Sean Corfield's thoughts on Adobe technologies, software design and application frameworks. http://corfield.org The last week has seen some big announcements in the CF world! On March 31st, <a href="http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2009/3/31/There-is-too-much-news-in-the-world-but-too-little-is-really-new">Gert announced the open source release of Railo</a>,... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Is_Choice_A_Good_Thing seancorfield 2009-04-07T02:55:00-05:00 railo oss openbd microsoft machii grails fusebox coldfusion cfml-advisory broadchoice bluedragon adobe As "usual", I start the year with a round-up of the highlights of last year, based on things that I blogged. It's been a strange year for me. After (seven) years with Macromedia / Adobe and most of 2007 spent freelancing, I took a full-time job with ... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/2008_in_review seancorfield 2009-01-05T01:20:00-05:00 tdd scotch08 saas ria railo personal oss openbd iphone hosted grails fusebox flex edmund coldspring coldfusion cfunited09 cfunited08 cfobjective cfml-advisory cfdevcon08 broadchoice bluedragon bacfug air adobemax08 weedram08 Michael Sprague has created a nice set of custom tags that use jQuery to provide alternatives for <a href="http://www.webtrenches.com/post.cfm/jquery-replacements-for-cfgride-cfwindowe-and-cftooltip">cfgrid, cfwindow and cftooltip</a>. Currently a "... http://corfield.org/entry/Nice_jQuerybased_CF_AJAX_widgets seancorfield 2008-08-29T16:26:00-05:00 bluedragon coldfusion jquery Note: Vince updated his post to use more neutral language - thank you Vince! - so I have updated this post to be more neutral as well. <hr /> Vince Bonfanti <a href="http://blog.newatlanta.com/index.cfm?mode=entry&amp;entry=2D4A944D-CA23-476B-8A49D... http://corfield.org/entry/New_Atlanta_calls_you_legacy seancorfield 2008-06-07T13:48:00-05:00 oss openbd coldfusion bluedragon 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 This time it's <a href="http://alan.blog-city.com/interview_seancorfield.htm">me in the spotlight</a>, interviewed by Alan Williamson. Previous interview victims have been Mike Brunt, Peter Amiri and Andy Allan. Keep you eye on Alan's blog for interv... http://corfield.org/entry/Another_OpenBD_Steering_Committee_Interview seancorfield 2008-04-14T11:09:00-05:00 bluedragon cfobjective coldfusion openbd oss This year's <a href="http://cfobjective.com/">cf.Objective()</a> has a lot of firsts. If you're not attending, you're going to miss out on a lot of world premier events! We've worked hard to make cf.Objective() 2008 a "must see" event. We have a n... http://corfield.org/entry/cfObjective_2008__The_First seancorfield 2008-04-11T00:39:00-05:00 oss openbd modelglue machii flex coldspring coldfusion coldbox cfobjective bluedragon swiz Alan Williamson introduces the members of the <a href="http://alan.blog-city.com/bluedragon_steering_committee.htm">Open BlueDragon Steering Committee</a> in a post today that includes quotes from each committee member about their hopes for the proj... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Open_BlueDragon_Steering_Committee seancorfield 2008-04-08T09:37:00-05:00 bluedragon coldfusion openbd oss Alan Williamson just announced that the BlueDragon open source project <a href="http://alan.blog-city.com/openbd_officialname.htm">has an official name</a>: Open BlueDragon, or OpenBD for short. The steering committee has also created a <a href="http... http://corfield.org/entry/Open_BlueDragon_public_mailing_list seancorfield 2008-04-03T15:48:00-05:00 bluedragon coldfusion openbd oss Dan Wilson conducted a <a href="http://coldfusion.dzone.com/articles/freeing-dragon-interview-vince">great interview with Vince Bonfanti</a> about BlueDragon going open source, published on dzone. The release date for BlueDragon Open Source is <a ... http://corfield.org/entry/BlueDragon_Open_Source__More_Information seancorfield 2008-03-27T14:38:00-05:00 coldfusion cfobjective bluedragon openbd Vince Bonfanti will be presenting a Birds of a Feather session at cf.Objective() 2008 on the Open Source BlueDragon project. New Atlanta are working hard to make an initial source code drop available, especially for cf.Objective(), so that Vince c... http://corfield.org/entry/Open_Source_BlueDragon__cfObjective_BOF seancorfield 2008-03-21T16:11:00-05:00 coldfusion cfobjective bluedragon openbd Vince Bonfanti has posted a <a href="http://blog.newatlanta.com/index.cfm?mode=entry&amp;entry=721992F3-B1B8-4975-8E3A1D3EB33AA435">good explanation</a> of several of the details and implications of opening up BlueDragon. I was pleased to see him cal... http://corfield.org/entry/More_on_BlueDragon_Open_Source seancorfield 2008-03-15T16:45:00-05:00 openbd coldfusion bluedragon oss In a move that has surprised some folks, New Atlanta has announced plans to create a free open source version of their J2EE BlueDragon product. They will continue to develop, sell and support a commercial version of it, as well as continuing the .NET... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Open_Source_BlueDragon seancorfield 2008-03-10T17:24:00-05:00 oss openbd coldfusion bluedragon 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 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