Ricardo Parente's Blog

Ubuntu is now an officially support Operating system for ColdFusion 9. This is a guide on installing Apache and ColdFusion 9 on a clean install of Ubuntu 9.04. This starts with a clean install on Ubuntu 9.04 with no additional options selected during the install. If you are planning on running PHP side by side [...]

As I was finishing this guide on installing ColdFusion 9 on Ubuntu Linux I tweeted how many words made up the text (over 6,000). Several people commented on Twitter and Facebook saying things like: “[the length] seems a bit excessive,” and “is it that complicated?” The thing is, I’m covering much more than simply installing [...]

On December 8th at 11AM CST, there will be a free, open to the world, available over Connect, panel discussion with some of the biggest names in the ColdFusion universe. Come with questions, come with answers, but just make sure you show up. The current line up: Andy Allan Adam Lehman Andy Mathews Ben Nadel [...]

Our 12pm (US ET) talk on Thursday Dec 2 will be “Developing Applications for iOS and Android with HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, ColdFusion, and Sencha Touch”. with Steve Drucker. TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker) During this one hour walkthrough you will learn about Sencha Touch – the first mobile application framework built on web standards. [...]

I am going to attempt to broadcast this User Group presentation via WEB-EX for any who need to be at home but would like to attend the meetin anyway. by Tim Cunningham Central Georgia ColdFusion User Group Here is the link to login to the presentation: http://cgcfug.groups.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=post.display&postid=32145

Creating an URL Shortener with ColdFusion There are several sites to use for URL shortening, like tinyUrl.com, is.gd, dwarfURL.com, bit.ly and others. I got a call from a friend who has many articles distributed with short URL and he is afraid if someday those shortening sites go down and his articles will be lost. Therefore, [...]

Announcing a new Meetup for The Online ColdFusion Meetup! What: “Upgrading your site to HTML5″, with Steve Drucker Our 6pm (US ET) talk on Thursday Oct 7 will be “Upgrading your site to HTML5″, with Steve Drucker. (This is a change in plans from the original topic/speaker announced during last week’s session. That speaker has asked [...]

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/