Customer Reviews

Macromedia Coldfusion 5 Language Reference

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I have a strong love/hate relationship with this book. I use it daily, and it holds place of honor on my desk, for it CONTAINS everything you need to know about ColdFusion.

But USING it is another matter. This volume would be far more usable had the book design team realized they were publishing a reference book. There are no page headers, so readers must fumble through pages looking for entries, some of the starting a mere 4 lines from the bottom of the page. Buy it, and use it. And weep.

While this reference contains all the functions/tags/variables/etc. used in ColdFusion, the book could use better/innovative examples. At first glance, I was surprised at the size of the book. How can someone fit so much in such a small book? Then I decided to browse through it and noticed that examples were the size of a bacteria, especially for those on functions. I would've loved if the book had better and more innovative examples, rather than the way it's currently presented. However, the book is still VERY useful for a quick reference. It's a good price too. I recommend it.

As a long time Cold Fusion developer, remembering syntax for every tag and function is almost impossible. This little book is great a great reference for quick lookups of tags & functions. A must buy for the serious Cold Fusion developer.

I really got spoiled having this reference in addition to Macromedia's livedocs. I was VERY disappointed when their was not an MX version of this same book. I've written to both Ben Forta and Macromedia Press asking for an MX 7 Language Reference. Ben Forta is very supportive of the idea and said Macromedia Press isn't interested due to poor sales of this book. However, I would throw it back to Macromedia Press and say that this edition for ColdFusion 5 was poorly marketed as I didn't know it even existed until I searched online in hopes of finding a ColdFusion Language Reference. This is a GREAT book and it needs to be kept up to date (and I agree as the reviewer below that it does need more examples!). I hope you'll join the bandwagon and write to Macromedia for the next version!