Ricardo Parente's Blog

Recently I began working on a project that will integrate with Basecamp’s API to fetch and sync data back and forth. My approach to the application was simple. I began by designing the interface, marking it up, and getting some basic jQuery interactions functional. After a few hours it was time to begin working with [...]

Matt Gifford created the “Lipsum Generator” for ColdFusion Builder based on the CFC Lipsum written by Tim Blair. Both products are posted on RiaForge.org.  As himself said, “you have to love the CF community and sharing code”. Here is the link to his article.

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The ColdFusion library to communicate with the Twitter API was written by a friend from Brazil, Pedro Claudio, and it is available at RiaForge. Library that enables integration of ColdFusion with the Twitter API. Usage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 <cfscript> twitter = createObject(‘component’,'Twitter’).init(‘username’,'password’); /* sent message */ xmlString = twitter.updateStatus(‘Message for your friend’,'FriendID’,'xml’); [...]

Congratulations Ben Nadel for your experiences on undocumented features of ColdFusion ! I liked the idea of playing with hidden features. I’m wrinting this re-post just to remind me where I can get this information later. getPageContext().getFusionContext().hiddenScope Here is the link to the full article on Ben’s blog.

In my work environment we have ColdFusion 7 and I like to write my templates in cfscript, but since CF7 does not support some new scripting functions in CF8, I wrote a component to mimic those functions and allow me to stay focused on the scripting. Well, it is not my original idea, I saw [...]

Nowadays we have ways of sorting the display results from a query without resubmitting the page by using Ajax. Long time ago I wrote a custom tag with the help of my coworker Jason Sheppard to do the same by submitting the page with the new sort field information. So, for those who do not [...]