Customer Reviews

Allaire Spectra e-Business Construction Kit with CDROM

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If you are looking for a high-level description of Spectra implementation, this book has about 700 pages more than are necessary--but the other 200 pages will fill in many of the gaps of the Allaire documentation. Easy to read for non-coders, lots of sample code for programmers.

We waited and now it is here A fine read an good depth of discusion regarding the applicaion My intrest was in the Secruity aspects of spectra and I was not disapointed If you are a top notch CF developer Spectra should be you next port of call

Allaire Spectra E-Business Construction Kit teaches Allaire Spectra development from the ground up, primarily from the viewpoint of developers and administrators. A 900 page volume, Allaire Spectra E-Business Construction Kit is divided into multiple sections, starting with high-level concepts and moving on to planning and building an application. Throughout Allaire Spectra E-Business Construction Kit , the reader is presented with not just technical information but also the best practices and business methodologies and how to implement them. Very highly recommended for intermediate to advanced computer students and e-commerce entrepreneurs.

This book did not really live up to my expectations. It was a little confusing, I think because of the number of authors involved. If you are looking for an alternative to the documentation that came with spectra then this could do, but I wouldn't expect much more from it. It also did not touch on some of the advanced features that I would like to learn more about. I'm hoping for an advanced spectra book, until then the standard documentation should do just fine.

One thing I do like is the typical ben forta reference in the back. I wish I could get that part seperately in a handy wire bound notebook or something.

Even though my company decided not to use Spectra we found this book to be fairly helpful in allowing us to determine the softwares good and bad sides.

This book didn't meet my expectations. To start, the UI of the webtop in spectra 1.5 has been considerably modified from 1.0 in a number of areas. The book examples often don't match up with the new UI. Second, the book seems to be cobbled together without much cohesion. Trying to create the sample app has become a contest to see if you can figure out what they want you to do. Since there aren't a whole lot of books out there on spectra, this may be your only recourse but don't expect too much.

I am a good Cold Fusion developer today because Ben Forta wrote a couple of amazing CF books. Thanks to those two books, I was generating a very admirable income writing CF sites within weeks of buying them. So my question is this: how can this book be so bad? The book seems thrown together and unfocused. I won't even get into the errors. Do yourself a favor, read the manuals that ship with Spectra. You'll get a lot more out of them than this book.

Again Mr. Forta delivered another reference for developing web-applications on the Allaire Platform. This is a must have for all Allaire Spectra Developers.

This book was definately needed in the world of Spectra. I think that it was very helpful to the majority of Developers that have read and used the examples.

But, there are quite a few mistakes throughout, and seemed somewhat rushed. I can't wait until the next book comes out!

I was waiting for such a book, which could give me a hint on how to continue my ColdFusion work with Allaire Spectra as Allaire docs are quite poor and here the solution comes...