Sean Corfield's thoughts on Adobe technologies, software design and application frameworks. http://corfield.org Go on... you know you want to... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4">An Engineer's Guide To Cats</a>. http://corfield.org/entry/An_Engineers_Guide_To_Cats seancorfield 2008-04-22T01:37:00-05:00 humor personal If you're planning to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5, make sure you backup or move whatever you have in your /home directory before you start. You know, don't have your ColdFusion 8 install or your Eclipse workspace in /home. Like I did. Oh, I know, why /h... http://corfield.org/entry/Welcome_to_Leopard__Bye_bye_home seancorfield 2008-03-29T00:54:00-05:00 osx personal Heard of <a href="http://flyclear.com/">CLEAR - Fly Through Airport Security</a>? If you travel a lot, you might want to check it out. My wife and I signed up this year because we're flying a lot (four CF conferences for me and countless cat shows fo... http://corfield.org/entry/Fly_Clear seancorfield 2008-03-27T19:26:00-05:00 personal A pet peeve of mine. This time the culprit is Gensys Infotech based in Fremont, CA. I received an email from a "Vivek Bhaskar" the other day to my almost brand new Broadchoice email address, offering their services along with pricing. I replied, a... http://corfield.org/entry/Unprofessional_Recruiters seancorfield 2008-03-24T14:53:00-05:00 personal <a href="http://dopplr.com/">Dopplr</a> is out of beta and open for everyone to sign up now. It's a good way to see who is going to be at conferences (or cat shows!) that you are attending. Sign up and start sharing your trips with colleagues and fri... http://corfield.org/entry/Dopplr__share_your_trips seancorfield 2008-03-09T21:09:00-05:00 personal <a href="http://broadchoice.com/"><img src="http://corfield.org/images/broadchoice.gif" align="right" border="0"/></a> <p><strong>For immediate release</strong></p> <p><strong>On-Demand Services Attract In-Demand Architect</strong></p> <p><strong>... http://corfield.org/entry/Sean_Corfield_joins_Broadchoice_Inc seancorfield 2008-02-16T00:54:00-05:00 hosted coldfusion broadchoice bacfug personal A few years ago, Jay and I went to a <a href="http://corfield.org/entry/Montana_In_Pictures">friend's wedding in Montana</a> and had a fabulous time at the spa and at our friends' ranch. Last year, we went back to help on the <a href="http://corfield... http://corfield.org/entry/A_Unique_Vacation_In_Montana seancorfield 2008-02-11T15:20:00-05:00 personal Please do <strong>not</strong> send personal email to my Gmail account! I use it exclusively for mailing lists. I sometimes go days without checking it and I get so much email there that I often just mark swathes of it as "read" without actually read... http://corfield.org/entry/Me_and_Gmail seancorfield 2008-01-21T00:36:00-05:00 coldfusion personal Some people were not very excited about Apple's keynote yesterday but the 1.1.3 firmware update for the iPhone is plenty enough for me, along with Google's updated mobile apps. I use Gmail a lot on my iPhone and one of my clients has standardized ... http://corfield.org/entry/Thank_you_Apple_and_Google seancorfield 2008-01-16T12:29:00-05:00 personal osx iphone hosted blogging 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 I'm working with just three clients right now and with each of them I am essentially doing the same thing: taking an existing system that has been built up over a number of years and helping them rearchitect it for better maintainability and better s... http://corfield.org/entry/Architecture_Remixed seancorfield 2008-01-11T01:56:00-05:00 architecture coldfusion personal You've always wanted to know what I really do at weekends? Here's a <a href="http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2008/01/07/a-day-at-the-cat-show ">great little interview on Geek Entertainment TV</a> that was filmed at a local cat show... My wife is one ... http://corfield.org/entry/I_can_has_cat_show seancorfield 2008-01-10T19:53:00-05:00 humor personal A Leopard is in my future. I've been holding off upgrading to Leopard until Adobe (and others) have updates available to ensure compatibility. My financial controller (Jay) pointed out that it's year end and if I need any "last minute" software or ha... http://corfield.org/entry/Seeing_spots seancorfield 2007-12-28T02:36:00-05:00 coldfusion iphone osx personal It's almost that time of the year where we tend to take stock of the last twelve months and make resolutions for the coming twelve months. I've never been much for making resolutions but I always provide a review of the last year, based on my blog po... http://corfield.org/entry/Coming_soon seancorfield 2007-12-26T01:39:00-05:00 blogging coldfusion personal You used to be able to go to the online Apple store and buy iTunes gift certificates for people and send them directly via email. In fact, my "wish list" used to contain a link directly to that page on the store in case anyone wanted to buy me a cert... http://corfield.org/entry/Apple_makes_it_harder_to_buy_iTunes_gift_certificates_for_your_friends seancorfield 2007-12-18T21:56:00-05:00 osx personal