Customer Rating: 
Summary: Overall an A+
Comment: This book covers the planning, development and implementation of ColdFusion MX web applications from end-to-end. While I am expert in ColdFusion, my colleages are not; regardless, we are able to share this book and learn from it and use it as a reference to our conversion to the MX version of ColdFusion.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I really like this book
Comment: I really do like this book. I've got it on my desk at work, now that we've officially moved to Cold Fusion MX. I'm an intermediate developer and this book seems to be written for CF developers at my level, where most books are very basic or very high level. I got a lot from the chapters on CFCs and from the sections about application development and methodologies. The book provides a nice lead into XML and web services too. I think the part that was most useful right off the bat were the sections on security and e-commerce. I pulled some code right out of the example code and immediately put it to work in one of my projects. You won't be dissappointed! I give it two thumbs up.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: The good: This book is first to market with a lot of new information. If you are a speed-reading ColdFusion expert, you can glean some good information.The bad: The book is terribly edited. This is inexcusable when you consider the credentials of the editors. This really hits neophytes worse than experienced users, who can ostensibly tell when an update query is missing the UPDATE statement. There are so many typos that it is hard to believe that the book was spell-checked, let alone proofread. For me, the lowlight was the wacky, wrong-headed explanation of "n-tier" archatecture, but the worst part is that the explanations lack depth, so that someone learning MX from this book would not really be any further ahead when they finished than if they had read a more comprehesible albeit less ambitious book, like something from Visual Quickstart (their MX book isn't out yet, but, presumably, it will aspire to the series standard). It is really disheartening and hardly unique to this book that lax standards and quick release seem to be the new norm. I should have waited for the new Programming ColdFusion MX book.
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Summary: Great for the taking that next step
Comment: I was a bit sceptical about this book. I thought anyone would be hard pressed to compete with Ben Forta's classic book, but this book is really aimed at a different target. If you are fairly new to ColdFusion and are looking at taking that next step into intermediate/advanced use of ColdFusion, then this is the right book for you.It introduces advanced concepts like using XML, new ColdFusion Components, Flash remoting, with clear easy to follow examples. Give it a look.
Customer Rating:
Summary: good book - finally some new info you can't find in others
Comment: This is the first book I've seen that tries to go beyond ColdFusion syntax and is definitely geared toward the intermediate developer.
It does not focus on the basics like all the others but rather gives real-world examples and approaches. I liked this book a lot, though I can find no use for the tag reference (adds extra 200 pages).
The XML and Web-Services chapter was easy to understand and so was the application architecture chapter.
I did not like the caching chapter which I thought was missing some info about software like xcache.
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