Lynda.com - Adobe ColdFusion 9 Essential Training

ColdFusion 9 Essential Training is a detailed overview of ColdFusion, demonstrating each of the components and tools necessary to create dynamic web sites and web applications. Author and web developer David Gassner starts this course at the very beginning: how to set up a ColdFusion application server in both the Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. Using the new ColdFusion Builder, David explains the data types and code necessary to build and deploy dynamic web pages. Throughout the course, he shows how to build web pages and forms and populate these containers with dynamic data using ColdFusion ORM (Object Relational Mapping), a new feature of ColdFusion 9. Exercise files accompany this course.

Topics include:

Using ColdFusion Builder to define a default page template
Defining a data source with ColdFusion Administrator
Creating data access ColdFusion Components (CFCs) in ColdFusion Builder
Using ColdFusion ORM (Object Relational Mapping)
Applying dynamically developed URLs to datasets
Validating data entry forms and defining client-side validation rules
Using javascript callback functions to present and manipulate AJAX-style user interface components