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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

The fun factor


Years ago, we started noting things that were frustrating in software development and taking time to figure out ways to adjust the fun factor. We looked at the advances in technology such as the mobile phones that operate on touch screens. People actually enjoy using them so much that they pay more for the fun factor even though they don't actually need them all the time. Shouldn't our software development work to achieve the same thing? Not everything will be fun, but with technology it makes sense for things to continue to move in that direction. Happy developers are more productive and focused.

Our first block of code will require a simple shift in thinking. Strangely, these few simple shifts in thinking are all that it takes to put the fun factor back into much of our routine coding. We start with a <cfimport> tag that assigns the tag prefix for our code. This means all the tags are simply files in that directory. It is an alternative to using CFModule or using the...