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I just wanted to dump some of the news for this week in the Adobe ColdFusion World. Looks like we are getting loads of free stuff recently.
It all started with ColdFusion being free for educational purposes a few months ago
Than, in a few more months, a free ColdFusion hosting was anounced.
Now, to the latest news, you can get free ColdFusion training by using Adobe’s ColdFusion 8 project-based curriculum.
The lastest has two separate modules:
Introduction to ColdFusion 8
This course covers the basics of ColdFusion and focuses on best practices and design, while stressing the importance of usability, optimization, and performance.
- Unit 1: getting started with ColdFusion 8
- Unit 2: building ColdFusion applications
- Unit 3: publishing database content
- Unit 4: building forms with ColdFusion
- Unit 5: building search interfaces
- Unit 6: building a drill-down interface
- Unit 7: inserting new data
- Unit 8: updating and deleting data
- Unit 9: reusing templates
- Unit 10: securing an application
Advanced ColdFusion 8 Development
This course is designed to teach you how to take full advantage of ColdFusion 8 while building web applications. The course focuses on best practices and design, stressing the importance of usability, code reuse, performance, and scalability
- Unit 1: getting started
- Unit 2: introduction to components
- Unit 3: manipulating lists and queries
- Unit 4: manipulating data with arrays and structures
- Unit 5: advanced component concepts
- Unit 6: handling errors and exceptions
- Unit 7: code and content reuse
- Unit 8: working with pdf files and forms
- Unit 9: data and file manipulation in ColdFusion
- Unit 10: scaling applications
