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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

A son's view of testing


Let me introduce my son. Timothy is a developer who has been working with ColdFusion for years now. We created the COOP library together. He did by far most of the coding as part of his apprenticeship training. While we were coding, it occurred to me that we were having some issues that could be solved by creating unit tests. Fathers are prone to push children into things they are only going to do because they want to get along with their parents. Well, he took to testing to his surprise, and to my surprise.

We both started with CFCUnit and CFUnit. They were the ground breakers and deserve high praise for introducing the community to this concept. There have been other fine works also. When we found MXUnit, we found what we were looking for in a unit testing solution. We needed something that would work with COOP and do our regression testing. Though I had more experience with software and object design, my son's work inspired me to do more unit test integration. They...