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Summary: Mastering the Basics....
Comment: Mastering ColdFusion 4 is a little beyond the scope of this book. However, for those new to ColdFusion, it is an excellent primer and will quickly get you up to speed and writing ColdFusion templates that do everything from form processing to mailing to user session tracking. It lacks the depth of some other ColdFusion texts, but has all of the key ingredients in a clear and easy to read format that makes it easy to assimilate.
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Summary: Excellent book both for learning and reference
Comment: I found this book to be an excellent introduction to Cold Fusion as well as a decent reference book. I've used the Ben Forta books and while they are excellent for advanced programmers this book starts at the beginning and clearly and concisely leads you into more advanced topics.
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Summary: Outstanding
Comment: I hadn't bothered to check out Mastering CF until just recently. I had doubts about whether it'd be worth it to bother. Well, what a mistake! I finally bought this book and have been reading it over the past week. I've been through Forta's books and all of Allaire's classes (Fastrack to CF, Advanced CF, and CF Performance Tuning), but was still confused in some areas. Mastering CF has done an amazing job of making sense of just about every area that I didn't fully understand. I very highly recommend it!
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Summary: Well Organized
Comment: I'm an Active Server Page programmer that was curious about all the hype surrounding Cold Fusion. I came across this book and decided to give it a read. I've read many, many, many computer books. Probably over a hundred, and this one is organized about as well as I've seen. What I admire most about the layout is how the author breaks down topics into small sections or chapters. Too often, in computer books, several challenging concepts get mixed together and make for very long and confusing chapters with overblown examples. This book book does a good job at avoiding this. I give it 4 stars instead of 5 due to buggy example code.
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Summary: Decent book
Comment: This is a pretty good book. I am a mid level CF developer and thought this book was good for learning basics and mid level information. I give it four stars because it covers the basics and also delves into intermediate level info middle and end of book (scheduling, cfmail, custom tags). I would like to see them cover more high end application info in their next book. Custom tagging is only the beginning of what cold fusion can apparently do! A good book for beginners and learners (less than one year experience coldfusion)
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