Ricardo Parente's Blog

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I mentioned in my previous post with the same title that I used a renaming function to check if the file was finished and unlocked by the FTP transfer, so I could work with it. Well, after several tests using the renaming test, I was still getting lock up errors and my process was stopping. [...]

I was so upset today when I passed through a toll booth and noticed that the price was increased from $0.75 to $1, that I decided to explode my protest by blogging about it. If you watch TV or read the news, you get a notion that the Government is trying to find a solution [...]

I got a “tip” from a colleague in the Brazilian ColdFusion mailing list about using Google to calculate currency conversions. I decided to test it and I’m amazed with the results, not only currency, but also measure units… Try this, type the following in the search box and see the result: Search box Result 250 [...]

I’m very sorry for my mistake. I kind of mixed stations here. Ray did not announce he joined Railo. I was reading my twitter in a rush and got the wrong info. Sorry folks, it’s all my fault.

Sean Corfield and Ray Camden are the new “acquisitions” from Railo. Both left Broadchoice today to work for Railo. Congratulations and good luck for both on their new enterprise.

At work we have a import procedure that reads several ZIP files uploaded to us and then imports the contents of it (XML file into the database and the picture files to their corresponding folders in our web directory). Since that process is scheduled to run several times a day, I was having locking problems [...]

Last week I bought a NetBook for my brother-in-law. I will not tell the brand here because I don’t know if it was my bad luck, and I don’t have statistics to affirm that brand is not good. But since I finished the Windows pre-setup and installed Firefox and other programs he asked me for, [...]

Good news for the ColdFusion community! Railo is expanding its operations to United Kingdom and U.S.A.. Mark Drew will be the head of U.K. operations and Peter Bell will be the one in U.S., congratulations to both excellent professionals and active members of our community.

Thumbs up to Adobe ! They decided to help any unemployed developer by giving away free license of Flex Builder 3 to whoever applies. Check out their site at: https://freeriatools.adobe.com/learnflex/ Also, if you are unemployed, check out the following sites: http://www.riajobs.org http://flex.org/jobs