Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Third Edition

Database Design

Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Web Application Construction Kit (Web Application Construction Kit)

Format: Paperback
Author: Ben Forta
ReleaseDate: 23 March, 2005
Publisher: Macromedia Press
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BEN FORTA IS AMAZING
I can feel his passion for ColdFusion when I read the book. This man is amazing. I also have his Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes and it's the same way. I have a library of technical books, mostly software and programming language books but I don't have any that are as easy to understand and as fun to follow as the Forta books. Lastly, I love reading classical literature as well. Some of my favorites are Dante's Inferno and Milton's Paradise Lost (Tom Sawyer, Edgar Allen Poe, Dostoevsky. . . ). I rank this ColdFusion book as one of the best pieces of literature that I've ever read. That's how good it is to me.

GREAT
Everything is written clearly, great explanations, great code samples each with tons of comments. This is the first book that I bought to start learning Cold Fusion(along with the Advanced Development), and it is by far one of the easiest books to read and make use of. Must read for any soon to be or already a CF developer. .

The first time I ever enjoyed writing a data-driven site.
Not until I stumbled onto this program and this book. I have been designing web sites for over ten years, but working with data-base driven sites has always been a major pain in the butt. WOW - Should cover my feelings on this topic. Talk about simple and POWERFUL. Imagine this - instead of writing over 200 lines of HTML, writing 40 lines of Coldfusion, operating an entire site from one page and from a 170 pages down to 9 (no joke). If you're using MS Access or MySQL, it makes no difference, instant and simple. In less then a week I had the site up and running - bug free. Finding a proper hosting company that runs Coldfusion is somewhat of a pain, but it is completely worth it. If you have never made a data-driven site before, this will make the experience extremely pleasant and if you have written many, this will make you wish you knew about this before.

The book is as easy to read as the software is as easy to use.
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