Ricardo Parente's Blog

Last week I had a big headache trying to import a 165MB XML file. I couldn’t even open it with any browse and reading it with ColdFusion gave me 500 errors, exceeded heap size, JRun closed connection, etc… The solution I found was to read the file line-by-line using Java and creating blocks of XML [...]

I work with Fusebox framework since its version 2. Now we are at version 5.51. I decided to write this tutorial to help some friends who haven’t got into Fusebox yet but are anxious to jump into the bandwagon, just don’t know how to start. I recommend Jeff Peter’s books on Fusebox for those who [...]

This seems to be the same job I posted in the beginning of this month, and it was not taken yet. Since it is another recruiter, I decided to post it again. Elliot Sharpe from TekSystems is looking for a candidate for this 6+ months contract. If you are interested, please contact him directly: Elliot [...]

Doug McCune, excellent work on his presentation at CFUnited. Here’s the video that I showed at CFunited yesterday of Hitler (as a Flex developer) finding out he’s speaking at a ColdFusion conference. A little context for those who didn’t attend my session: I was doing a demo of how to use the Adobe Open Source [...]

It is a 4-month contract in Orlando area posted by : Leveat Ruse Technical Recruiter Consultis leveatr[at]consultis[dot]com 605 Crescent Executive Court Suite 132 Lake Mary, FL 32746 Direct: 407-792-0102 Office: 407-805-9040 x207

Amazing show, two bassists and one electronic drummer at the NAMM 09 Conference. Victor Wooten (center) playing the 4-string bass guitar, Steve Bailey (left) playing the 6-string bass guitar and David “Fingers” Haynes on the electronic drums.

EKsystems is seeking a Sr. Cold Fusion Developer to join an existing contract to migrate an Access database into a web-based application. This is a contract position with the strong possibility of going permanent. Candidate will develop the project plan and the over all architecture of the application and will develop the new web-based application [...]

From the SkyNews: Dominic Hargreaves’s bike, The Contortionist, has been shortlisted for this year’s James Dyson Award for innovation. It takes around 20 seconds to fold down. It may bag the young inventor £10,000.

I was reading a blog by a Brazilian colleague about the BOM (Byte Order Mark) bytes in UTF-8 files, and I found it interesting to translate a summary. With Igor Escobar’s due authorization, of course, here is what I found to be of good tutorial value:
For those folks who speak Portuguese, here is the link to the full article where you can even find a PERL script to remove the BOM signature.