ColdFusion 8 Developer Tutorial

by John Farrar

Adobe ColdFusion is an application server, renowned for rapid development of dynamic websites, with a straightforward language (CFML), powerful methods for packaging and reusing your code, and AJAX support that will get developers deep into powerful web applications quickly. This book is the most intense guide to creating professional ColdFusion applications available. Packed with example code, and written in a friendly, easy-to-read style, this book is just want you need if you are serious about ColdFusion. This book will give you clear, concise and, of course, practical guidance to take you from the basics of ColdFusion 8 to the skills that will make you a ColdFusion developer to be reckoned with. ColdFusion expert John Farrar will teach you how about the basics of ColdFusion programming, application architecture, and object reuse, before showing you a range of topics including AJAX library integration, RESTful Web Services, PDF creation and manipulation, and dynamically generated presentation files that will make you the toast of your ColdFusion developer town. This book digs deep with the basics, with real-world examples of the how and whys, to get more done faster with ColdFusion 8. This book also covers the new features of ColdFusion 8 Update 1.

382 pages, Paperback

First published February 7, 2008

About the author

John Farrar is the owner of SOSensible. His work includes doing projects for Apple, Johnson Controls, Sprint vendor integration to many projects for small business applications. He is a skilled ColdFusion (since version 4.5), AJAX/JavaScript (including jQuery) business application developer and consultant. He also supports the community as an Adobe User Group manager and a conference speaker. His work was honored by Adobe adding him to the official list of "Adobe Community Experts" in 2009. He has also created a number of free open source projects to assist others in day to day struggles of software development.