Programming Books

Written by ColdFusion expert John Farrar, ColdFusion 8 Developer Tutorial will teach users to integrate ColdFusion with other web 2.0 technologies to create web applications. New features of ColdFusion 8 Update 1 along with topics like AJAX library integration, RESTful Web Services, PDF creation and manipulation, and dynamically generated presentation files are covered in this book. Users will also learn about the basics of ColdFusion programming, application architecture, and object reuse. Packed with examples, careful explanations and an emphasis on real-world skills, this book leads users through all the topics relevant to today's ColdFusion developer. Developers looking to get a good grounding in the basics of the language and putting a site together will find this book ideal. This book is published and is available with Packt. To read more about the book, please visit: http://www.packtpub.com/c oldfusion-8-developer-tut orial/book

Professional ColdFusion 5.0 Programming will provide a comprehensive practical guide to developing and deploying web and e-commerce applications with ColdFusion 5.0, including integrating ColdFusion with databases, email, XML and more. Covering both ColdFusion Studio and ColdFusion Server. The book will begin with a detailed examination of the ColdFusion environment, and introduce CFML. A number of applications will be built, illustrating the different tools and features, before moving on to discuss incorporating databases and e-commerce considerations. There will follow in-depth examples of integrating ColdFusion with Java, COM, CORBA, XML and WAP/WML. The book will conclude with discussion of scalability, security and performance.

This book has been written with all levels of ColdFusion expertise in mind. From the beginner to the advanced user, all readers will find this book useful. It contains content provided by some of the most respected CF developers around. 4 Team Allaire members and 2 Allaire Certified Instructors contributed to this book. If you've never used ColdFusion before and wonder whether you should...this book will show you how easy and yet extremely powerful your CF-driven applications can be. All that is required is background knowledge of HTML. Topics covered: Topics covered: ColdFusion templates, functions, variables, flow control, SQL queries, forms/form validation, ColdFusion Web Application Framework, e-mail, FTP, LDAP, search-engine implementation, custom tags, and ColdFusion Administrator.

Sams Teach Yourself ColdFusion in 21 Days quickly empowers you to create your own dynamic database-driven Web applications using Allaire's ColdFusion. Using client-proven methods, and the success of his popular ColdFusion tutorial for Wired, expert author Charles Mohnike provides you with an understanding of the ColdFusion Server and guides you through the use of the ColdFusion Studio, enabling you to create your own ColdFusion applications quickly and easily. Topics such as installing and configuring the ColdFusion Server, working with the ColdFusion Studio, working with SQL, optimizing your datasource, understanding templates and ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML), using ColdFusion tags, manipulating data, creating e-commerce solutions with ColdFusion, and debugging ColdFusion applications.