Ricardo Parente's Blog

Dear friends and Twitter followers, I have created a page on this blog dedicated to Pact Publishing with links to their books related to ColdFusion, JQuery, ExtJS and YUI. If you ever want to purchase one of their books, I’d appreciate if you could do it through those links, since I get points to help [...]

Break free from procedural programming and learn how to optimize your applications and enhance your skills using objects and design patterns. What you will learn from this book : Make your ColdFusion Components (CFCs) come alive with methods, using object inheritance, connecting to a database through the internal methods of our object/CFCs Create a Bean [...]

I got my copy of the ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial by John Farrar and I took this long weekend to read it. As far, so good. John has a very nice way of explaining the language, either for starters or for experienced ColdFusion developers. The book starts with a general basic view of the ColdFusion [...]

New book release: ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutoria by John Farrar. You may purchase it through Packt Publishing, either paper, eletronic or both editions.

I just bought my copy of the new ColdFusion 9 book by Ben Forta. Read the specifications here. Buy the book from Amazon here. UPDATE: Contributing authors on this title are: Charlie Arehart Ray Camden (co-lead author) Sorry not to mention before, thanks to Ray’s  reminder in the comments.

For those who are jumping into MS SQL 2008, here are two goo books to purchase. The first one, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration, is a complete, fast-paced, task-based reference you’ve been searching for. Ross Mistry presents proven techniques for SQL Servere 2008 installation, upgrades, backup/restore, data transfer, indexing and much more. Another [...]

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 [...]

I just launched my second book of photographies named “European Trips”. It contains 60 pages in a format 10 x 8 1/2 inches, lanscape, in three choices of cover: soft, hard w/dust-jacket and hard w/image-wrap. You may preview it at Blurb.com. Here are the links for my two books: European Trips By Ricardo Parente Book [...]