I too am reading it and Ben, Raymond and all the other contributors to the 3 parts series do a great job of building upon concepts and leading you through reasoning behind code practices and choices. In multiple areas, they start with a basic code structure for a problem first and then follow up with a slightly improved version and sometimes a third iteration - each time walking you through the reasoning behind the change.
They discuss structuring your code, how to use Application.cfc as well as the methods within it. All of this is perfect for helping you to start to build apps and from this knowledge, you can better asses which framework you might want to choose later. I would highly suggest starting with the CFWACK books. For all the time I have spent looking for a best way to teach myself Coldfusion, i havent found a better foundation, On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:49 PM, John Barrett <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am reading CFWACK and I highly recommend it! > John > On Feb 22, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Nathan Blixt wrote: > > > > > With all these coding terms being thrown around, it's hard to know > > which > > method to focus on. Having used (and still using) classic ASP, I've > > grown accustomed to the spaghetti method of coding...some asp here, a > > little javascript there, some html, some more asp... I've heard > > this is > > a bad way to code for maintenance reasons. > > > > Now that I've started hacking my way into CF, I can't help but > > wonder if > > there is a right and a wrong way to write CF apps. I've looked into > > CFOOP and decided that wasn't the way to go. Ray Camden said CF > > shouldn't be used as an OO language and that was enough for me. > > > > Does anybody know if Ben Forta's books shows how to write properly > > structured CF apps? I know all about skinning the cat in programming, > > but since I'm learning CF I might as well learn it right instead of > > just > > throwing some code together. > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > Nathan Blixt > > BluePX Media > > http://www.bluepx.com > > [email protected] > > 906-420-2955 > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-newbie/message.cfm/messageid:4392 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-newbie/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.15
