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Summary: Excellent book on ColdFusion Express
Review: As a professional ColdFusion programmer, I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this book from beginning to end. Ben Forta clearly describes all aspects of the ColdFusion Express application server from installation, CFML (Coldfusion markup language) to administration and security. I have really learned quite a few tricks from reading this book, and I would recommend it to anyone who is considering using ColdFusion platform.
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Summary: Excellent Ben Forta Cold Fusion book
Review: Ben Forta is a rare combination of a technology educator who combines a writing style that is easy for web beginners to understand with cutting edge content that will challenge technology experts. An important reason for the popularity of Cold Fusion as an easy to use web application development tool among web heads is the excellent book by Ben Forta 'Allaire Cold Fusion 4.0'. Ben Forta's latest work 'Sams Teach Yourself Cold Fusion Express' continues that excellent tradition and is highly recommended.
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Summary: The first and only book on the new free ColdFusion Express
Review: ColdFusion Express is a scaled down version of Allaire Corporation's award winning ColdFusion Application Server. Since it's release in 1995, ColdFusion has proven itself to be a fast, efficient, secure, and highly scalable platform on which to build Web applications. And indeed, tens of thousands of organizations and hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide use ColdFusion every say to help shape the future of the Web.ColdFusion is a commercial product, and comes in two flavors: ColdFusion Professional and ColdFusion Enterprise. These products support all the features and technologies needed by application developers. And despite all that power, ColdFusion's claim to fame has always been ease of use. ColdFusion is so easy to learn that most users are up and running writing code in hours, not in days, weeks or months. And with each successive version, ColdFusion becomes even more powerful, and even easier to use. ColdFusion Express is ColdFusion's little brother, a simplified version of the ColdFusion server that is made available to developers at no cost whatsoever. While not as powerful or flexible as ColdFusion, ColdFusion Express does feature the basic technologies that you need to start building Web applications. Using ColdFusion Express you can: * Build dynamic Web pages using databases, conditional processing, and all sorts of data manipulation functions * Create shopping carts, guestbooks, and many other applications * Create secure applications, complete with access control * Implement basic personalization to provide visitors with a more pleasant and rewarding online experience * And much much more. And all at a price that can't be beat. If you want to experience ColdFusion, you can't go wrong with ColdFusion Express. And this book will get you up and running in no time at all. Enjoy!
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Summary: Great into to programming!
Review: I can't say enough good things about this book. I have taken a Cold Fusion class about 2 years ago. This book was so much more helpful than that $2000 class! Ben Forte and Sue Hove ease you into building your application, step by step. It is such an easy process. This is the best way to learn ColdFusion, by using ColdFusion Express for free! I was able to implement the form I needed on my website using Coldfusion Express and MS Access. You can view my pages at kdrdesigns.com/contact.html. Click on the Get Started link. I'm ready to purchase a copy of ColdFusion. I will now look for a book by Ben or Sue to move me to the next level. Good Luck!
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Summary: Great into to programming!
Review: I can't say enough good things about this book. I have taken a Cold Fusion class about 2 years ago. This book was so much more helpful than that $2000 class! Ben Forte and Sue Hove ease you into building your application, step by step. It is such an easy process. This is the best way to learn ColdFusion, by using ColdFusion Express for free! I was able to implement the form I needed on my website using Coldfusion Express and MS Access. You can view my pages at kdrdesigns.com/contact.html. Click on the Get Started link. I'm ready to purchase a copy of ColdFusion. I will now look for a book by Ben or Sue to move me to the next level. Good Luck!
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Summary: This book is a champ!
Review: I have just completed Hour 12. It has taken me many more hours than that! I have found this a very difficult book to study. All but one of the exercises have worked.....five BIG stars for that. The difficulty is that a lot of the language is in a type of double negative which is confusing. I have made corrections to my text on almost every page. Once through that, the content is good. I like the way Ben gives you less information in the later"To Do's". That makes you remember or go back! If it is good, why only 3 stars? ....... <1>It has taken too long. <2>Ben needed a better editor. <3>I would have liked more help with the dreaded ODBC error 22005 in Hour 12 - still have not got it to work after 4 hours of research. <4>On line help would be good SAMS!
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Summary: So far pretty good!
Review: I have just completed Hour 12. It has taken me many more hours than that! I have found this a very difficult book to study. All but one of the exercises have worked.....five BIG stars for that. The difficulty is that a lot of the language is in a type of double negative which is confusing. I have made corrections to my text on almost every page. Once through that, the content is good. I like the way Ben gives you less information in the later"To Do's". That makes you remember or go back! If it is good, why only 3 stars? ....... <1>It has taken too long. <2>Ben needed a better editor. <3>I would have liked more help with the dreaded ODBC error 22005 in Hour 12 - still have not got it to work after 4 hours of research. <4>On line help would be good SAMS!
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Summary: This book is a champ!
Review: I picked up the book over a weekend & was coding on a project the following Monday. My background is in Java application server development & CGI, so web programming isn't new to me. However, I believe this would be a great jumpstart for beginners & more advanced developers alike. The book is a good tutorial & a lightweight reference. Download the cold fusion server documentation for a more complete reference set .... My only complaint is about installing Cold Fusion Express - it doesn't seem to recognize iPlanet or Apache webservers without a bunch of tinkering (I never got it to work) - so you may just want to stick with MS IIS for this version. Cold Fusion 5 is available for evaluation & works great with iPlanet. I would recommend the later if you are just using it as a single developer in a development environment.
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Summary: Excellent Beginners Book
Review: I'm new to Cold Fusion and I spent a couple of hours at B&N yesturday evaluating all the books they had (the Dummies and Quick and Easy books specifically). Forta's book is hand's down the best of the bunch. I agree with the previous reviewer that there are some typos, but when you consider how easy he is to understand - especially compared to what else is out there - this is the book I bought.
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Summary: So Well Written!
Review: The author Ben Forta has done a wonderful job in presenting ColdFusion thru the Express version. Just the right amount of stuff for a beginner. I could not put this book down until i finished reading it! Now I am confident of learning more advance topics and look forward to reading more titles by Mr. Forta.
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