Rating: Summary: The book you can't miss Review: Ben Forta's original book on Cold Fusion brought new level of excellence to this type of books and helped Cold Fusion to become popular. Now his original books has been updated to version 4 of Cold Fusion and this new, advanced book has been written. The clarity and depth of this book is again outstanding. What experienced web consultants missed in the original book after extensive work with Cold Fusion is now here in Ben's sharply clear writing style. Cold Fusion has developed into a large-scale, entreprise wide application server, and this book shows you not only how to benefit from it, but also lets you have fun in doing so. You will become quickly productive and suprised by what advanced Cold Fusion developers can achieve. I was fortunate to have a preview of this book and learn what advanced computers books for the web professional are supposed to be like. This book is crucial in my professional activities as a Web Consultant at my company Kreatis and you will discover it to be vital to your career in Web Technology too. Even if you are not using Cold Fusion now, you can hardly afford to miss this book: it is also a primer on the direction that application servers are taking in the mature age of the Internet. Excellent.
Rating: Summary: A very Definitive Book for Cold Fusion Development Review: Forta has done it again. This book is a definite must have for any Cold Fusion Developer. Most problems that you have, of an advanced nature will be answered by this book. Definitely on my "A" list of web development books.
Rating: Summary: Thin on a number of subjects, but overall a good book. Review: I found this book a bit disappointing. As the owner of all of Ben's other books, I was expecting the "Advanced" version to cover some of the technical details and applications in a more complete manor.For example, the section on the CFFTP tag is just a rehash of the Allaire documentation. Also, this tag used to be in the Web Application Construction Kit, but is no longer covered there. Also, I realize that this book is seperate from the Web Application Construction Kit, but was it really necessary to include the same Tag and Function reference in both books? If you own both books, the extra 200+ pages is a bit excessive. Don't get me wrong, this book does contain several good chapters on topics like scalability, WDDX and a host of other technologies, I'm just disappointed that it left me wanting for more...
Rating: Summary: Too many coding errors Review: I was upset after I found so many coding errors in this book. Ben Forta usually displays excellent language and instructional techniques in his books. However, this one was a let down. Most everything can be learned from the Cold Fusion manuals distributed with the software and this book is not worth the money spent.
Rating: Summary: Straight from the manual Review: I've been programming ColdFusion for almost 2 years now, and the lack of good programming books in this great web development language is unfortunate. Forta's books on Cold Fusion are a scam...they mirror the manuals that come with the product almost perfectly. He may change the table names and databases, but he gives the same number of examples for each topic...
Rating: Summary: This book lacks in simple database principles. Review: I've found this book somewhat incomplete. You can find better information about tags within the Cold Fusion Studio tags help. For instance the lack of trying to figure out how to dynamicly loop, and display values from a returned recordset. It only shows how to display hard coded values like #fieldname# not query. and then the dynamic name. There was no mention of columnlist after your query or anything. It basically just shows tons of hard coding which I find incomplete. For an advanced book it should have contained much much more. Ben Forta its not that great
Rating: Summary: Allaire's ColdFusion evangelist? Review: JJ Allaire - founder of Allaire Corporation - describes Ben Forta as their ColdFusion evangelist (guru/expert/sage). He certainly deserves the title as this book is proof of his knowledge and expertise with the ColdFusion platform. If you are serious about ColdFusion development, hey - if you purchased the product you must be - this book is an essential reference. Although the documentation provided with the original software far exceeds what you would normally get from, say, Micro$oft, you still NEED this book. Its a big book but it is not short on quality information with real life examples. It's the bible for ColdFusion 4.0 and then some. Thanks to Ben's book I'm earning substantial commissions for my employer for developing CF sites. ColdFusion makes it easy. This book shows you how easy it really can be. The custom tags provided on the enclosed CD-ROM are very useful (perhaps more for US customers than elsewhere) and add value to an already capital investment. Hide this one from fellow CF developers or you will never see it again! Ideal for beginners and a very handy reference for expert users also.
Rating: Summary: A must read book Review: This book covers many advanced topics. WDDX is one of them as writer went deep into this technology. You will also find some good information on custom tags. You will really get disappointed if you try to find information on COM and CORBA. I think write should either include more information or should not present these topics just to fill some pages. Overall this book has worth and a must to buy.
Rating: Summary: The best you can find. Review: This book was more valuable to me than any allaire class. Sometimes I wish it explained concepts that might be new for non-traditional programmers, but overall the book is wonderful.
Rating: Summary: The best you can find. Review: This book was more valuable to me than any allaire class. Sometimes I wish it explained concepts that might be new for non-traditional programmers, but overall the book is wonderful.
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