Head First ColdFuson Book

January 17, 2010 by Mike Henke    12 Comments
Posted under: ColdFusion · Git

I started a Head First ColdFusion book to submit to Head First. If anyone is interested in contributing, it is using markdown and on GitHub. The idea is based on the Pro Git book using the same technique.

ColdFusion · Git

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  • PaulH
    PaulH Jan 17, 2010 at 2:04 PM PERMALINK

    you missed:
    - flex/AIR
    - i18n

  • John C. Bland II
    John C. Bland II Jan 17, 2010 at 4:56 PM PERMALINK

    It would take the foremost expert in CF+i18n to point out the missing i18n chapter(s). :-) Good catch!

  • Mike
    Mike* Jan 17, 2010 at 5:03 PM PERMALINK

    Nice thing about it being on github is you can add those chapters. I also thought about chapters over different CFML engines.

  • Lola LB
    Lola LB Jan 17, 2010 at 7:41 PM PERMALINK

    Security.

  • Sami Hoda
    Sami Hoda Jan 17, 2010 at 9:10 PM PERMALINK

    What? No chapter on Mach II?!

  • Mike Henke
    Mike Henke* Jan 17, 2010 at 9:27 PM PERMALINK

    LOL, go ahead and add one. I haven't dove into any chapters yet. Just keep the spirit of the Head First series.

  • Todd Rafferty
    Todd Rafferty Jan 18, 2010 at 10:38 AM PERMALINK

    Not sure that I agree that Head First Coldfusion should include frameworks. None of their books that I'm aware of discusses frameworks. At best, they have a java pattern book.

  • Mike Henke
    Mike Henke* Jan 18, 2010 at 10:48 AM PERMALINK

    True the js, html/css, and php HF books don't discuss frameworks, but the Rails book is about the framework. I think my idea was most CF books don't discuss frameworks, unit testing, or using a debugging tool like FusionDebug. The individual chapters on frameworks could be combined into one.

  • ColdFusion Dark Lord
    ColdFusion Dark Lord Jan 18, 2010 at 11:03 PM PERMALINK

    The Dark Lord thinks people who don't use frameworks are wankers. Put them in the book.

  • Angela
    Angela Jan 20, 2010 at 2:14 PM PERMALINK

    The link to "Head First ColdFusion" results in:

    404 Not Found
    nginx/0.7.61

  • Mike Henke
    Mike Henke* Jan 20, 2010 at 2:35 PM PERMALINK

    It seems to be working for me http://github.com/mhenke/Head-First-ColdFusion

  • Eric Cobb
    Eric Cobb Jan 21, 2010 at 3:50 PM PERMALINK

    I think I have to agree with Todd on this one. The topic of frameworks in CFML can be pretty broad and detailed, and should probably be left out of the first book. (notice I said "first"...;) ) If you try to cram the frameworks into Head First ColdFusion you're going to run into one of two problems: 1) you won't be able to put enough detail into each framework to do it just; 2) you'll make the book so large that it will be too intimidating to print or read.

    That being said, I can definitely see it being split up into two book, "Head First CFML" and "Head First Frameworks for CFML".

    And, yes, I changed it from "ColdFusion" to "CFML". After all, is the book going to be about the actual Application Server (ColdFusion), or programming with the Markup Language (CFML)?

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