Ricardo Parente's Blog

Adobe ColdFusion 9.0.1 is a giant release of enhancements along with a few important bug fixes. The enhancements run the gamut from small tweaks to near full-fledged features. The ColdFusion team fixed over 170 individual bugs in this release, in addition to the enhancements the team added. See Terence Ryan’s article on “What’s New in [...]

Congratulations to all Spanish people for winning the Soccer World Cup yesterday against Netherlands. The game was tense, both teams played very well. Too bad for me Brazil went home early, but, that’s the game, the best wins. I hope we can play better the next one in 2014 in Rio de Janeiro.

We were happy today at the office when we saw the news from France. Our website was considered in the first 5 best real estate sites in France by L’Express and they qualified us as “plus Geek” which means “more geek” than the others. Here is the snippet of the news page: ERA is perhaps [...]

Adobe launched the first Hot Fix for ColdFusion 9. Update your server here.

The bane of all mobile app developers is the need to rewrite the same app over and over again for different devices: the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm Pre, Nokia, Windows Mobile. Adobe is positioning its Flash platform (which includes the Flash player, AIR, developer tools, and media servers) as the write-once, deploy-anywhere solution for both [...]

In this interview, recorded at CFinNC 2009, Dan Wilson speaks with ColdFusion Product Manager Adam Lehman on the rebirth of the ColdFusion platform. Evolving from its early days as a C++ product, to becoming a fully Java-based implementation for the enterprise, ColdFusion today commands a growing community of 800,000 developers. The language-become-platform is being touted [...]

Mozilla confirmed this week that they were not capable of detecting malware disguised as two add-ons for Firefox: Sothink Web Video Downloader 4.0 and Master File. According to the company, the trojan horses infected about 6,600 PCs, but they were already removed from the official add-ons site for Firefox. You may read more about this [...]

Avatar’s data center has more than 4,000 HP blade servers, in a 10,000 sqf datacenter in New Zealand (Weta Digital Ltd). They utilized 104TB of RAM with about 35,000 processors. Each minute of Avatar represents 17.28GB of data. It is the same company that produced the 3d rendering of Lord of the Rings. See the [...]

SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan 25, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTU), the people behind BIRT, today issued a challenge to developers familiar with Adobe or BIRT: to combine BIRT and Adobe technologies in powerful and innovative ways. The Get BIRT-y with Flash and Flex Contest offers a cash prize of up to $5,000 and all [...]

From the SkyNews: Dominic Hargreaves’s bike, The Contortionist, has been shortlisted for this year’s James Dyson Award for innovation. It takes around 20 seconds to fold down. It may bag the young inventor £10,000.