Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.758
EAN: 9780321515469
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0321515463
Label: Adobe Press
Manufacturer: Adobe Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 552
Publication Date: December 09, 2007
Publisher: Adobe Press
Studio: Adobe Press
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ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 2: Application Development begins by introducing important code organization and management techniques, and then progresses to topics that include integrating with all sorts of other technologies (including PDF, Adobe Flex, Ajax, advanced SQL and databases), debugging, and optimizing performance. From design and planning, to application deployment and troubleshooting, this instructional reference is all you need to successfully work, create, and progress with ColdFusion 8, the the most important ColdFusion since the product was created back in 1995
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Having used the previous edition of this series (7MX), this edition turned out to be a bit of a disappointment. It looks like the publisher compromised on quality rather than on release date. Points to note before you buy this:
- Some of the chapters are to be downloaded as PDF's. These chapters are not just some appendixes or add-ons covering bonus topics. These are integral parts of the book. In fact, it would be hard to guess why one chapter made it to the book while another did not. Why, for example, put information on the basics and good practices of web development in the book, but leave information on using ColdFusion to consume web services to the downloadable PDF's?
It would make more sense to make the books a little thicker, or to create a volume 4. If cost consideration are at the heart of this decission, then why print a book in the first place? Unable to decide on making a book or a site, the publisher mixed the two up in an unfortunate way. Puzzeling ... Read More
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It's a good book. You'll see components, session, security, JSON, cookies, performance, manipulate images, well.. getting more deep into the application. You will also see some Ajax and Flex integration.
I wish this book could have more about ColdFusion AJAX and Flex working together, but I guess it should have another book just focused on those technologies (CF+Ajax+Flex). ColdFusion 8's new Ajax/Flex features are great. For intermediate programmers, it's worth.
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I love Ray Camden's work, and this book is no exception. He has a straightforward writing style with lots of examples to back it up. CF8 has a lot of new features, and if you work with CF8, this is the reference set to start with. If you have prior works, you'll continue to love it, though you'll rapidly get sick of the old 'Orange Whip Studios' sample.
Now the bad part. For some reason the publisher split this into 3 separate books. If I pile them all up they are about the same size as the last single CF book I bought by Ray, except that you now pay over twice as much. Myself, I'd rather have the single big book.
Second grief; about 1/3 of the content is on CD... except it isn't on CD's... You have to download the PDFs from Ray's site. Personally, I hate electronic copy for reference books, I like to flip between pages and dog ear topics of interest. The publisher did the same thing in the prior versions of this book, though at least they had the dignity to ... Read More
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I have almost every book that Ben Forta has written on ColdFusion and have been a big fan of his teaching and writing style but this book is a big disappointment to me.
Firstly, I did not purchase volume 1 since I already have a basic working knowledge CF thanks to his previous books and at the current prices didn't think I needed a reprise. Vol 2 appeared to cover the new CF8 features but it appparently is not a stand-alone version since there were no instructions as to where to obtain and install the sample code and tutorials used in the book. I finally found the link on the back cover, visited the Forta/book site and accessed the forum. I found the supporting files to Vol 2, downloaded and installed them, then discovered that I apparently needed databases and files included in previous books. Not only that, but to "reduce the price" of the book, half the chapters are online.
Chapt 29 spent a great deal of Page space (which seems to be at a premium) expounding on ... Read More
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This book is well written. I've been working with CF more and more over the last 4 or 5 years and I've been buying this family of books since version 6. As with earlier versions, this family of books for CF 8 has definitely helped me get started with new features and I regularly consult them for ideas as I need to integrate new features into various ongoing projects and existing applications.
This book does a good job of introducing concepts related to the new display management tags (cflayout, cflayoutarea, cfpod, etc.) and the new image handling tags. It stays within the scope of what the majority of advanced level CF developers need to know when leaping from CFMX7 to CF8.
I do wish that the book approached AJAX development by threading the examples together in a "build this small application" style format rather than the way they're laid out now which is "here is a random example of how to use cfmenu, cfajaxproxy, etc.". It is only fair to mention that the Getting ... Read More
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