Adobe ColdFusion Anthology: Clear and Concise Concepts from the Fusion Authority

I thought this was a solid piece of work, pulling in a number of great Fusion Authority articles and adding a few new ones where necessary to fill holes. Each section presents a couple of different articles within a related topic and the end result is quite good. People who have been using CF for years may not find much in the Fundamentals section, but maybe the introduction to OOP gives them info they haven't seen or maybe they're still relying on Application.cfm and the overview of Application.cfc may be valuable. Users who are coming from an OOP background might find the Frameworks section useful, with discussions of Coldspring, Reactor, Model-Glue, Mach-II, and more. Including resources on server performance, document manipulation, service integration, and development tools really makes this book useful for nearly any level of CF developer. Last but not least, the book is well assembled and well organized, and the editors have done a good job of ensuring that magazine content was edited to flow in the book format, covering topics from several angles without a lot of content overlap across chapters.If you are looking for a thorough introduction to CF, this is not the book. Just as the title says, this book offers "Clear and Concise Concepts" and it does that well.

The book is on recall - chapter 7 is completely missing! The publisher will put you on a list - when they reprint the corrected edition they replace the defective edition - that will be months away.Well Months have passed and I took the advice of other commentators and I will review the contents, not the lack thereof. It was unfair for me to use the rating system to bash the book when it was just a computer glitch that dropped the phantom chapter.The book is a great addition to any CFML library, it is stuffed with real world scenarios of cfml problem solving, best practices and so much more. Highly informative with nearly endless examples of code, before and after.I rate it a good buy - especially for the professional CFML webmasters, and wannabees like me.

If you are past the introductory phase of learning ColdFusion, then GET THIS BOOK.The whole book is full of info to get one-up-to-speed quickly with current-day practices in ColdFusion programming.I'm particularly impressed with Part 6, which talks about 9, and gives chapters on 8 ColdFusion frameworks.Just for that overview and introduction, the book is well worth it.And yes, I've just received my misprinted book; apparently it skipped the recall.Be sure to ask before you buy, if you want to immediately be able to read Chapter 7 "Image Processing in ColdFusion".Hopefully I'll be able to get some sort of remediation from the publisher for that missing chapter...A great book, even those with the missing chapter.

Best used as a problem solving reference. Did not find any problems with code examples given in the book...good job!

We have a new ColdFusion book! The CF community has not been blessed with an abundency of printed materials, so I was excited when I heard this book was coming out. Adobe ColdFusion Anthology is a compilation of Fusion Authority Quarterly Update articles. FAQU is a great publication that has contributions from many smart ColdFusion developers.This book is 476 and covers a lot of interesting things. I've been using CFCs for years but I learned some new things in Michael Dinowitz's chapters on Components. There are articles on all the major frameworks, there is even one on the new FW/1 framework.Pete Freitag has a good article on image processing that also covers creating your own captchas. Did you know ColdFusion can read EXIF data?!I also found John Mason's article on BlazeDS interesting since I've never used BlazeDS before. I've always been confused about the differences between BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services, and this article helped clear some of that up.This isn't a beginner book, I'll bet every CF developer out there could learn a few things from this book. Also they've done a nice job with the editing, everything is clearly explained.I saw that one of these reviews said that chapter 7 was missing from the book. This is NOT the case with the copy I received, they must have gotten the updated copies out very quickly.

When it comes to technical books of any kind, rarely can one find a single volume that provides the breadth of specific knowledge and expertise found here.The Adobe ColdFusion Anthology taps ColdFusion's brightest minds to provide a thorough and insightful assortment of practical problems and solutions. The menu of topics presented are both broad enough to satisfy the interests of the novice, yet covered deeply enough to provide novel insights to the most seasoned expert. Reading this book is like having forty-two separate one-on-one training sessions with the smartest people in the room at ColdFusion development shops around the world.

One thing has beleaguered the ColdFusion ecosystem: a lack of deep knowledge. This book is a welcome palliative to that. If you're a serious ColdFusion programmer, buying this book should be a no-brainer.

Libro un po' datato ma ricco di spunti importanti e ottimo codice d'esempio. Autori importanti e consigli utili per i propri progetti in ColdFusion