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Resources for ColdFusion Development

Resources for ColdFusion Development. Webmaster Rule Number One:.

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Resources for ColdFusion Development

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  1. Resources for ColdFusion Development Webmaster Rule Number One: 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

  2. 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

  3. Resources for ColdFusion Development • Commandment the First: • Don’t 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

  4. 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. • Thentest 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.

  5. 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

  6. 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.

  7. 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/

  8. Resources for ColdFusion Development 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.

  9. Resources for ColdFusion Development Edit pages My Computer Design/Populate DB Local Test Production Server

  10. Resources for ColdFusion Development Let us rejoice … …for Cold Fusion supports code reuse Custom Tags… Yeeow! <CFINCLUDE …> <CF_MYCOOLNEWTAG …> <CF_MODULE> Speed up development Reduce maintenance and debugging

  11. Resources for ColdFusion Development 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)

  12. Resources for ColdFusion Development Allaire Developer Site http://www.allaire.com/developer/index.cfm Allaire Self-paced Training Skillbuilding with ColdFusion Allaire Alive Macromedia Resource Center: http://macromedia.com/resources/ Macromedia Universityhttp://macromedia.elementk.com/campus/my_courses.asp CFUG–SC: ColdFusion Users Group State College http://www.cfug-sc.org/ CFUG ListServe – a happenin’ place…

  13. Resources for ColdFusion Development WebMonkey Coldfusion Tutorial:http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/coldfusion/tutorials/tutorial2.html SQL: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/backend/databases/tutorials/tutorial3.html ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit -Ben Forta, Published by Que Ben Forta’s web site CFUG–SC: ColdFusion Users Group State College http://www.cfug-sc.org/

  14. 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/partners/Training.cfm Instructor-led Independent Education/Training Companies e.g. Learning Tree International ColdFusion & Ultradev

  15. Resources for ColdFusion Development ? Questions?

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