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Introduction


ColdFusion, originally developed by the visionary Allaire brothers and their small team is now the flagship server product from Macromedia. ColdFusion's evangelist Ben Forta has led the way with thorough and comprehensive books about ColdFusion, but by now there are countless other capable authors producing books about it although Forta stays productive as ever. Here you'll find a selection of books that cover the latest version 5. A few (too few) of them also pay attention to ColdFusion Studio, HomeSite's offspring.

 
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ColdFusion 5: A Beginner's Guide
(Amazon.co.uk)

by Jeffry Houser
Paperback - 550 pages 1st edition (February 19, 2002)
Osborne McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0072191090

Background

Hot off the press! Finally here is a beginner-level book that covers CF version 5, and it's a good solid guide that teaches you all the basics, including basic programming concepts such as conditionals and loops, and how to implement them in ColdFusion. If you're new to not only ColdFusion but to programming as well, this book will teach you all you need to know to get up to speed.
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ColdFusion Fast & Easy Web Development
(Amazon.co.uk)

by T. C. Bradley
Paperback - 432 pages Bk&Cd-Rom edition (July 2000)
Premier Press, Inc.
ISBN: 0761530169

This an exception on this page, since this book does not cover ColdFusion 5 but only version 4.5.1. But it's the only other real beginner-level book and on that merit it deserves a mention anyway. If you're exploring the capabilities of ColdFusion, this is also a handy and inexpensive way to start: ColdFusion Express comes on the CD.  to menu

 
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ColdFusion 5 Web Application Construction Kit
(Amazon.co.uk)

by Ben Forta, Nate Weiss, Leon Chalnick, David Crawford, John Cummings, David Golden
Paperback - 1512 pages 4th Bk&Cd-Rom edition (July 24, 2001)
Que
ISBN: 0789725843

Background

Ben Forta's 'WACK' books are already classics in the ColdFusion community. This is the most up-to-date version (the 4th edition already!) and an absolute must if you're working with ColdFusion 5. It covers ColdFusion Studio as well. Careful, now, this book has grown by 50% since the previous edition, it's heavy!.
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Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion 5 Application Development
(Amazon.co.uk)

by Ben Forta, Dain Anderson, Benjamin Elmore, Shawn Evans, Paul Hastings, Nate Weiss, Jeff Taylor, Emily B. Kim, David Krasnove, Robert Panico
Paperback - 1152 pages 2nd Bk&Cd-Rom edition (September 17, 2001)
Que
ISBN: 0789725851

Background

Here's a partial list of what you'll find in this new book: writing scalable applications, implementing fault-tolerance and load-balancing technologies, monitoring and fine-tuning system performance, creating secure applications, deploying server sandbox security, integration with NOS security, writing language extensions in CFML, C/C++, COM, DCOM, and CORBA integration, XML use, and user defined functions, structured error handling, implementing distributed processing and intelligent agents, scripting and customizing the ColdFusion Studio development environment, sophisticated regular-expressions processing, internationalization and localization, and much much more!  to menu

 
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Professional ColdFusion 5.0
(Amazon.co.uk)

by Simon Horwith, Paulo Rios, Sander Duivestein, Ryan O'Keefe, Nicole Ambrose-Haynes, Daniel Newsome, Robert Segal, Andrew Wintheiser, Karen Little, Herb Guenther, Don Smith, Karli Watson, Chris Ullman, Julian Skinner, Carmen Johnson, Michael Buckbee
Perfect Paperback - 1000 pages (June 2001)
Wrox Press Inc
ISBN: 1861004540

Background

Warning: twelve authors means inevitable overlap and inconsistency in style between chapters. That said, this book seems to contain much valuable material, all written by experienced ColdFusion programmers. The list of subjects is quite long, and it includes coverage of ColdFusion Studio (including debugging, an important advantage ColdFusion Studio has over HomeSite as a development environment for ColdFusion).  to menu

 
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Programming ColdFusion
(Amazon.co.uk)

by Rob Brooks-Bilson
Paperback - 980 pages (August 6, 2001)
O'Reilly & Associates
ISBN: 1565926986

Background

No installation. No Administration. No project management. No ColdFusion Studio. This book is about programming ColdFusion - and nothing but programming. A typical O'Reilly offering.  to menu

 
 

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