The ColdFusion 4.0 Web Application Construction Kit

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Customer Reviews:

A Good Book, but... [Posted on 2002-01-14]
First of all, this book is about Cold Fusion 4.0 and the current version of Cold Fusion is 5. So, an update would be nice since there are significant differences between 4.0 and 4.5.1 and between 4.5.1 and 5.

This is a great book for beginners needing to find basic information and nothing too in depth. I found some topics to be simply glossed-over and some left out completely. For example, Allaire/Macromedia apparently recommend using CFLOCK to lock application and server variables, but this really is never mentioned in either this book (recommended by Macromedia) or the Cold Fusion documentation. Why? Discussion of Client Variables was skimpy, and the book is filled with errors.

I would like to see the tag guide in the back organized alphabetically instead of by type of tag, so that I don't have to go to the index to find a tag's page number first.

In general, I have used this book as a handy reference to find basic information and to supplement the documentation that comes with Cold Fusion, but I have gone to Allaire's forum website for more in depth advice and support.

Everything I ever needed to know about Cold Fusion ... [Posted on 2002-08-29]
... I learned from Ben Forta. OK - If your going to learn or do any sort of reading into Cold Fusion, don't waste your time, get a Ben Forta book okay? I have read all the books on CF, and his are the most thorough, practical, and easiest to understand. The "proof is in the pudding" as they say, in that I still use this book nearly weekly as a reference tool, even though I have the updated versions. I simply know where everything is, because I have used it so much. Thanks Ben - we love ya' . . .

One of the most useless books I've had [Posted on 2002-10-09]
I can't believe this book has got such good ratings. It's horrible. It has some useful examples I'll admit, but the appendix is useless. Trying to find detailed information about how a tag works? Don't bother looking in this book.

Garbage! [Posted on 2003-01-30]
If you interested in learning Cold Fusion, don't waste your time or money on this book. Difficult to understand and poorly written. What a dissapointment!...

Good stuff! [Posted on 2005-09-24]
Right now I am in the middle of my online training, but from what I have seen, this is going to help me a lot after the class is done.

Not only that, but it was quick to arrive!

Thanks!
Sonya

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