Ricardo Parente's Blog

Our 6pm (US ET) talk on Thursday February 2 will be a “Cloudy with a Chance of Tests”, with Mike Henke. TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker) We will introduce CI (continuous integration) concepts and benefits. Hopefully you have seen presentations over ant, setting up Jenkins, unit testing and refactoring your code. I always walk away thinking this [...]

Our 6pm (US ET) talk on Thursday January 26 will be a “Event Gateways”, with Kurt Wiersma. TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker) Have you ever wondered what event gateways are and what they can do for you? If so this session is for you. We will cover how you can use event gateways to execute code asynchronously [...]

Our 6pm (US ET, GMT-5) talk on Thursday January 12 will be a “Improve your workflow within ColdFusion Builder”, with Mike Henke. TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker) Lack of integration is a problem in any IDE (Integrated Development Environment). Lack of integration and visibility cause problems within your organization. Point to point integration like ticket systems are [...]

February 24-26, 2012 Dallas, TX Here is the link to the conference: http://opencfsummit.org/  

If you missed the part 1 of this tutorial, you may get it here. Now that we have set up the main Fusebox structure for our application, let’s continue to implement it. Layouts I want you to pay particular attention to the circuit “layout”. That circuit will not be called by any page, it is [...]

Unfortunately something happened to my old tutorial when I switched Internet provider and the posts were messed up, I got some complains, so I’m re-posting them here. This is Part 1: 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 [...]

ColdFusion Developer Week is a series of free, live webinars hosted by seasoned ColdFusion experts who will cover a wide range of topics from what ColdFusion is, how to code it, all the way through to more in depth topics such as ORM and ColdFusion Builder Extensions. If you are a new developer, someone with [...]

Our 12pm (US ET) talk on Thursday August 18 will be “Relax, It’s Only Data! A Gentle Introduction to CouchDB”, with Matt Woodward. TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker) CouchDB is a document-oriented, schemaless, “NoSQL” database built entirely around standard Web technologies such as HTTP, REST, JSON, and JavaScript. CouchDB has been described as being [...]

Interesting post from Paul Kukiel on how to upgrade your ColdFusion Builder 2. Read it here: http://blog.kukiel.net/2011/08/how-to-upgrade-coldfusion-builder-2-to.html

Our 12pm (US ET) talk on Thursday August 11 will be “Introduction to Caching”, with Daria Norris. TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker) Caching is such a deep and complex subject that it can be difficult to know where to begin. This session will cover the basics of caching in ColdFusion from using page and [...]