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Summary: Great book for beginners to intermediate programmers
Review: "Inside ColdFusion MX" is an excellent starting point for anybody who wants to learn ColdFusion from scratch. The book uses simple language and illustrates the more complicated issues of programming with real life examples, which makes it very easy to read and understand.
Experienced programmers who have worked with previous versions of ColdFusion will find the book to be a great introduction to features of the new MX version such as XML and Flash MX integration, CFC's and more.
A well-organized index allows readers to quickly find any topic of interest. Chapters in the book are logically arranged and well cross-referenced. Task oriented readers will appreciate not having to plow through the book in contiguous order to be able to grasp required information.
Some of the chapters I would like to highlight as particularly useful are:
User Defined Functions; CF Components; Application Performance; Advanced Database Interaction; and very practical Tips and Tricks. Additionally, the appendices provides an invaluable resource for the novice and not-so-novice reader alike. Inside ColdFusion MX is a great book and I highly recommend it!
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Summary: Please dont waste your time with this book
Review: ... do not waste time with this book. It markets itself as a book that will be more usefull for the falks wanting to get an insight into CF MX. It is a general books on ColdFusion and it "covers" all its subjects in a very undetailed way. I am disapointed with this book. I would have prefered to have bought the new
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Summary: Good for the Cold Fusion Neophyte
Review: Being an experience Cold Fusion developer I was eager to find a new book on the MX release. Although the book presents the basic information and Cold Fusion enhancements in a clear manner and approach, I found that it did not speak to the advanced developer, leaving me not very inspired.
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Summary: Good for all skill levels
Review: For beginners to advanced users alike, this book gives a good overview of all the new features of ColdFusion MX like CFCs, Flash remoting, and new tags like CFLOGIN and CFCHART. It also includes tips on migrating apps to MX. The book also covers all the basics like application planning, error handling, and syntax which new users will get the most use out of. I found the article on regular expressions to be very handy. For more advanced users, the book offers detailed information on leveraging ColdFusion MX to interact with fairly new technologies like web services and XML/XSL/XPath.All in all, a worthwhile investment.
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Summary: Solid Book
Review: I am new to ColdFusion although I have a background in Computer Science. I just started a project where I have to integrate ColdFusion MX , Flash MX, and XML. I found that this book provided a good overview of ColdFusion and was well written. My only complaint is that most of the chapters seemed not delve very deeply into more advanced concepts although there is an excellent and pretty deep coverage of how to work with XML and ColdFusion which was exactly what I needed.
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Summary: I really like this book
Review: I really do like this book. I've got it on my desk at work, now that we've officially moved to Cold Fusion MX. I'm an intermediate developer and this book seems to be written for CF developers at my level, where most books are very basic or very high level. I got a lot from the chapters on CFCs and from the sections about application development and methodologies. The book provides a nice lead into XML and web services too. I think the part that was most useful right off the bat were the sections on security and e-commerce. I pulled some code right out of the example code and immediately put it to work in one of my projects. You won't be dissappointed! I give it two thumbs up.
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Summary: Great for the taking that next step
Review: I was a bit sceptical about this book. I thought anyone would be hard pressed to compete with Ben Forta's classic book, but this book is really aimed at a different target. If you are fairly new to ColdFusion and are looking at taking that next step into intermediate/advanced use of ColdFusion, then this is the right book for you. It introduces advanced concepts like using XML, new ColdFusion Components, Flash remoting, with clear easy to follow examples. Give it a look.
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Summary: One in a Million
Review: Over the last few years, I've worked with ColdFusion sporadically and without great success. Everyone said how easy it was to learn ColdFusion, but I just wasn't getting it. I got a copy of this book as soon as it came out and let me tell you, the first few chapters cleared up all of the confusion for me regarding CF. This book explained ColdFusion and application development in a way that just makes sense. The authors don't numb you with ultra-techno lingo but explain each and every concept in a way that is clear and concise and they give relevant examples to back it all up. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn ColdFusion development, extend their existing knowledge of ColdFusion or even learn to administrate their CF servers.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: The good: This book is first to market with a lot of new information. If you are a speed-reading ColdFusion expert, you can glean some good information. The bad: The book is terribly edited. This is inexcusable when you consider the credentials of the editors. This really hits neophytes worse than experienced users, who can ostensibly tell when an update query is missing the UPDATE statement. There are so many typos that it is hard to believe that the book was spell-checked, let alone proofread. For me, the lowlight was the wacky, wrong-headed explanation of "n-tier" archatecture, but the worst part is that the explanations lack depth, so that someone learning MX from this book would not really be any further ahead when they finished than if they had read a more comprehesible albeit less ambitious book, like something from Visual Quickstart (their MX book isn't out yet, but, presumably, it will aspire to the series standard). It is really disheartening and hardly unique to this book that lax standards and quick release seem to be the new norm. I should have waited for the new Programming ColdFusion MX book.
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Summary: OK, But buggy code and sloppy editing...
Review: There is a lot of errors in this book and plenty of editing mistakes, such as figures/pictures not corresponding to the section.
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