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ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial

By : John Farrar
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ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial

By: John Farrar

Overview of this book

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. However, developing rich and robust web applications can be a real challenge as it involves multiple processes.With this practical guide, you will learn how to build professional ColdFusion applications. Packed with example code, and written in a friendly, easy-to-read style, this book is just what you need if you are serious about ColdFusion.This book will give you clear, concise, and practical guidance to take you from the basics of ColdFusion 9 to the skills that will make you a ColdFusion developer to be reckoned with. It also covers the new features of ColdFusion 9 like ORM Database Interaction and CF Builder.ColdFusion expert John Farrar will teach you 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 9.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Happily separated


Now let's get back to the subject of the challenges with building software. This will help us see the power and reason for a library like this. One of the biggest issues we faced was getting the designer and developer workflow to please both sides of a project team. As we worked with designers over the years, they often expressed frustration dealing with spaghetti code and confusion caused by building design markup around our coding logic. At the same time, developers like me were frustrated when designers would move stuff around to make the page look right and break my programming logic. It became apparent that what we needed was for us to separate.

What type of separation? This didn't mean the designers getting rid of the developers or the other way around. What we needed was a way to write the code so there were far less issues and conflicts. The logic should be collected in one place and the presentation in another. We have CSS and other things that help with this goal...