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Essential ColdFusion 4.5 for Web Professionals
by Micah Brown, Mike Fredrick
List Price: $29.99
Our Price: $29.99
ISBN: 0130406465
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (21 March, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 157,412
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
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Rating: 4 out of 5
Good introduction to CF
I picked up this book for a class project in ColdFusion. It served as a really good introduction - I read through it in a couple of hours. Good book for readability, I wouldn't recommend it if you need a reference book.Doesn't have all the features of the latest ColdFusion MX release but has all the essentials for a simple CF project.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Not the best CF book on the market...
Overall, what I would say about this book is that it's a lot like the other "essential ____ for web professionals," in that it will give you a quick-and-dirty introduction to ColdFusion, but if you are in need of a serious piece of reference material, I'd stick with Forta's "Web Application Construction Kit," or Danesh & Motlagh's "Mastering ColdFusion 4.5." If you need to learn CF in a weekend, and you have a solid background in another web development language, like ASP or JSP, then this book will probably be ok. There are a couple of inaccuracies and misstatements in this book. For example, the authors tell you that if you have a search string in your SQL statement that contains the single quote character, you should use the PreserveSingleQuotes function. This function doesn't work; instead, you should use CFQUERYPARAM. The other complaint I have about this book is that it encourages the use of what I like to call the "bumper car" tags, like CFINSERT and CFTABLE. Encouraging the use of these tags helps perpetuate the belief in the web development community that ColdFusion is to web development what bumper cars are to the automobile. People should hand-code their tables and SQL statements. All that having been said, I would say the "web professionals" series has some fine offerings, including their books on Photoshop and DHTML - if you're like me and you need a quick, intro course without getting too much into the technical minutiae, this is a good series. But, in this case, you probably want to have a more comprehensive reference at your side to get the syntax right.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Good book if you know Coldfusion
This book serves more as a reference for Coldfusion instead of a true tutorial. This book however is extremely useful as it provides real world examples and snips of code that can be used in projects. It is possible to learn Coldfusion through this book, but I recommend another book to really learn the ins and outs of Coldfusion.
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