1. Adobe Coldfusion Anthology by
Judith Dinowitz
A Compelling Compendium Of Top Contributions From Over 30 Authors
Adobe ColdFusion remains one of today’s significant Web Services tools
and frameworks, and stands to become even more important as a possible
primary tool for cloud development as well. As important as ColdFusion is
and continues to become, we thought it would be a good idea to tap the
leading authority on ColdFusion, the Fusion Authority. We asked this
community to compile the most important issues in their developer and
user experiences into one single volume—an anthology of the most current
technical articles published in the Fusion Authority Quarterly Updates.
In it, you’ll get the following:
The best and brightest ColdFusion expertise available today, from inside
and outside of AdobeThe most up-to-date content with the latest releases
of ColdFusion Case studies and instances where ColdFusion is used in
cloud-based developmentRather than take a soup-to-nuts approach that
covers every single topic, including those that most people have learned
already, this book takes specific items of interest and explains them so that
you can hit the ground running, rather than having to wait until you’ve read
the entire book.
What you’ll learn Why ColdFusion is important for your Web Services and
cloud application developmentHow the latest versions of ColdFusion can
build cloud applicationsHow to integrate the latest ColdFusion has to offer
with Flex and other Adobe tools in your workflowHow to use ColdFusion in
pragmatic ways through examples, illustrations, and case studiesHow to
use ColdFusion best practices, testing techniques, and moreWho is this
book for? This book is tailored for ColdFusion developers s pecifically, but
many articles may be of use to general programmers as well.

2. The books title says it all: what youll find in this anthology is a well-
organized and compelling compendium of top contributions from over 30
authors on some of the latest and greatest developments as well as classic
fundamentals in ColdFusion. The chapters appeared first as articles in the
FusionAuthority Quarterly Update (FAQU), a high-quality journal that some
readers here will know has served the CF community both in print (until
recently) and always online by subscription.
** Not just a rehash, and updated for CF9:
The Anthology (as I suspect it may come to be known) offers a great
cross-section of FAQU articles, edited and re-purposed for book format
and presented in well-organized sections (more on the valuable editing
later). Of course the book form will be great for reaching those who maybe
never knew of the magazine.
But even though Id read most of the articles in their original journal issues,
its still a compelling reprisal of so many great ones. More important, many
have been updated to reflect changes in CF since their original writing.
Indeed, from the first chapter on youll find that many of the articles refer to
recent development in ColdFusion 9, and of cour se many refer to CF 8
(which some are still only now moving to). Still, many topics in CF are
foundational, such that whats true a couple (or even a few) years ago is
just as valuable now.
** A broad range of intermediate/advanced topics:
A quick scan by prospective readers of the Amazon preview of the
complete Table of Contents will show that this is far from a beginner book.
While it does start with fundamentals, its *not* how to do
CFOUTPUT/CFQUERY, nor how to define datasources, etc. Far from it!
Such bare essentials of CF are *assumed*.
Instead the first several chapters focus on effective use of CFC features
(and a later section covers OOP). This is not the idiots guide to CF!
Still, CF is a rich language and platform, and even those with years of
experience can get bogged down leveraging only a subset of its
functionality. This book can help change that. The remaining chapters
range from easy-to-understand things like the compelling features to
create PDFs, images, etc to subsequent sections on bro ader/deeper topics
related to tuning, integration, frameworks, user interface, and all-important
development tools.
Any CF developer whos gotten past the bare essentials would do very well
to soak up the vast array of tips and traps shared by so many deve lopers
here.

3. ** Presented from many perspectives, but with a unifying hand:
Indeed, its great to have such a variety of knowledge and experience
presented here, since In the CF world there are many ways to achieve a
goal and certainly different opinions as well.
That said, many such anthologies often suffer precisely *because* of
having so many authors. That should be less of an issue here. I c an attest
to this as one of the contributors (as well as a regular back-page columnist
in the FAQU journal.)
All the writing here (and in the journal) has been edited under the firm but
gentle guiding hand of editor Judith Dinowitz as well as her husband
Michael and their team of technical editors (and those of the publisher).
This book seems a fitting capstone to all theyve done under the guise of
FusionAuthority, helping advance the skills of so many CFers. You can
learn more about all the contributors to and editors of the book in bios
offered after the table of contents, again viewable in the preview here.
(And in the interest of disclosure, the contributors have no financial share
in sales of this book, so I offer my review here sincerely and to help
readers.)
I recommend the Anthology to any CFer interested in advancing their skills
in many ways.
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