Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 2: Application Development at Dominant Systems Book Store

ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 2: Application Development begins by introducing important code organization and management techniques, and then progresses to topics that include integrating with all sorts of other technologies (including PDF, Adobe Flex, Ajax, advanced SQL and databases), debugging, and optimizing performance. From design and planning, to application deployment and troubleshooting, this instructional reference is all you need to successfully work, create, and progress with ColdFusion 8, the the most important ColdFusion since the product was created back in 1995

Customer Reviews & Comments
I love Ray Camden's work, and this book is no exception. He has a straightforward writing style with lots of examples to back it up. CF8 has a lot of new features, and if you work with CF8, this is the reference set to start with. If you have prior works, you'll continue to love it, though you'll rapidly get sick of the old 'Orange Whip Studios' sample. Now the bad part. For some reason the publisher split this into 3 separate books. If I pile them all up they are about the same size as the last single CF book I bought by Ray, except that you now pay over twice as much. Myself, I'd rather have the single big book. Second grief; about 1/3 of the content is on CD... except it isn't on CD's... You have to download the PDFs from Ray's site. Personally, I hate electronic copy for reference books, I like to flip between pages and dog ear topics of interest. The publisher did the same thing in the prior versions of this book, though at least they had the dignity to include the CD with the book. Editors PLEASE: offer a set of completely printed volumes and a set of electronic volumes. Let the users choose. If Ray went with a different publisher that did this I'd buy it in a heartbeat. So, content aside - which is excellent - this entire line reeks of a bunch of new VPs brainstorming how to improve quarterly margins. You can almost visualize the Dilbert like conversation... VP1: 'OK, first we'll only publish 2/3s of the content, we'll put the last chapters on CD, that'll save us a bunch!. VP2: 'heh, why attach the CD, we could save $0.03 on each sale if we DIDN'T attach it! Let 'em download it! VP3: 'In fact, we'll make 'ol Ray put it on his site so we don't even have to pay for hosting space - that way we can shaft the customers AND the author (laugh around the table). They'll be paying us for something we don't even provide! VP1: 'GREAT!, and, wait - yeah - we could cut it into 2 books and charge twice as much!' VP2: 'Come on man, be bold - THREE volumes and charge THREE times as much!' VP3: 'Oh man, no wonder they fired thoses bozo VPs before us - we'll double earnings in one quarter alone! I can't wait for the bonuses!' Anyway, great job to Ray. Publishers - WAKE UP!

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