Ricardo Parente's Blog

Everybody knows that dynamic queries take a lot more of work and time to process. I had last week a case in which I had a variable number of parameters to pass to a stored procedure and one of the parameters was the “order by” clause. Also, I needed to do some pagination on my [...]

I received a comment in my other article with the same title from Larry C. Lyons indicating me a better solution by Stuart Langridge making use of a Javascript library he wrote called sorttable.js, which sorts the HTML table by sortable headers, without having to send another request to the database. Very well done, congratulations Stuart.

Version Control for Windows Users Presentation
…Andy Beer and I did a presentation on Version Control for Windows Users to Devon CFUG last week. Here are the slides (to view full screen click the arrow in the top right corner).

5 easy steps to installing Subversion on Windows XP.
In this article, I explain how to install Subversion and get it ready for use. These instructions apply for Windows XP.

Text about the world crisis by Muniz Neto, director of art and partner at Bullet, one of the biggest advertisement agencies in Brazil. As one person commented, too bad that this text is only posted on blogs and not distributed by the mass media.

I just got a request to post this job openings for two ColdFusion positions in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. It is a ColdFusion/Linux/Apache/PostgreSQL shop. You may send your resume to David : dstjohn[at]weatherflow[dot]com. Here is the text: Join our growing IT office in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, and help us build and maintain leading edge, [...]

 This is an article very interesting for those who want to apply the effects of LightBox to your alert windows. I found this article on a post by Patrick Hunlock where he says: This snippet “grays” out the screen and allows you to create a “modal” environment. A gray out is useful for creating a DHTML [...]

Congratulations to the folks of Broadchoice, the big names on ColdFusion like Sean Corfield, Ray Camden, Joe Rinehart and others, for the excellent product they have launched recently, the Broadchoice Workspace. I had the opportunity to try the beta version and now with the final version I can see that they have aleady more than [...]

My reasoning behind the title of this blog entry is to discuss how to be confident in your skill set as an IT professional and to avoid that feeling of “Where am I going or am I doing the right thing with this solution?” Recently I was questioned by a team member on my approach [...]

Here in Orlando, FL the job openings for ColdFusion developers were always a few, comparing with other IT jobs. I’m afraid that with this “coming” (if not here already) crisis we will have many CF guys on the streets looking for jobs. I got recently some news from Network World which scared me. Take a [...]