Sean Corfield's thoughts on Adobe technologies, software design and application frameworks. http://corfield.org 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 2009-11-10T17:51:00-04:00 coldfusion oss osx railo Update: some folks didn't like the idea of providing their MSN / Yahoo! credentials to a Czech server so here's a nice secure way to handle iChat connecting to MSN and Yahoo! <a href="http://blog.toonetown.com/2007/12/10-steps-to-multi-protocol-ic... http://corfield.org/entry/MSN__Yahoo_on_iChat seancorfield 2009-05-13T14:23:00-04:00 osx oss In the comments on <a href="http://corfield.org/entry/Railo_for_Dummies_Part_IV">Part IV</a>, Barney suggested using AJP to proxy and I confirmed that it preserves the CGI variables <tt>REMOTE_ADDR</tt> and <tt>REMOTE_HOST</tt> which Paul Kukiel aske... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Railo_for_Dummies_Part_IV_Appendix seancorfield 2009-03-28T12:13:00-04:00 apache coldfusion osx railo After getting a very basic Railo+Tomcat setup running, now we're going to make it more robust and more 'production-ready' (you'll want to do more than I'm going to show so I'd refer you to the extensive Tomcat documentation for deeper configuration).... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Railo_for_Dummies_Part_IV seancorfield 2009-03-27T21:42:00-04:00 apache coldfusion osx railo Today, let's get Railo running on Tomcat! Why Tomcat? It's a robust, high-performance Java-based web server and Servlet engine and it's also very light and lean. Tomcat is also the basis of the JBoss Web Server (I'll probably cover JBoss later in thi... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Railo_for_Dummies_Part_III seancorfield 2009-03-27T17:28:00-04:00 railo osx coldfusion I think a lot of people are looking beyond Adobe's licensing model for ColdFusion and evaluating other options. Last year, when Broadchoice decided to use Amazon EC2 as our production deployment platform, we picked Railo to drive our CFML-based iPhon... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Railo_for_Dummies_Part_I seancorfield 2009-03-24T00:53:00-04:00 coldbox coldfusion osx railo I've been experimenting with a variety of "todo" managers over the last year, trying to find one that fits my needs. I have been a fan of <a href="http://43actions.tumblr.com/">43actions</a> for most of 2008 because it offered a nice iPhone-compatibl... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/GTD__Getting_Things_Done seancorfield 2008-12-31T22:15:00-04:00 personal osx iphone Walt Mossberg (of The Wall Street Journal) has some <a href="http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20080702/some-general-tips-for-switch-to-mac-from-windows/">general tips for switching to Mac from Windows</a>. It's mostly simple stuff - keyboard and mouse nav... http://corfield.org/entry/Switching_to_Mac_Walt_Mossberg_has_some_tips seancorfield 2008-07-04T14:10:00-04:00 osx Did you know? If you highlight any text in any application on Mac OS X and drag the selected text to the Safari dock icon, Safari will open and perform a Google search for the dragged text. Courtesy of <a href="http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?... http://corfield.org/entry/Useful_Safari_search_tip seancorfield 2008-06-23T20:26:00-04:00 osx I updated Leopard to 10.5.3 this morning and ssh would no longer run, giving a Bus Error each time. A quick Google revealed the problem was actually the Instant Hijack component of Audio Hijack Pro and there is already a 2.8.1 update to AHP that fixe... http://corfield.org/entry/Leopard_1053_Audio_Hijack_and_ssh_crash seancorfield 2008-06-16T17:54:00-04:00 osx The latest software update for Mac OS X 10.5.2 adds Java 1.6.0_05 but does not change your default setup. See <a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307403">this tech note</a> for more details. I haven't yet switched to Java 6 as ... http://corfield.org/entry/Java_6_just_arrived_on_Leopard seancorfield 2008-04-30T10:51:00-04:00 coldfusion j2ee osx Popular Mechanics has published a <a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/reviews/4258725.html">very interesting comparison</a> of Apple desktop and laptop performance compared to equivalent PC equipment. In almost all cases the Mac outpe... http://corfield.org/entry/Mac_vs_PC__Popular_Mechanics_Review seancorfield 2008-04-16T17:31:00-04:00 osx Just discovered that my iPhone had stopped syncing calendars. It turns out that Tiger and Leopard store their calendars in different places and if you do a simple "upgrade" to Leopard (as I did), then iTunes gets confused and uses your old Tiger cale... http://corfield.org/entry/PostLeopard_Glitch_3 seancorfield 2008-04-09T22:38:00-04:00 iphone osx I like Spaces but I always like improving my workflow. A small utility called <a href="http://www.ksuther.com/warp/">Warp</a> does just that. It allows you to switch Spaces using the mouse, with a variety of options including modifier keys, clickable... http://corfield.org/entry/Warp__Making_Leopard_Spaces_Even_Better seancorfield 2008-03-31T00:50:00-04:00 osx It won't recognize my Verizon broadband card - or at least it won't connect. Network preferences show that it thinks the "Novatel CDMA" card has become an Apple modem (huh?!). Delete the network profile, re-insert the card, bingo! Auto-configuration ... http://corfield.org/entry/PostLeopard_Glitch_2 seancorfield 2008-03-29T17:02:00-04:00 osx wifi