Recommend Books

Hmmm, wonder why this idea only applies to cf? All other platforms generate
so much interest that their book markets are huge. Of course, your logic is
flawed. It's lack of demand due to there not being enough people interested
in coldfusion.

re: CFWACK reputation

It has this reputation becuase there are no others to challenge it! Not
exactly hard to be the winner if your pretty much teh only one in the race.

If coldfusion grew more popular, more books would be published just as they
are for other platforms. If you can understand that, you should be able to
understand how yor logic is flawed. If there was "demand" for Bilsons book
and the "demand" went away, that should tell you that there is simply not
enough numbers to make enough profits.

In all fairness - the O'Reilly books do have a repuattion for being very
technical and not the easisest of reading. I always thought the cf crowd
were comprised mostly of newbies and designers (as opposed to tech types and
programmers) so I can see O'Reilly struggling to capture this market very
well.


"tclaremont" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> The lack of demand stems from the fact that more books on CF are just not
> needed. The CFWACK (ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit) has
> proven
> itself to be the undisputed authority of sorts on CF. That type of
> reputation,
> combined with the plethora of information readilly accessible on the
> internet,
> make publishing additional titles fruitless.
>
> With all that said, the Brilson book is readilly available both new and
> used
> through Amazon.com at the following link:
>
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Programming-ColdFusion-2nd-Rob-Brooks-Bilson/dp/0596003803
> /sr=8-2/qid=1171981731/ref=sr_1_2/103-7012973-2547008?ie=UTF8&s=books
>

The lack of demand stems from the fact that more books on CF are just not needed. The CFWACK (ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit) has proven itself to be the undisputed authority of sorts on CF. That type of reputation, combined with the plethora of information readilly accessible on the internet, make publishing additional titles fruitless.

With all that said, the Brilson book is readilly available both new and used through Amazon.com at the following link:

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-ColdFusion-2nd-Rob-Brooks-Bilson/dp/0596003803/sr=8-2/qid=1171981731/ref=sr_1_2/103-7012973-2547008?ie=UTF8&s=books

This book has been taken out of print due to lack of demand. Best sticking
with CFWACK

"Daverms" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> The one written by Rob Brook Bilson named "Programming Coldfusion MX" from
> O'Reilly Publishers is a simple and great guide to kick off..

Free CFMX7 e-books galore

Livedocs of ColdFusion would be of great help as well.
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/


Thanks

Sankalan
(www.mindfiresolutions.com)

The one written by Rob Brook Bilson named "Programming Coldfusion MX" from O'Reilly Publishers is a simple and great guide to kick off..

As for books, start with CF Web Application Construction Kit by Ben Forta & Co. and definitely the manuals that come with it/available online on adobe.com.

Learn about data modelling.
If you are new to html, htmlgoodies.com has good tutorials.
easycfm.com has good cold fusion tutorials.

The cfml reference manual is on the internet. Google is your freind here. If you submit <cfNameofTag> xxx, where xxx is your version number, the page on that tag will be one ot the first offerings. Also, googling "coldfusion NameOfFunction" will get you information on that function quickly.

Good luck.