Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Web Application Construction Kit

by Ben Forta, Raymond Camden, Leon Chalnick

With more than 75 of the Fortune 100 companies using it (and more than 10,000 organizations employing it worldwide), it’s pretty much a given that if you’re developing applications for the Web, you’re going to need to know ColdFusion at some point! Not to Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Web Application Construction Kit provides everything you need to start creating Web-based applications immediately—including the latest version of the ColdFusion Web Application Server and development environment. Author and ColdFusion master Ben Forta starts by covering the fundamentals of Web-based database design and then proceeds to show you how to do everything from create data-driven pages to build complete applications, implement security mechanisms, integrate with e-mail, interact with Macromedia Flash, and more. From design and installation to application deployment and troubleshooting, this guide’s got ColdFusion covered, including all the features new to the latest structured business reports, rich forms, Enterprise Manager (which lets users cluster multiple ColdFusion servers on a single machine), and more!

Genres: Reference, Technology

1440 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Ben Forta is an author and Senior Technical Evangelist for Adobe Systems, particularly ColdFusion and Flex, and the owner of EmTek Systems. He previously worked in a similar capacity for Macromedia and Allaire Corporation, the two previous owners of ColdFusion.

In addition to writing numerous technical books on ColdFusion, SQL, and Regular Expressions, Forta co-authored Adobe's official ColdFusion training materials and certification tests and lectures on application development around the world. Many of his books have been translated into over a dozen languages worldwide.

Before working for Allaire, he founded the website Car.com, which was later purchased by Auto-By-Tel. Born in London, England, Forta lives in Oak Park, Michigan with his wife and their children.

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Reviews

[Scott · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an excellent guide to ColdFusion. I used it to teach myslef Coldfusion in order to interview for a programming job. I did not get the job, but I now have ColdFusion added to my list of programming skills.

[Savitri · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great reference book. I'm not CF expert so I can't review it in depth but what I can tell you is that it has helped me a lot when I have to start a project and I haven't seen a CF code in 6-months. For me it's a nice refresher book.

[Raoul Pop · Rating 5 out of 5]

The complete book on CF development, aka the CF bible.