Ricardo Parente's Blog

One of the fundamentals of Object Orientation is no exposure of the implementation details of an object. I’ve talked a few times this in another articles. So we use the encapsulation of the implementation, so do not put our objects and we have a better maintainability of our classes and since this encapsulation ensures the [...]

When we read the name of the pattern Decorator would imagine that silly name, meaningless. Good is not as meaningless as well. The Decorator works exactly as the name describes. Definition: Decorator is a design pattern software that allows you to add a behavior to an existing object at runtime, or dynamically adds additional responsibilities [...]

Andrew Perkins, a colleague of mine, wrote this HeaderBuilder component that comes handy when you need to load dynamically javascript and styles to your application, so each page will hold only its respective scripts. I will show you how to use it in an application using FW/1 (Framework One) by Sean Corfield. First thing to [...]

Our 12pm (US ET) talk on Thursday March 1 will be a “Scheduling Tasks with ColdFusion 10″, with Guust Nieuwenhuis. TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker) The Scheduler in ColdFusion might not be the most sexy feature but it is one of the most powerful. In ColdFusion 10, the Scheduler has been rewritten completely and tons of enhancements [...]

Welcome to the Adobe® ColdFusion® 10 beta release. The ColdFusion 10 beta unveils three main themes: unrivaled developer productivity, deep enterprise integration and simple work flow with Axis2 and Microsoft Exchange server 2010, unique built-in support for HTML5 to create dynamic and interactive applications. In addition to the ColdFusion 10 server, this beta also provides [...]

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 [...]