ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit Volume 2: Application Development

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ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit Volume 2: Application Development

ISBN: 0321515463

Pages: 518

Publisher: Adobe Press – November 28, 2007

Co-authors: Charlie Arehart, John C. Bland, Ken Fricklas, Leon Chalnick, Mike Nimer, Paul Hastings, Raymond Camden, Robi Sen, Sarge Sargent

This title is out of date, and has been replaced by Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 2: Application Development.

This is the revised award-winning sequel to my ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit.

Co-authored by some of the most respected ColdFusion programmers, all of whom have gained their real-world ColdFusion experience the hard way, this book is the only place you’ll find extensive coverage of all aspects of ColdFusion application development, including new ColdFusion 8 features.

Here’s a partial list of what you’ll find in this new book: creating your own tags and functions, writing ColdFusion Components, improving application performance, leverage Ajax and Adobe Flex, using XML and related technologies, how to use the new interactive debugger, internationalization and localization, and much much more!

Both as a tutorial and as a reference, this is the latest edition of what has become the standard ColdFusion book (along with its two sister volumes). And this new updated enhanced, and extended edition improves upon what has made this the #1 selling ColdFusion series ever.

Enjoy, and good luck with ColdFusion 8!

(Note: The size of this book has grown with each edition, and this is now the second volume of a three volume series. While most of the content is in print form in the book, some chapters are being made available electronically on this web page).

Chapter listing

  • Introduction
  • 24: Building User-Defined Functions
  • 25: Creating Custom Tags
  • 26: Building Reusable Components
  • 27: Creating Advanced ColdFusion Components
  • 28: ColdFusion Server Configuration
  • 29: Improving the User Experience
  • 30: Managing Threads
  • 31: Improving Performance
  • 32: Working With PDF Files
  • 33: ColdFusion Image Processing
  • 34: Advanced ColdFusion Powered Ajax
  • 35: Understanding Macromedia Flex Integration
  • 36: Integrating with Macromedia Flex
  • 37: Creating Presentations
  • 38: Generating Non-HTML Content
  • 39: Full-Text Searching

  • 40: Event Scheduling
  • 41: More On SQL and Queries
  • 42: Working with Stored Procedures
  • 43: Using Regular Expressions
  • 44: ColdFusion Scripting
  • 45: Working with XML
  • 46: Manipulating XML with XSLT and XPath
  • 47: Using WDDX
  • 48: Using JavaScript and ColdFusion Together
  • 49: Using XForms
  • 50: Internationalization and Localization
  • 51: Error Handling
  • 52: Using The Debugger
  • 53: Managing Your Code
  • 54: Development Methodologies
  • Appendix C: ICU4J Supported Locales
  • Appendix D: Locale Differences Between ColdFusion & ICU4J

Supporting Resources

Electronic Chapters

If you are looking for Chapters 41-54 and Appendixes C and D, download this PDF file.

Supporting files

  • For the sample database used in ther lessons in this book, see the Volume 1 page.
  • CFWACK8-2.zip contains all of the source code and examples used in this book, organized by chapter.

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