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

Michael Dinowitz (Author), Judith Dinowitz (Author)

Book Description

Release date: April 30, 2010 | ISBN-10: 1430272155 | ISBN-13: 978-1430272151 | Edition: 1

Adobe ColdFusion remains one of today’s significant Web services tools and frameworks, and stands to become even more important as a possible primary tool for cloud development as well. As important as ColdFusion is and continues to become, we thought it would be a good idea to tap the leading authority on ColdFusion, the Fusion Authority. We asked this community to compile the most important issues in their developer and user experiences into one single volume—an anthology of the most current technical articles published in the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update.

In it, you’ll get the following:

• The best and brightest ColdFusion expertise available today, from inside and outside of Adobe
• The most up-to-date content with the latest releases of ColdFusion
• Case studies and instances where ColdFusion is used in cloud-based development

Rather than take a soup-to-nuts approach that covers every single topic, including those that most people have learned already, this book takes specific items of interest and explains them so that you can hit the ground running, rather than having to wait until you’ve read the entire book.

What you’ll learn

• Why ColdFusion is important for your Web Services and cloud application development
• How the latest versions of ColdFusion can build cloud applications
• How to integrate the latest ColdFusion has to offer with Flex and other Adobe tools in your workflow
• How to use ColdFusion in pragmatic ways through examples, illustrations, and case studies
• How to implement ColdFusion best practices, testing techniques, and more

Who this book is for

This book is tailored for ColdFusion developers specifically, but many articles may be of use to general programmers as well.

Table of Contents

1. Working with Applicationcfc
2. Applicationcfc Reference
3. From User-Defined Functions to ColdFusion Components
4. onMissingTemplate()— Error Handler and So Much More
5. “Say What?” Handling Unknown Messages with onMissingMethod()
6. PDF Support in ColdFusion
7. Image Processing in ColdFusion
8. Tuning Your Java Virtual Machine: Finding Your Ideal JVM Settings Through Metrics Log Analysis
9. The Shoemaker and the Asynchronous Process Elves
10. Asynchronous Gateways Step-by-Step
11. You Might Have a Performance Bottleneck If...
12. An Introduction to Consuming and Deploying Web Services in ColdFusion
13. Web Services and Complex Types
14. Type Validation When Returning an Array of Components
15. Sending E-mail the Right Way
16. ColdFusion and Microsoft Exchange
17. BlazeDS
18. Object-Oriented Programming: Why Bother?
19. The Object-Oriented Lexicon
20. Design Patterns: Exposing the Service Layer
21. Beans and DAOs and Gateways, Oh My!
22. SOA for the Rest of Us
23. How Base Classes Can Help You Generate Your Applications
24. An Introduction to Frameworks
25. Fusebox 5 Fundamentals
26. Mach-II Fundamentals
27. Model-Glue Fundamentals
28. ColdSpring Fundamentals
29. Reactor Fundamentals
30. Developing Applications with Transfer
31. FW/1: The Invisible Framework
32. Separating Layout from Logic
33. Creating Dynamic Presentations in ColdFusion
34. Working with JSON and cfajaxproxy
35. Prototyping for Interface Driven Architecture: Easing the Transition from Prototype to Application
36. Turbo Charging Eclipse
37. An Introduction to ColdFusion Builder
38. The ColdFusion Debugger Explained: Interactive Step Debugging for ColdFusion 8 and 9
39. Getting Started with Subversion
40. Subversion in the Workflow
41. Advanced Subversion
42. Automating Your Development with Ant

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Michael Dinowitz is the primary author and has been using ColdFusion since the original beta. He's well known for taking complex topics and explaining them in simple terms without losing their full power. Other authors are also selected from the top tier of the ColdFusion development world.

Judith Dinowitz is the master editor-in-chief of the House of Fusion magazines and journals, where she enjoys serving up ColdFusion and Flex goodness on a weekly and quarterly basis.

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (April 30, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1430272155
• ISBN-13: 978-1430272151
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 1.1 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #654,261 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #12 in Books > Computers & Technology > Web Development & Design > Programming > Cold Fusion

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Great CF book - will keep this on my shelf June 29, 2010

By Ryan Stille

Format:Paperback

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Cream Of The Crop May 18, 2010

By Clark V. Valberg

Format:Paperback

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.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Top notch resource for ColdFusion programmers April 30, 2010

By Hal Helms

Format:Paperback

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.