Ricardo Parente's Blog

In my post Check If File Is Available I showed a code using the Java method canWrite() to check if the file was available to be worked (read/write). Our colleague Marco Antonio commented that it could cause a race condition, so it is not a good idea to use it for that purpose. Here is a link [...]

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I had a terrible fllight from Miami to Rio de Janeiro. My flight, American Airlines #905, had to do an unscheduled stop in Manaus (north of Brazil) to allow a passenger who had heart problems to be attended. After 3 hours waiting inside the plane, finally we were cleared to continue the trip. Soon as [...]

Some time ago I contacted Adobe and directly Ben Forta, and asked them for help on materials for my presentation at the Universities of Valença and Vassouras in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I want to thank Ben for sending me two Powerpoint presentations, Greg for sending me  DVDs of Flex Tour and Kristen for the [...]

In my previous post, I discussed the function used to split a string into a table of tokens. Very useful instead creating a cursor. Now, with SQL 2005/2008, it became easier and faster to do the same job using XML parsing. I found this function online, written by Jacob Sebastian which is much faster than my [...]