Ricardo Parente's Blog

I want to apologize for the lack of job postings in these last two weeks. I had to travel unexpectedly to Rio de Janeiro due to my mother’s passing away suddenly. It was a big stress for me and my family. I got back to Orlando this morning The good part of the trip was [...]

I’m back from my 2-week vacation. I purposely haven’t take my laptop with me. Internet access on the cruise was too expensive and I turned myself off completely to enjoy Cozumel, the islands and the Oasis of the Seas, fantastic 17-floor ship. One week cruising and it was not enough to explore the whole ship. [...]

I found this video on YouTube from long time ago when Michael Jackson visited Brazil. He recorded this video clip in a “Favela” (gueto) in Rio de Janeiro, with the participation of a School of Samba, showing “slumbdogs not milionaire” playing their drums and practicing sort of samba.The quality of the video is not good, [...]

Last month, during my vacation in Rio de Janeiro, I took the opportunity to accept an invitation from the educational foundation Dom André Arcoverde in Valença (State of Rio de Janeiro) to talk about current web technology  in the United States. I spoke to the Faculty of Information Technology about ColdFusion and other Adobe products [...]

I’m back from my 3-week vacation in Brazil. Too sad ! I wish I had more weeks to stay on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro and the northeast. Well, I’ll start writing technical articles again, but first let me introduce to you a place for those who want to spend some time in Rio [...]

I had a terrible fllight from Miami to Rio de Janeiro. My flight, American Airlines #905, had to do an unscheduled stop in Manaus (north of Brazil) to allow a passenger who had heart problems to be attended. After 3 hours waiting inside the plane, finally we were cleared to continue the trip. Soon as [...]

Happy New Year to everyone ! It has been 4 years since last time I went to Rio de Janeiro, and now the Carnival approaches and I will miss it  again. A friend sent me several pictures in a Powerpoint presentation with a Bossa Nova song in background just to tease me and I’m sharing some [...]