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Business Intelligence With Cold Fusion (E-Business)
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by John W. Gosney and Christine Mears
Sales Rank: 2758110
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List Price: $59.99
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Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Premier Press September 14, 2000
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0761528431
ISBN-13: 978-0761528432
Product Dimensions:
9.3 x 7.6 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
Book Description
"Business intelligence" is one of the hottest catch phrases circulating throughout the industry today and refers to a methodology for turning data into information. ColdFusion is a complete Web application server for developing and delivering scalable e-business applications. Business Intelligence with ColdFusion combines the two and provides a solid understanding of ColdFusion and project management principles while taking you through complete examples of how to successfully implement business intelligence. This book is geared toward the experienced application developer who might be new to ColdFusion. It includes a CD with a demo of a ColdFusion server, Allaire's Homesite and Studio, and a HTML version of the book.
Book Info
(Prima Tech) Provides answers to the problem of transforming data into information, quickly. Utilizes hands-on and theoretical approaches to teach the user how to fully maximize ColdFusion. The CD-ROM contains 30-day trials of ColdFusion Server, ColdFusion Studio, and HomeSite.
Customer Reviews & Comments
As an experienced developer who's somewhat new to Cold Fusion, I had hoped that this book would provide some new and useful ideas and source code. Boy was I wrong. According to the book review, "This book is geared toward the experienced application developer who might be new to ColdFusion." Yet, in the introduction, the book says "This book assumes no prior knowledge of Coldfusion development". That's for sure! The first four chapters are a beginner's introduction to project management. Skip if you have ever been on a software project team or taken a class in project management. Chapters five through nine are a rehash of the Cold Fusion manual. Skip if you have the manual or can download it from Allaire's web site. Chapters 10 through 13, the heart of the book, cover developing a project plan and finally show us some code. The example code is deja vu all over again. Skip if you have any other book on Cold Fusion. The second half of the book is a complete departure from Cold Fusion entirely (except for an Appendix on Cold Fusion Administrator - again, skip if you have the manual). Amazingly, seven entire chapters are devoted to installing and testing SQL Server. What in blazes does this have to do with Cold Fusion? We're talking nearly 200 off-topic pages here ... Skip the second half of this book if you have any book on SQL Server or (like me) are using Oracle and Apache web server. This book might be okay for a first course in web database development. For serious developers who are truly interested in "Business Intelligence", I consider it a waste of money. What experienced developers need is a book with a title like "Algorithms in Cold Fusion". How about it, O'Reilly?
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