My copy of Jeff Peters’ books arrived just yesterday at 160 pages long. As far as i know it’s one of two books that address a specific Cold Fusion topic rather than the single mass of ‘Cold Fusion’ (the other being the CFC book published by Techspedition).
I haven’t worked out which category i fall into that Jeff sets out in the introduction, probably the developer studying for certification and the developer ‘pushing the envelope’. I’ve finished reading the chapter on Lists and so far so good. The problem with learning any language is knowing all the functions that are available to you confidently enough to use them efficiently and correctly, something this book will certainly provide you with. Jeff talks through each list function and then provides a chunk of code to demonstrate the use of each function. At the end of the chapter Jeff provides around 10 real world example usages of list functions from phone number parsing to looping over a list.
Anyway, I’m a few pages into the Arrays chapter (something i definitely need to brush up on) so when i’ve finished that i’ll post a further report.
June 11th, 2004 at 4:52 pm
John, you’ll be interested to know that my latest book, Fusebox 4 & FLiP: Master-Class ColdFusion Applications, is available now at ProtonArts.com.
- Jeff