Adobe ColdFusion 10 Web Application Construction Kit: ColdFusion 10 Enhancements and Improvements

by Ben Forta, Charlie Arehart, Raymond Camden

Adobe ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit is the best-selling ColdFusion series of all time—used by more ColdFusion developers to learn the product than any other books.

ColdFusion 10 was built to make your applications safer, more scalable, and more powerful, and to make programming more efficient. The enhancements and improvements detailed in this volume (which is an update to the three-volume Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit ) will empower you to fully leverage the true power of ColdFusion. It starts with coverage of new techniques in web application development, particularly the growth of web standards technologies like HTML5. The second section describes ColdFusion 10 language and programming enhancements, focusing on CFML, CFScript, XML, and Java. In the final section you’ll learn how to use modern development practices like deploying applications in the cloud, the latest administration and security techniques, and more.

360 pages, Paperback

First published February 14, 2013

About the author

Ben Forta is an author and Senior Technical Evangelist for Adobe Systems, particularly ColdFusion and Flex, and the owner of EmTek Systems. He previously worked in a similar capacity for Macromedia and Allaire Corporation, the two previous owners of ColdFusion.

In addition to writing numerous technical books on ColdFusion, SQL, and Regular Expressions, Forta co-authored Adobe's official ColdFusion training materials and certification tests and lectures on application development around the world. Many of his books have been translated into over a dozen languages worldwide.

Before working for Allaire, he founded the website Car.com, which was later purchased by Auto-By-Tel. Born in London, England, Forta lives in Oak Park, Michigan with his wife and their children.

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