Ricardo Parente's Blog

Yesterday I saw a post on the Brazilian ColdFusion list CF-BRASIL where a colleague was asking for any function to convert a value into the Brazilian currency “Reais” in the form of text. I remembered that I wrote a custom tag for that in 2002, but it had some problems writing the cents. Well, I [...]

I just launched my second book of photographies named “European Trips”. It contains 60 pages in a format 10 x 8 1/2 inches, lanscape, in three choices of cover: soft, hard w/dust-jacket and hard w/image-wrap. You may preview it at Blurb.com. Here are the links for my two books: European Trips By Ricardo Parente Book [...]

I found an interesting ColdFusion component in an article on a Brazilian site written by Pedro Claudio Silva, who has authorized me to translate it into English. This component helps you to generate or modify images by using the CFIMAGE functions supplied with CF8. The methods in this component are: * ImageBin * ImageReflection * [...]

This function receives a person’s name and inverts the first and last names. It will insert a comma after the last name if it is reverted. Example: “John C. Doe” becomes “Doe, John C.” and “Doe, Jane K.” becomes “Jane K. Doe” Argument: sName (required), name to be converted

In 2002 I wrote a CF custom tag to convert a raw text coming from a database table column into a HTML paragraph by replacing all tabs and carriage returns with “&nbsp;” and “<br>”. Recently I needed to use that custom tag again and decided to transform it into a CF function named: rpParagraphFormat() Download [...]

In order to help with documentation of MS-SQL databases, I wrote this small ColdFusion utility to produce the table schemas from a given database. It is very simple and easy to install. I just recommend you to use it only on your development server or localhost, without external access, otherwise you will be supplying information [...]

Last June I attended the CFUnited 2008 in Washington DC, together with my fellow CF developer Matt Horrell from the company we work for. Lots of information, more than we could possibily assimilate, 4 days of hard work attending sessions from 8:30 AM to 10 PM, but it was worthed every penny. The visit to [...]