Combining Adobe's fifth and sixth modules, we we looked at an often overlooked, but important need for any application, the Exception Handling Framework – how your applications handles the unexpected, including bugs, system issues, and invalid user responses. We looked at ways of handling errors on the server level, application […]
In the last session, we finished looking at the different variable types, so with session 4 we moved back to components and took them to another level: instance-based components. We also took a peek at the Administrator API and reviewed the concepts of component prototyping. This session was first conducted […]
In this session, we reviewed arrays and structures, including their differences, lopping over them, and the various functions available in ColdFusion for each. We also looked into the realm of dynamic variables, complex data types, and complex data structures. This session was first conducted on July 2, 2009 and took […]
In this session, we dug into creating and manipulating lists and queries more in-depth, including the various functions available for working with each, looping over them, creating queries from “thin air”, and queries of queries. We also looked performing loops over date/time and working with , then finished by studying […]
With this session, we start the Advanced ColdFusion course. Due to the greater depth of material, these sessions will probably be one-on-one with Adobe's, except of course we skipped session 1 which is intro stuff and setting up the server and Dreamweaver. For our sessions, I also added a hands-on […]
Session 4 combines Adobe's final intro level units, 9 & 10, with quite a bit added to fill in details more. It was conducted on May 7, 2009 and took approximately 3 hours. Table of Contents: Part 10: Recycling Code Custom Tags Scoping with Custom Tags End tags Alternate calling […]
Session three, combining Adobe's Intro Units 6-8, was conducted on April 30, 2009 and took approximately 3 hours. Table of Contents: Part 6: Drill-down Interfaces Part 7: PDF and Tabbed Interface Displays Generating On-the-fly PDFs Generating Tabbed Interfaces Part 8: Data Manipulation Inserting Data The Insert Form Validating Data The […]
This second session covers what was covered in Adobe's Intro Units 4 and 5. It was conducted on April 23, 2009 and took approximately 2 hours. Table of Contents: Part 4: Building Forms The Basics of Forms Form Controls Conditional Statements Compound Conditional Statements Evaluating Form Variables Coldfusion Forms Part […]
This is the first of several sessions of ColdFusion 8 training I conducted for my fellow developers in my department. We all had exposure to and were experienced in ColdFusion, however most were still using primarily ColdFusion 5 coding. With Adobe's release of their official training materials in April 09, […]