As much as I’d like to be able to produce completely error free books, the reality of the computer publishing industry is that the pace at which books must be written and released makes this very difficult. And regretfully, my own books do have sporadic mistakes and typos scattered throughout them.
For the benefit of my readers, here is a current errata for Certified Macromedia ColdFusion MX Developer Study Guide. Feel free to print this page for future reference.
And as always, if you come across errors that I do not know about, please let me know. I’ll make sure they are added to this list, and will try to have them corrected in future reprints.
Original printing (426 pages, published January 15, 2003)
| Page | Location | Correction |
|---|---|---|
| 33 | Caution text, “1 to 5” and “1 to 4”. | Should be: “0 to 5” and “0 to 4” |
| 40 | Tip at top of page, “the TEMPLATE attribute”. | Should be: the URL attribute. |
| 44 | Table 5.3, RESET attribute. | Default is YES. |
| 44 | Table 5.3, TYPE attribute, second sentance. | This belongs in the FILE attribute. |
| 57 | Code example, CFQUERY tag | Missing closing tag. |
| 62 | Code block, CFQUERY name attribute | Should be: Users |
| 63 | Final bullet item | Should be: IS NULL |
| 63 | Last bullet item. | Should be: IS NULL |
| 73 | Line of code in tip at bottom of page. | # is extraneous and should not be present. |
| 74 | Code snippet above last tip, middle line. | Extraneous space between # and CountryID |
| 79 | Second note, second line, words “the browser collects”. | Should be: “ColdFusion collects”. |
| 95 | Caution | This no longer applies as of CFMX. |
| 112 | Note, second line: a,,b | Should have s apace in between the commas: a, ,b |
| 121 | First paragraph, text “which places values at the beginning or end of the array”. | Should be: “which places values at the end of beginning of the array”. |
| 128 | Final code snippet, third line from the bottom. | email should be in quotes: “email” |
| 139 | First line following first script block: uno | Should be: In Spanish, the number one is ‘uno.’ |
| 140 | Note, send line: is or if | Should be: is or lt |
| 145 | Question 3, code snippet. | Hyphens before and after “World” and “Hello” should be removed. |
| 156 | Note, text “when one record”. | Should be: when one recordset |
| 157 | Code snippet at top of page, query name in CFOUTPUT. | Should be: qItemsInStock |
| 160 | Second note, words “READ COMMITTED”. | Should be: “READ_UNCOMMITTED”. |
| 166 | Question 4, answer B. | Should be: “REPEATABLE_READ”. |
| 175 | Question 2, answer A. | Should read “Use it twice and subtract the first reading from the second”. |
| 178 | Table 21.2, description of variable Error.GeneratedContent. | Word “request’s” is repeated, should only appear once. |
| 178 | Table 21.2, second sentence of description of variable Error.HTTPReferer. | Should read “This will be an empty string if there is no referrer”. |
| 181 | Tip at bottom on page. | The tip only applies to ColdFusion 5 and earlier, it does not apply to ColdFusion MX (ColdFusion MX locates the best match regardless of sequence). |
| 204 | Question 3, answer A. | Missing ATTRIBUTES. prefix. |
| 204 | Question 3, answer D. | Missing trailing “> |
| 210 | First code snippet, first CFSET tag, GetParentTagVars | Should be: stGetParentTagVars |
| 217 | Section “Variable Parameter Lists, 3rd line, text: tab-based | Should be: tag-based |
| 218 | Code example at top of page, second line. | Should read: function functionName() |
| 228 | First line following the note, text “that they need be”. | Should read: “that they need not be”. |
| 230 | First bullet, text “an invoke”. | Should be: and invoke |
| 230 | 2nd to last paragraph: syntax, and methods | Should be: syntax, methods |
| 233 | Question 2 | 3rd answer should be answer C. |
| 239 | Sample question 1, third answer. | Should be “C”. |
| 241 | First line under “Using Java” heading, opening words. | Should read: “ColdFusion runs on underlying Java technology”. |
| 248 | Final paragraph, first sentence. | Should read: “The <CFXML> tag creates a new XML Document Object”. |
| 250 | <CFSET> three lines from bottom of page. | Should read: <CFSET menu.menu.xmlchildren[1].xmlchildren[1].xmltext=”Homepage”> |
| 260 | Bulleted list, 4th bullet. | Should not be part of bulleted list. |
| 263 | Using DataGlue section, first line, text “bylooping”. | Should be: by looping |
| 290 | Final code snippet, FILE attribute. | Should have a fully qualified file path. |
| 290 | Paragraph above the Caution, sentence “For example”. | Should be: For example, MODE=”755″ gives rwxr-xr-x permissions (owner=read/write/execute, group=read/execute, other=read/execute). |
| 291 | First code example, 7th line, <CFSAVECONTENT>. | Should be: </CFSAVECONTENT>. |
| 291 | First code snippet, first line of code. | Missing = after VARIABLE |
| 292 | Second caution. | This no longer applies as of CFMX. |
| 292 | Final two lines, FILE prefix. | As of CFMX should be: CFFILE |
| 293 | 4th bullet, FILE prefix. | Should be: CFFILE |
| 293 | 2nd tip, FILE prefix. | Should be: CFFILE |
| 298 | Second code block, sixth line, text “aargs[1]”. | Should be: aArgs[1] |
| 345 | First note, opening words. | Should read: “Joins are logical entities,”. |
| 358 | Bulleted list, 4th bullet. | Should read: Unique constraint values may be reused. |
| 397 | Chapter 12, answer 2. | Correct answers are “C, D, and E”. (B is incorrect). |
| 399 | Chapter 16, answer 3. | Incorrect explanation text, should be: As no break statement is used, both lines will be executed. |
| 400 | Chapter 20, question 3. | C is also correct as ColdFusion Studio can display web browser pages. |
| 401 | Chapter 24, answer 1. | Correct answer is D. |
| 402 | Chapter 27, answer 1. | Should be “C and D” (text is correct, answer letters are incorrect). |
| 403 | Chapter 28, answer 2, 4th line: CFIMPORT | Should be: CFINVOKE |
| 404 | Chapter 33, answer 3. | Should be “A and D” (text is correct, answer letters are incorrect). |
| 404 | Chapter 31, answer to question 3. | A C and E are correct. |
| 405 | Chapter 34, answer 2. | Correct answer is C. |
| 405 | Chapter 36, answer 1. | Correct answers are B and C. |
| 407 | Chapter 44, question 1. | Correct answer is A (as multiple conditions are being checked, not multiple values). |