ColdFusion (fast & easy web development)

Learn and reference basic ColdFusion tricks.

ColdFusion Fast&Easy Web Development
TC Bradley
432 pages
ISBN: 0761530169

This book published by PrimaTech has decent coverage of some of the general and more popular features of ColdFusion such as declaring variables, Querying a database, File Uploading, Modifying Dynamic Date, Email triggers and many other useful features.

In general, this book serves as a good reference to these ColdFusion functions, presented in a quick and easy manner, although this book does not serve as a good introduction to ColdFusion. The concepts taught are sort of scattered throughout the book and there appears to be no consistency in the order of topics covered throughout the Chapters.

There is no real coverage of ColdFusion syntax, which is something essential to a beginner of any language. Although, general syntax that is required to complete tutorials throughout the book is given, it is not presented in a fashion that a beginner can truly grasp and follow. But those with a background in some web programming language will be able to pick up the concept that was intended to be taught. I should still note that a beginner will still be able to complete the tutorials throughout the book. But the order of the topics and the manner in which they are presented and discussed does not appear to be the best methodology for the absolute ColdFusion beginner.

Although I still recommend this book to any web programmer who is interested in ColdFusion, if you are looking for a book to introduce you to ColdFusion, its syntax, etc., this may not be the book to buy.  It may be more appropriate if you are looking for a quick reference to some of the most used ColdFusion features mentioned earlier.