August 2001
Intermediate to advanced
976 pages
38h 8m
English
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Chapter 1. Introducing ColdFusion
In 1989, two physicists, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, claimed that their research had uncovered a phenomenon that promised to solve the world’s energy problems. What they claimed to have accomplished was nothing short of astonishing: that they had achieved nuclear fusion at room temperature. They called their discovery Cold Fusion. Unfortunately, the scientific community at large dismissed their findings because no one was ever able to reproduce the results claimed in the original experiment. Oh wait, wrong book...
What Is Allaire’s ColdFusion?
In 1995, J.J. and Jeremy Allaire introduced a product they believed would revolutionize application development for the Web. They too called their creation ColdFusion. Unlike its infamous namesake, Allaire’s ColdFusion has delivered on the promises put forth by its creators.[2]
ColdFusion is a rapid application development platform for creating and deploying dynamic server-based web applications. Web applications exist as a collection of web pages, also known as templates, that work together to allow users to perform such tasks as reading email, buying books, or tracking packages. Web applications often act as the frontend to back-end services, such as legacy applications and databases. Some examples of web applications built using ColdFusion include Autobytel.com’s application for researching and purchasing a car (http://www.autobytel.com/) Williams-Sonoma’s storefront application (http://www.williams-sonoma.com/ ...
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