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) talk on Thursday January 26 will be a “Event Gateways”, with Kurt Wiersma. TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker) Have you ever wondered what event gateways are and what they can do for you? If so this session is for you. We will cover how you can use event gateways to execute code asynchronously [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Announcing a new Meetup for The Online ColdFusion Meetup! What: “Why Git? Why Change?”, with Matthew McCullough Our 6pm (US ET) talk on Thursday July 21 will be “Why Git? Why Change?”, with Matthew McCullough. TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker) A new wave of version control systems is sweeping the development community. They are [...]

Announcing a new Meetup for The Online ColdFusion Meetup! What: Online CFMeetup 200th Episode, Special Event Our 12pm (US ET) talk on Thursday July 21 will be a special event, the 200th Episode of the Online CFMeetup. TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker) Join your host Charlie Arehart and fellow members of the Online CFMeetup [...]

Announcing a new Meetup for The Online ColdFusion Meetup! What: “Introduction to Sass (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets)”, with Josh Timonen Our 6pm (US ET) talk on Thursday July 14 will be “Introduction to Sass (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets)”, with Josh Timonen. TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker) Sass has been growing in popularity since Hampton Catlin first introduced it [...]