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Anonymous
January 28, 2011
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Where to start? CF version? Book etc..

  • January 28, 2011
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Hey guys,

I have done some work with Coldfusion, Oracle and IIS in past. At the time it was version 4.5 and now it's all changed. I got a large e-commerce project to work on. I want to use coldfusion for this and wanted to ask few questions.

1. Which version of coldfusion, Oracle and web server to start with?

2. Which book is the best at the moment? (I got coldfusion complete reference but it's 4.5!!)

I will be good with installation and setting up database just need to know where to start.

Thanks guys,

Amit.

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Anonymous
January 30, 2011

Thanks guys for your replies. I have installed CF9 with access.

I went in town to buy CF book but had no luck. I mean in Oxford we have huge size waterstone they had not a single CF book. I looked in to Lynda.com and found there videos very good. So will be buying one of those. Though, I am one of those old fashion people who like to read from paper books.

For now, I will be using my CF 4.5 book and if I get stuck some place, I will come to this place.

Thanks for all your help buys. Adobe resources page is been bookmarked and this forum.

Amit.

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Dan_Bracuk
Inspiring
January 31, 2011

For ColdFusion books, visit www.forta.com.

Owainnorth
Owainnorth
Inspiring
January 28, 2011

There's no advantage with any of those products to start with anything but the latest versions, unless you want the free version of Oracle which still only comes in 10g.

As for books personally I wouldn't bother. Figure out what you want to do and there's nothing you won't find on Google, just take it step at a time

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Anonymous
January 28, 2011

thanks,

The project I am been asked to start is a e-commerce website where they want to sell Invitation cards. So a different level of login, manual discount codes, reference discount and the whole payment system are the main contact of the site. When we were using 4.5 version this was dead easy and I am sure it is still the case (one of the reason I am choosing CF is because how easy it is to use).

Now when I want to buy CF I am confused, because there are developer, enterprise etc different versions. How are they different and which one is best for the above project? I think my boss have "Adobe ColdFusion Enterprise Edition 9" and he can give me that for free so will that do the job?

Sorry If I sound right idiot but for past 7-8 years I have stopped programming and doing just designing so I have lost touch with this field. I really appreciate your help.

Thanks,

A

Owainnorth
Owainnorth
Inspiring
January 28, 2011

There's a comparison on the Adobe site that lists the features available in both versions, I'd recommend taking a look at that. Enterprise Edition however will definitely do the job as it's the fully-featured version.

ColdFusion has been re-written in Java and built upon an awful lot since version 4, but there's nothing you could do then that you can't do now.

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