2. In addition to lots of great usability improvements, I'm very pleased to see that they've switched the Mura admin from Fusebox to FW/1: <blockquo... http://corfield.org/entry/Mura_52_Released__now_with_FW1 seancorfield 2010-02-04T12:27:00-05:00 coldfusion fw1 oss I've spent today working on a reasonably complex build.xml file, refactoring it to reduce duplication by using the ant-contrib foreach task so that similar targets can be reduced to loops over a list of properties (I'll blog on that later since it in... http://corfield.org/entry/Visualizing_ant_buildxml_files seancorfield 2010-01-27T23:56:00-05:00 oss programming About two weeks ago, Hal Helms blogged that he is <a href="http://www.halhelms.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/11/16/Why-Im-Moving-to-Ruby-On-Rails">leaving ColdFusion for Ruby on Rails</a>. Naturally it stirred a lot of the traditional "is ColdFusion dead... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/On_Hal_Helms_Ruby_on_Rails_and_the_Death_of_ColdFusion_and_Fusebox seancorfield 2009-11-22T21:16:00-05:00 coldfusion fusebox oss I'm working on a Railo project that is using some Scala code for part of the system and I'm using Ant to drive the build process. The Scala website has a lot of tools and documentation and you can read about <a href="http://www.scala-lang.org/node/98... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Compiling_Scala_code_with_Ant seancorfield 2009-11-10T19:17:00-05:00 coldfusion oss railo Another note to self. I love <a href="http://macromates.com/">TextMate</a>! It's my primary code editor for most work these days (on Mac OS X). It's lightweight and extensible and there are lots of bundles available for it. Rob Rohan has created T... http://corfield.org/entry/TextMate_CFML_Scala_Git seancorfield 2009-11-10T17:51:00-05:00 coldfusion oss osx railo Although this blog is often running on a bleeding edge "dev" release of Railo, I want to draw your attention to this version as it is a "preview" release, in preparation for our upcoming 3.1.2 public release. If you're comfortable running pre-rele... http://corfield.org/entry/Running_Railo_311017 seancorfield 2009-11-09T13:43:00-05:00 coldfusion oss railo 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 This morning I presented <a href="http://corfield.org/articles/opensource.pdf">ColdFusion and the Open Source Landscape</a> (PDF, 544k) at the awesome <a href="http://www.cfinnc.com/">CFinNC</a> conference. The feedback has been good so far so I want... http://corfield.org/entry/ColdFusion_and_the_Open_Source_Landscape seancorfield 2009-10-18T12:59:00-05:00 4cff cfinnc coldfusion oss A question just came in from a prospective Railo user: "What databases does Railo support?" I answered it in email directly to that user but figured it was worth a blog post so others can easily see the full list: <ul> <li>DB2</li> <li>Firebird... http://corfield.org/entry/Databases_supported_by_Railo seancorfield 2009-10-15T16:39:00-05:00 coldfusion oss railo Since I promised to keep most news about my <a href="http://fw1.riaforge.org/">lightweight, convention-based MVC framework, FW/1</a> on the RIAForge project blog, this is just a quick to say it's had a few updates and is currently at build 0.6.3. Rec... http://corfield.org/entry/FW1__Framework_One_Updated seancorfield 2009-10-12T15:36:00-05:00 oss fw1 coldfusion One of the common complaints I hear about ColdFusion's popularity (or perceived lack thereof) is that we don't have any of the 'killer' open source applications that make PHP (or insert language of choice) so popular. If you look around at great ... http://corfield.org/entry/Improving_ColdFusion_Open_Source_Software seancorfield 2009-10-02T23:48:00-05:00 4cff adobemax09 coldfusion oss