This book is a fast-paced tutorial to developing ColdFusion applications, with an emphasis on real-world skills. Packed with examples and careful explanations, the book leads you through all the topics relevant to today's ColdFusion developer. This book is for web developers working with ColdFusion 9. If your goal is to get a good grounding in the basics of the language as quickly as possible and put a site together quickly, this book is ideal for you. This book will also help you if you want to learn more about professional programming of ColdFusion. No prior knowledge of ColdFusion is expected, but basic knowledge of general web and software development skills is assumed.What you will learn from this book

• Foundational concepts of developing in CFML (ColdFusion)
• How to make your ColdFusion Components (CFCs) come alive with methods, using object inheritance, connecting to a database through the internal methods of our object CFCs or via ORM
• Manage multiple records through common forms for listing, editing and adding data
• Master debugging and unit testing techniques
• How to pass information into a custom tag and learn the different methods of storing and accessing tags and tag libraries
• Enhance the user interface with built-in ColdFusion AJAX features (layout, forms, script, maps, and more)
• Manage files, e-mails, and images through CFML
• Power mixing CFCs and custom tags using COOP library ans examples to simplify view coding and understand event-based objects