Ricardo Parente's Blog

Recently, I added to my “Preferred Blogs” list our colleague Stephen Collins from Australia. I had the pleasure to chat with him over Skype. He is the founder of “acidlabs“, a social media, networking and knowledge economy company and, according to him, there is no more time for ColdFusion programming. But he has left us [...]

For those who want to use the full extent of CFGRID tag in ColdFusion 8, I recommend reading this article by Dan Vega where he talks about CFGrid Event Listeners: http://www.danvega.org/blog/index.cfm/2008/3/20/CFGrid-Event-Listeners

Nowadays we have ways of sorting the display results from a query without resubmitting the page by using Ajax. Long time ago I wrote a custom tag with the help of my coworker Jason Sheppard to do the same by submitting the page with the new sort field information. So, for those who do not [...]

Sometimes in an Intranet you need to notify the client that his session is about to expire and let him to decide if he will renew his session or let it die. That can be done either on server or client side. We will discuss here the client-side way using Javascript and/or Ajax to refresh [...]

My friend Flavio asked me for a code to select some options from a select box and populate other that will be submitted with the form as the “chosen” options. I know that there are many forms to do that and there are on the web several tutorials using Javascript and extensions as jQuery, etc.  [...]

Network World magazine published today an article about the Chinese iPhone look-alike or even clones. They have many models and are unlocked. Some do not work in the U.S. but the majority of them work here with any provider. Here is the article “Top 16 Chinese iPhoneys“. You may find in the article the place [...]

I’m writing a new import module for our real estate system where I have to read several XML files and process many photos, resizing them for the web and updating the database. Due to the amount of picture files to process, I was getting CF tag timeouts, sometimes the image tag, sometimes other tags. So [...]