Sean Corfield's thoughts on Adobe technologies, software design and application frameworks. http://corfield.org 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 2009-11-22T21:16:00-04:00 coldfusion fusebox oss Fusebox is the oldest application framework for CFML and it's gone through a number of dramatic changes over the years. Initially it was more of a methodology than a framework and it was really only with Fusebox 3 that it solidified into a full set o... http://corfield.org/entry/Fusebox_at_the_crossroads_again seancorfield 2009-08-07T22:29:00-04:00 coldfusion fusebox oss 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 2009-04-07T02:55:00-04:00 railo oss openbd microsoft machii grails fusebox coldfusion cfml-advisory broadchoice bluedragon adobe Back in Summer 2005, Peter J. Farrell asked <a href="http://blog.maestropublishing.com/index.cfm?mode=entry&ap;entry=9BB1C498-0836-3D12-9F0E09C8BE44039F">is Mach-II dead</a>? There had been very little action on the framework for ages and Model-Glue ... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Is_ModelGlue_Dead seancorfield 2009-03-23T23:10:00-04:00 coldbox coldfusion fusebox machii modelglue 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 2009-01-05T01:20:00-04:00 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 A few weeks ago I mentioned that Jeff Peters' new Fusebox book was available. I noticed today that <a href="http://www.placona.co.uk/blog/index.cfm/2008/9/13/How-to-Drive-Fusebox-55--Book-Review">Marcos Placona has published Niall O'Doherty's review<... http://corfield.org/entry/Review_of_How_to_Drive_Fusebox_55 seancorfield 2008-09-15T12:41:00-04:00 coldfusion fusebox I was checking the <a href="http://protonarts.com/">Proton Arts</a> web site today and noticed that Jeff Peters' much anticipated <a href="http://protonarts.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Books.showBookDetails&amp;ISBN=0975264761">How to Drive Fusebox 5.5<... http://corfield.org/entry/How_to_Drive_Fusebox_55 seancorfield 2008-08-29T14:54:00-04:00 fusebox coldfusion After many months of discussions and planning, we are finally able to announce that <a href="http://www.fusebox.org/go/news/new-fusebox-core-leader-adam-haskell-announced">Adam Haskell, Lead Architect at The Kroger Co., is taking over development of ... http://corfield.org/entry/Adam_Haskell_takes_over_Fusebox seancorfield 2008-08-13T16:01:00-04:00 fusebox coldfusion Kay Smoljak is running a series of interviews with framework developers and has a <a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/05/06/frameworks-frameworks-everywhere/">summary article on SitePoint</a> that includes a survey of people's framework usag... http://corfield.org/entry/Frameworks_Frameworks_Everywhere seancorfield 2008-05-09T13:34:00-04:00 coldbox coldfusion coldspring farcry fusebox machii modelglue orm That's a question that crops up over and over again. I've <a href="http://corfield.org/entry/Which_Framework">blogged about it in the past</a>. My answer - as I'm sure most folks would expect - is "it depends". The question came up on a mailing list ... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Which_is_the_greatest_ColdFusion_framework seancorfield 2008-04-12T13:21:00-04:00 cfobjective coldbox coldfusion coldspring farcry fusebox machii modelglue orm Fusebox 5.5.1 is a minor bug fix release and is now available for <a href="http://fusebox.org/go/fusebox-downloads/core-files">download from the Fusebox website</a>. You can read a PDF of the Release Notes from the <a href="http://trac.fuseboxframewo... http://corfield.org/entry/Fusebox_551_is_available seancorfield 2008-03-08T18:08:00-04:00 coldfusion fusebox I just confirmed with TeraTech that I'll be giving two talks at CFUNITED this year. In addition to "Event-Driven Programming in ColdFusion", I will also be taking over Sandy Clark's "<a href="http://cfunited.com/go/topics/2008#topic-1528">Driving Fus... http://corfield.org/entry/Doubling_up_at_CFUNITED seancorfield 2008-02-07T21:51:00-04:00 cfunited08 coldfusion fusebox If you've been using the BER (Bleeding Edge Release) of Fusebox from the Subversion repository, you'll get a surprise the next time you update: we've reorganized everything and added an ant build.xml file. What's changed? [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Fusebox_SVN_repository_reorganized seancorfield 2007-12-15T16:22:00-04:00 coldfusion fusebox Thanx to an eagle-eyed user who noticed that the Fusebox 5.5 core files ZIP omitted the standard error templates directory! The core files ZIP has been updated on the Fusebox website. This won't affect many people because the practice in the past ... http://corfield.org/entry/Fusebox_55_core_files_updated seancorfield 2007-12-15T16:17:00-04:00 coldfusion fusebox You can now download the <a href="http://www.fusebox.org/go/fusebox-downloads/core-files">Fusebox 5.5 core files, extensions and skeleton applications</a> from the Fusebox website. The scaffolder functionality within the extensions package is curr... http://corfield.org/entry/Fusebox_55_available_for_download seancorfield 2007-12-03T15:42:00-04:00 fusebox coldfusion