Programming Coldfusion

By Rob Brooks-Bilson

ColdFusion is a powerful platform for creating and deploying dynamic web applications. Developers like ColdFusion because its simple, tag-based language makes it easy to handle simple tasks, like... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565926986
• ISBN13: 9781565926981
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES
• Length: 976 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 1.7" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

You are only as good as the tools you use.

Being a server-side tool, you will find that it is not easy to find an environment that will allow you to apply ColdFusion. The book is comprehensive on ColdFusion. A side benefit of the book is that it describes the environment in which ColdFusion works. This helped with better web design. Yet the real worth for me is the thorough coverage of LPAP. I keep this book as a reference in case I need to talk to any ColdFusion folk. However, as I stated above, the book covers many subjects better than dedicated books.

From beginner to advanced, - it's got it all

One of the criteria when I was buying a CF book was that I wanted it to be easy enough to learn ColdFusion from scratch, but also give me the needed advanced details. I've done a bit of HTML and programming, so I usually I pick this stuff up pretty quickly and i don't want to be buying a beginner book and advanced book. This book gave me just what I needed and it was easy to read, too. It wasn't overboard on the tech, but it wasn't too far abstracted from the needed concepts of how stuff works. I'd definately recommend it for people that are getting into ColdFusion and I'd also recommend it for the intermediate CF programmer.

Look no further. This is the book.

I am a web developer building applications with ColdFusion. I've never before thought of a computer reference as "exciting", but the first time I looked in this book I found solutions to three problems, all clearly explained and with no extraneous fluff. This book saved me a mountain of time and paid for itself the first time I opened it. Now thats a cheap thrill!Were I marooned on a desert island I'd want this book.Programming ColdFusion is a real pleasure and a distinct credit to O'Reilly, Rob Brooks-Bilson, Paula Ferguson, Laura Lewin and Mary Anne Weeks Mayo.

Better Than Forta

I used the Forta 4.0 books for 2 years, was happy with them and was prepared to purchase his 5.0 book. Upon looking through the O'Reilly book and the Forta 5.0 at the bookstore, however, I found the O'Reilly to be superior for an experienced CF programmer. First of all the Forta is too big. Picking it up and sifting through it is cumbersome. Also, Forta removed the extended appendix explanations of each tag and function (present in the 4.0 version). The O'Reilly book has the detailed appendix, which is essential for reference. The O'Reilly is strictly about programming and much of the super basic stuff is skipped. Overall, the explanations and writing style are very good. There are some good tips on advanced topics, too. If you have some CF experience, I would get this book. Otherwise go with the Forta. A major complaint I have about both books is that there is nothing on xml parsing.

My NEW ColdFusion bible

I received my copy of Programming ColdFusion about a week ago. I didn't even know O'Reilly had a ColdFusion book until I saw a ColdFusion article featured on their web site.Anyhow, I just finished reading it from cover to cover today and have to say that it is absolutely hands down THE BEST ColdFusion book on the market. I have all of the Forta books. I have the Wrox book, and while they are all great in their own respects, the O'Reilly book completely rocks! Every chapter is well written and the book flows nicely from one chapter to the next - the result of having a single author as opposed to 5-10 like most of the other ColdFusion books. Rob gives indepth coverage to several topics usually skimmed over by the other ColdFusion authors such as LDAP, Verity, and regular expressions. His coverage of user defined funcitons is excellent as is the cflib.org site he hosts. The tag reference and function reference are awesome. Much more convenient than the online docs and the examples actually work! Programming ColdFusion has become my NEW ColdFusion bible!

A must addition to you ColdFusion library!

Front the first chapter, this book reads and flows easily. I find it, so far the best one out there for the reason it JUST covers straight programming CF. Not Studio or the server. Just straight 900 pages of pure CF programming. From basic to advanced, "LDAP, Verity (including the new K2-limited that comes in CF v5.0, CFSCRIPT, custom tags, WDDX, Graphing (new server side graphing and charting in CF 5) to name a few. I wholly recommend going out and adding this book to your collection.