Ricardo Parente's Blog

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, 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/  

ColdFusion Developer Week is a series of free, live webinars hosted by seasoned ColdFusion experts who will cover a wide range of topics from what ColdFusion is, how to code it, all the way through to more in depth topics such as ORM and ColdFusion Builder Extensions. If you are a new developer, someone with [...]

Our 12pm (US ET) talk on Thursday August 18 will be “Relax, It’s Only Data! A Gentle Introduction to CouchDB”, with Matt Woodward. TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker) CouchDB is a document-oriented, schemaless, “NoSQL” database built entirely around standard Web technologies such as HTTP, REST, JSON, and JavaScript. CouchDB has been described as being [...]

Our 12pm (US ET) talk on Thursday August 11 will be “Introduction to Caching”, with Daria Norris. TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker) Caching is such a deep and complex subject that it can be difficult to know where to begin. This session will cover the basics of caching in ColdFusion from using page and [...]

I’ll be presenting at RIAcon next weekend: “CF911 ColdFusion Performance Report 2011″ URL: http://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2011/7/30/speaking_at_riacon I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be presenting at next week’s RIAconconference in the DC area, August 6-7 2011. My session will be “CF911 ColdFusion Performance Report 2011“, a new talk/concept I’ve created. Here’s the description: Starting a new tradition, veteran CF troubleshooter [...]

This week’s ColdBox Connection will be our first hosted by a ColdBox Community Member! The ColdBox Team is stepping back give Ben Laube an opportunity to help remind us of the basics as he presents “Introduction to ColdBox”. If you have been thinking about getting started with ColdBox and wanted to know the easiest way [...]

Announcing a new Meetup for The Online ColdFusion Meetup! What: “Replace Your Iron with a Cloud”, with Barney Boisvert Our 6pm (US ET) talk on Thursday August 4 will be “Replace Your Iron with a Cloud”, with Barney Boisvert. TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker) At Mentor Graphics we’ve just completed the process of moving a number of applications, [...]

Announcing a new Meetup for The Online ColdFusion Meetup! What: Discover jQuery using the jQuery Matrix, with Phillip Senn Our 12pm (US ET) talk on Thursday August 4 will be “Discover jQuery using the jQuery Matrix”, with Phillip Senn. TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker) Are you new to jQuery, or still learning the syntax? If so, Phillip Senn [...]