Resources for ColdFusion Development

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Resources for ColdFusion Development
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When a potential employer/client asks you if
you've ever worked with XYZ software running on
platform ABC, say "yes" quickly and with great
assurance. Then run home, fire up the Net, and
figure out what the hell they were talking
about. Charles Mohnike, WebMonkey
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Resources for ColdFusion Development
Required before you start to develop ColdFusion
applications
Write pages in HTML Build databases and
queries Debug simple programs and macros
You can use your entire web development Bag O
Tricks
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Resources for ColdFusion Development
Commandment the First Dont test new
applications on the department server. What can
happen?!? Server hangs and crashes e.g., queries
on buggy databases. Disruption of other services
(e-mail, etc.) Hate mail
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Resources for ColdFusion Development
What to do?!? Set up a development environment on
your machine. Code, test and debug applications
on your personal development environment. Transfer
files to production server. Then test the
application on the production server.
No access to your server? You can develop
applications on your personal development
environment and ship the batch to the server
administrator to upload.
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Resources for ColdFusion Development
Setting up a development Environment
Editors Code Editor Visual Editor Image,
CSS Servers IIS CF Express Data
Sources ODBC Native database drivers
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Resources for ColdFusion Development
Editors
Text Editor ColdFusion Studio has SQL
Query builder Visual Editor Dreamweaver
UltraDev Integrated with ColdFusion,
data sources
Visual Editors optional, very useful for page
design.
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Resources for ColdFusion Development
Editors
Image Editor e.g., Adobe PhotoShop Style
Editor e.g., TopStyle Special Text Editors
e.g., TexPad http//www.textpad.com/
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Servers
Use single-user servers used on department/unit
web site. IIS Win2000 Built in Win98
Install Disk ColdFusion Express download
free http//www.allaire.com/
Install and test the web server before installing
CFExpress.
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Resources for ColdFusion Development
Edit pages
My Computer
Design/Populate DB
Local Test
Production Server
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Resources for ColdFusion Development
Let us rejoice
for Cold Fusion supports code reuse
Custom Tags Yeeow!
ltCFINCLUDE gt ltCF_MYCOOLNEWTAG gt ltCF_MODULEgt

• Speed up development
• Reduce maintenance and debugging

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Let us rejoice
for Cold Fusion Studio has a full source
debugger And page validator tool And SQL builder
Set server debugging options Enable from
ColdFusion Administrator Restrict output to your
machine (127.0.0.1)
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Resources for ColdFusion Development
Allaire Developer Site http//www.allaire.com/dev
eloper/index.cfm Allaire Self-paced
Training Skillbuilding with ColdFusion Allaire
Alive Macromedia Resource Center http//macromed
ia.com/resources/ Macromedia University http//ma
cromedia.elementk.com/campus/my_courses.asp CFUGS
C ColdFusion Users Group State
College http//www.cfug-sc.org/ CFUG ListServe
a happenin place
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WebMonkey Coldfusion Tutorial http//ho
twired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/coldfusion/
tutorials/tutorial2.html SQL http//hotwire
d.lycos.com/webmonkey/backend/databases/tutorials/
tutorial3.html ColdFusion Web Application
Construction Kit -Ben Forta, Published by
Que Ben Fortas web site CFUGSC ColdFusion
Users Group State College http//www.cfug-sc.org/

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Resources for ColdFusion Development
Penn State Internet Professional Certificate
Program http//webmaster.outreach.psu.edu/program
.html 116 hours/2500 Instructor-led
Learning Online at Penn State http//cac.psu.edu/
training/ Self paced
Allaire Training Partners http//allaire.com/part
ners/Training.cfm Instructor-led
Independent Education/Training Companies e.g.
Learning Tree International ColdFusion Ultradev
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