Really great stuff to read...
Michael's site, Fushion Authority... Read some of his writing
and the style guide floating around out there.
Get subscribed to CFDJ(Cold Fusion Developers Journal)
Ben has a column in there that is always good stuff.
Read the allaire knowledge base... (Lots of information
in there) Specifically there is stuff about locking
and when to lock. They have security advisories and
all kinds of practical things you can use in your
day to day coding, Not dry stuff like the CF Reference.
CFDJ's site has a column Ben wrote
which pretty much is the best all in one place
guide to locking variables.. which has been
posted to this list a few times actually.. Here
http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/archives/0208/forta/index.html
And here is a list of random links to some good stuff.
Check out..
The style guide is here.. Lots of good stuff
http://www.fusionauthority.com/alert/index.cfm?alertid=8#Tech1
Laws of CFSET which has a some insightful comments on using CFSET
http://www.fusionauthority.com/alert/index.cfm?alertid=3#Laws1
Text comparison in CF.. which to date most people do less effecient
than optimal in CF
http://www.fusionauthority.com/alert/index.cfm?alertid=4#Tech2
Now that is all CF specific reading.. If you want some Good books
to read about programming in General which will always enhance your
CF skills regardless.. I recommend...
Code Complete
By Steve McConnell
ISBN:Sorry i dont have this book handy ;-\
and
Rapid Development
By Steve McConnell
ISBN:1-55615-900-5
Dont let them being from Microsoft press fool you either.. They are
some of the best books to really get started on programming.
CF programming takes away a lot of the painful aspects of more
traditional languages like C, or C++ but one thing I kind of find
lacking in the CF documentation world is a guide that shows some
commomly used algorithms implemented in CF. I have tons of
Algorithm books on C and C++ which I do not find difficult to
translate a given algorithm to CF.. but people not familiar with
Perl, or C or C++ or are not familiar with more traditional
CS circles may have a ahrd time even knowing this kind of
knowledge exists. (Read: Data Structures and Algorithms)
It is somewhat of a black art in CF since you have the database
which is all you should need to structure your data right??
(I dont necesarilly believe that either)
Well in theory the relational data model should suffice for
most of your CF needs but still there are instances
where you will need more perhaps if nothing else for speed.
I guess my point is.. There is only so much you can read on
ColdFusion before you are going to need to change your focus
from anything really language specific to more generic Computer
Science practices. That kind of applies in any language
you would work with.
Jeremy Allen
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-----Original Message-----
From: Angil Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 10:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CFLOCK presentation
Hi dee ho..
on you're page with sample code, try bringing all the code in as one
block..having to cycle for each line of code to fly in is a bit tedious..
or are you going to be explaining every line as it zooms in on the screen?
on the More Control slide, I think the first point should be "Will pay more
attention TO how variables are accessed"
All in all it looks rather nice.
As for the content, it does explain CFLock and its uses to me, however it
would also generate a lot of questions as well depending on the level of
expertise of you're audience. :-)
I've been bad it seems though, as I've not used this tag in any of my web
apps. It seems I need to do a lot more reading and research. Is there
anything after Ben Forta's books to read on CF??
-Gel
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Everland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have the presentation I am gonna be giving tonight. Could everyone
> take a look and see what they have to say about it. Now I know not
everyone
> will agree, but I looked through every reference I had, Forta, CF-Talk,
> Allaire (3 pdfs I went through) and I tried to get what the majority of
> everyone was saying and what made sense and not. So here you are
> http://www.dixonusa.com/cflock.ppt
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