Ricardo Parente's Blog

The Oracle security Alert CVE-2010-4476 affects ColdFusion versions 9.0.1, 9.0, 8.0.1, and 8.0. Adobe recommends updating the Java (JDK/JRE) for all ColdFusion server versions as per Oracle’s Java update instructions. Information about the security vulnerability along with the fix is provided at the following link. Oracle just released a Security Alert with a fix for the [...]

…Using CFML to create HTML is also a great replacement for JSP.  You don’t have to give up your back-end (EJB, Spring, Hibernate) to use CF. Adam Lehman is the Senior Product Manager for ColdFusion.  He says a lot of ColdFusion use cases are within a Java development cycle.  It’s a Java application, so it [...]

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. [...]

For those who missed the MeetUp presentation on “Introduction to Java EE and Servlet Containers for ColdFusion” by Jamie Krug, here is the link to the recorded presentation: https://admin.na3.acrobat.com/_a204547676/p51126187/

Kforce Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree and 4-6 years of experience in Application Development or equivalent combination of education and experience Solid Flex experience Knowledge of system development methodologies, application development tools, system architecture, and design principals Experience at a minimum with CF v. 7 as well as Flex 3 SQL Sever 2000-2005 with stored procedures experience [...]

Amazing article by Todd Sharp. With a few lines of code and a java library, you can produce faces images from a photo. Guys, ColdFusion is not only the best language, it has amazing Gurus. Here is the link.

We are seeking a ColdFusion Developer who has 5+ years experience with ColdFusion MX7 for a project with a government client of ours. The project is expected to last about 90 days but there is a possibility for an extension. Required: ColdFusion Development experience (MX7) Experience working projects full life cycle from inception to completion [...]

Jason Delmore posted an interesting article comparing string concatenation using ColdFusion and Java. 1 2 3 4 5 6 stringbldr = createObject("java", "java.lang.StringBuilder").init(); for (i=1;i<span style="color: #000099;"><=iterations;i++) <span style="color: #000099;">{ stringbldr = stringbldr.append(appendstring); }</span></span> <span style="color: #000099;"><span style="color: #000099;"> Here the complete article.

Last week I had a big headache trying to import a 165MB XML file. I couldn’t even open it with any browse and reading it with ColdFusion gave me 500 errors, exceeded heap size, JRun closed connection, etc… The solution I found was to read the file line-by-line using Java and creating blocks of XML [...]

In my post Check If File Is Available I showed a code using the Java method canWrite() to check if the file was available to be worked (read/write). Our colleague Marco Antonio commented that it could cause a race condition, so it is not a good idea to use it for that purpose. Here is a link [...]