Sean Corfield's thoughts on Adobe technologies, software design and application frameworks. http://corfield.org 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 2010-01-27T23:56:00-04:00 oss programming When the subject of Agile Methods and Extreme Programming come up in conversation, I find a lot of people tend to dismiss it as some sort of "new fad". I'm on the XP mailing list (on Yahoo! Groups) and someone just posted today that the first message... http://corfield.org/entry/XP_is_nothing_new seancorfield 2010-01-01T01:28:00-04:00 programming As you might guess from some of my tweets and blog posts lately, I've been reading more about Agile, Lean and XP software processes, looking at how I can improve my own working practices and those of the teams I work with. Once again the XP mailin... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/What_Makes_Better_Code seancorfield 2009-11-09T17:28:00-04:00 programming tdd I asked a couple of questions on the extreme programming mailing list recently to see how people dealt with distributed teams (and also to gauge feelings on electronic collaboration versus face-to-face, pens-and-cards collaboration). William Pietr... http://corfield.org/entry/Do_You_XP seancorfield 2009-11-08T16:55:00-04:00 programming Marc Funaro kicked off quite a heated debate on his blog lately by raging against people pushing object-oriented programing/design and how his attempt to follow their advice nearly led to the collapse of his business. Marc was expressing a common fru... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/To_OO_or_not_to_OO_What_is_the_question seancorfield 2009-05-31T02:31:00-04:00 architecture coldfusion programming An interesting blog post from TechRepublic was doing the rounds on Twitter this morning so I thought I'd comment on it in terms of revelance to the CF community. The blog post was <a href="http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=643">10 skills... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/10_Skills_Developers_Will_Need seancorfield 2009-04-06T13:26:00-04:00 adobe coldfusion flex programming <a href="http://bennadel.com/">Ben Nadel</a> had a bit of a "crisis of faith" last week over his ability to learn OOP the "right" way. He's highlighted a problem most people have coming to OO these days: in their search for the One True Way(tm), they... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Designing_objectoriented_software_is_hard seancorfield 2009-03-30T12:34:00-04:00 architecture coldfusion programming Several people have been blogging about the <a href="http://www.halhelms.com/are-you-oo-ready.cfm">OO Quiz created by Hal Helms</a>. I'd question the wording of a couple of the questions but it's a fun way to while away 15-20 minutes and it will defi... http://corfield.org/entry/Hal_Helms__are_you_OOReady seancorfield 2008-12-13T14:48:00-04:00 architecture coldfusion programming Sammy Larbi has a <a href="http://www.codeodor.com/index.cfm/2008/6/27/Save-Your-Job-Release-Your-Code/2320">great blog post on the value of contributing to open source projects</a>. He cites several famous names - people we know because they contrib... http://corfield.org/entry/Why_contributing_to_Open_Source_Projects_can_be_valuable seancorfield 2008-06-27T12:49:00-04:00 coldfusion oss programming Geoff Bowers has posted a <a href="http://blog.daemon.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=8BD6FDD8-13D4-B1F1-48742F8EE3BEB437">helpful crib sheet</a> on the Daemonite blog that shows how to merge branches under SVN. I do this often enough that I get frustrated... http://corfield.org/entry/SVN_merge__crib_sheet seancorfield 2008-01-21T00:26:00-04:00 coldfusion programming An interesting blog post aimed at <a href="http://www.inter-sections.net/2007/11/13/how-to-recognise-a-good-programmer/">helping non-programmers recognize the indicators common in good programmers</a>. The comments are long (over 180 as of this writi... http://corfield.org/entry/Recognizing_Good_Programmers seancorfield 2008-01-12T11:48:00-04:00 coldfusion personal programming If you watched this week's "Chuck", right at the end he has a C++ book on the bench and, much to my wife's amusement, I excitedly recognized it "OMG! That's Barton &amp; Nackman's book!" "<a href="http://amazon.com/dp/0201533936/">Scientific and E... http://corfield.org/entry/Chuck__a_weird_blast_from_the_past seancorfield 2007-11-07T23:47:00-04:00 personal programming Jeffrey Zeldman suggests that <a href="http://www.zeldman.com/2007/06/20/remove-maybe-from-invitation-systems/">"maybe" is not an appropriate choice</a> and should not be offered to users. As someone building a social networking website, I know wh... http://corfield.org/entry/Maybe_you_should_decide seancorfield 2007-06-20T18:18:00-04:00 scazu programming Many of us have seen the (infamous) Ruby on Rails "Blog in 15 minutes" video and probably also Joe Rinehart's "Blog in 9 minutes" Model-Glue: Unity video. It makes it all look so easy. Wow! We should all use Ruby on Rails (or Model-Glue: Unity) becau... http://corfield.org/entry/What_it_takes_to_be_easy seancorfield 2007-06-15T15:02:00-04:00 architecture coldfusion programming Having just spent the last few days tinkering with AIR applications - including some training at the annual Adobe Summit - I'm pretty fired up about AIR! You can build AIR applications easily with Flex using the beta of Flex Builder 3 but you can ... http://corfield.org/entry/Creating_HTML_AIR_Applications seancorfield 2007-06-13T22:16:00-04:00 adobe air programming