Sean Corfield's blog articles

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on 6/3/2014 8:58 PM
I've been involved with World Singles for about five years now, about three and a half years as a full-time engineer. The project was a green field rewrite of a dating system the company had evolved over about a decade that, back in 2009, was running on ColdFusion 8 on Windows, and using SQL Server. The new platform soft-launched in late 2011 as we migrated a few small sites across and our full launch - migrating millions of members in the process - was May 2012. At that point we switched from "build" mode[...]
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on 5/20/2014 11:42 PM
cf.Objective() is over for another year and the reactions I've seen were all very positive. As a long-time member of the Steering Committee, that makes me very happy. This is the first time I've ever missed cf.Objective(). Yes, I've attended eight of the nine, and I've been a speaker at six of them (I think?). I've also attended as a sponsor (2012, as Railo's "booth babe"). This year also saw Into The Box the day before - a one day conference dedicated to all things *Box, not just ColdBox. That conference [...]
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on 2/13/2014 11:03 PM
A very short post, partly as a reminder for my future self. Check out the following Leiningen plugins: lein-ancient - analyzes your project.clj and lets you know which dependencies are out of date. lein-exec - directly execute Clojure code snippets, or write shell scripts in Clojure! lein-try - start a REPL with various dependencies without needing a project. Great for exploring new libraries! Eastwood - a lint tool for Clojure.
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on 1/31/2014 3:01 PM
I've been an advocate of diversity in IT for a long time. I'm very pleased to work in a company that has an above average ratio of female to male employees, as well as very diverse cultural backgrounds amongst our staff. In most tech communities, diversity is pretty low. It's why organizations like RailsBridge and Women Who Code and numerous others exist. The lack of diversity hurts us all because a homogeneous community doesn't have diversity of thought either: diverse teams outperform homogeneous teams.[...]
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on 1/31/2014 8:59 AM
clojure.java.jdbc 0.3.3 is a minor bug fix release: JDBC-89 - calling query with a bare SQL string no longer causes an exception (or a crash with some drivers!). JDBC-87 - metadata-result is no longer lazy by default, and accepts :row-fn and :result-set-fn arguments, like query, to manipulate the result set. Key/value pairs in connection string URI are now passed through to the driver as part of the connection parameters - thanks to Phil Hagelberg for that.
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