Ricardo Parente's Blog

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

I want to apologize for the lack of job postings in these last two weeks. I had to travel unexpectedly to Rio de Janeiro due to my mother’s passing away suddenly. It was a big stress for me and my family. I got back to Orlando this morning The good part of the trip was [...]

OpenCF Summit is a community gathering focused exclusively on advancing free and open source software in the CFML community. If you’re interested in diving into the free software CFML engines,  learning more about the free software movement, and interacting with the most progressive thinkers in the CFML community, OpenCF Summit is for you! You may [...]

Here is a good explanation on what is OpenCF Summit. http://blog.opencfsummit.org/opencf-summit-what-it-is-and-what-it-isnt

This is the recording from Ray Camden’s presentation today. http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2010/8/12/Recording-from-Adobe-AIRHTMLjQueryColdFusion-Presentation?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

I found this article by James Netherton on a discussion list of CF-Brasil group. I needed that long time ago, when I had to import some data from a PHP web application. I tried his code and it works perfectly, so I’m linking to his blog so you may use that code too if you [...]

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

I was doing a bit of research on a potential project when I stumbled across faint, a Java facial recognition library and decided to give it a quick try. The bad news is that the documentation is literally non-existent. So I did a bit of poking around the Jar and quickly found an ‘OpenCVDetection’ class. [...]

I always used version 2 of the best wysiwyg editor out there: FCKeditor. But it began to show it’s age, and some functions didn’t work like I wanted. So I checked for an upgrade. And yes, did they have one! A completely rewritten editor, now dubbed CKeditor, created byCKsource.com. It looks good, works good, and was [...]

For those who work or are interested in Sean Corfield’s FW/1 framework, {quicklycode} published a nice cheat sheet. You may find it here.