Sean Corfield's thoughts on Adobe technologies, software design and application frameworks. http://corfield.org 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 2008-01-21T00:26:00-05:00 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 2008-01-12T11:48:00-05:00 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 2007-11-07T23:47:00-05:00 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 2007-06-20T18:18:00-05:00 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 2007-06-15T15:02:00-05:00 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 2007-06-13T22:16:00-05:00 adobe air programming I'm doing some consulting right now that has me writing Java code. The more Java I write, the more I'm reminded of why I like ColdFusion so much but that's another story. The company I'm consulting for likes unit testing, which makes me very happy. T... http://corfield.org/entry/Eclipse_and_jUnit seancorfield 2007-04-18T22:34:00-05:00 cfeclipse programming Via my Adobe colleague, <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/shebanation/2007/03/invasion_of_the_dynamic_langua.html">Andrew Shebanow</a>, Hacknot has some choice words about <a href="http://www.hacknot.info/hacknot/action/showEntry?eid=93">dynamic progra... http://corfield.org/entry/Dynamic_Language_Weenies seancorfield 2007-03-27T02:26:00-05:00 coldfusion programming Not Invented Here and Reinventing The Wheel. We've all done it. We find something that does a perfectly good job but either it's written in a different language or written by someone else we don't know so we just decide to go ahead and write our own ... http://corfield.org/entry/Why_NIH_and_RTW_are_bad seancorfield 2007-02-24T04:09:00-05:00 programming About once a year, I tend to mention Haskell on my blog. I like functional programming languages - that was my research topic for three years after I graduated from university. Haskell is a very powerful functional programming language that has a num... http://corfield.org/entry/Haskell_Revisited seancorfield 2007-01-09T02:18:00-05:00 oss programming Michael Dinowitz has an <a href="http://www.fusionauthority.com/Community/4653-3-2-1-Monitor.htm">interesting piece about monitors and productivity</a> on Fusion Authority. I've never tried three monitors - my standard setup is two (one built-in and ... http://corfield.org/entry/Monitors_and_working_practices seancorfield 2006-12-19T02:07:00-05:00 personal programming Brian Rinaldi picked up on an <a href="http://www.allenriddle.com/articles/ooInTheEnterprise">opinion piece by Allen Riddle</a> that asks if SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) is killing OO in the enterprise. Brian <a href="http://www.remotesynthesi... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/OO_Programming_is_dead seancorfield 2006-12-19T01:44:00-05:00 architecture programming In talking to my cat fancy friends, there appears to be a gaping need for high-quality, well-priced web developers who are happy to create static web sites for cat breeders. Most of the web developers who are offering services to non-web-savvy people... http://corfield.org/entry/Do_you_develop_static_websites seancorfield 2006-11-07T01:44:00-05:00 programming Allen Holub - a brilliant man with a tendency to controversial writing - has rattled some more windows with some of his thoughts about how we are all <a href="http://www.sdtimes.com/printArticle/column-20060901-05.html">(ab)using XML these days</a>. ... http://corfield.org/entry/XML__Just_say_no seancorfield 2006-09-22T01:54:00-05:00 programming Tom Ball (Sun Microsystems) asks the question "<a href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/tball/archive/2006/08/is_writing_code.html">Is writing code a Career Limiting Move?</a>" - there seems to be a strong sense in many teams that architects don't (shou... http://corfield.org/entry/Coding_not_good_for_your_career seancorfield 2006-08-20T18:07:00-05:00 programming architecture