Adobe^® ColdFusion^® 8

Fast Track to ColdFusion 8
Duration: 2 Days | 2 Weekends | 16 Hrs.

Description:
Fast Track to ColdFusion 8 is a 3-day course that provides experienced Web developers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to start building and maintaining dynamic and interactive Web applications using ColdFusion 8.

Eligibility / Audience:
• A familiarity with Web terminology
• An understanding of Web server characteristics
• Experience with the HTML tag set and syntax
• Familiarity with the SQL command set, including SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE

Course Outline:
Unit 1: Introducing the Course
Unit 2: Getting Started with ColdFusion
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
Duration: 3 Days | 3 Weekends | 24 Hrs.

Description:
Advanced ColdFusion 8 Development provides ColdFusion application developers with the knowledge and hands-on practice that they need to build, maintain, and scale effective web applications. Topics include using the Application Framework, manipulating complex data in arrays and structures, structuring your code with ColdFusion Components, gracefully handling errors and exceptions, encapsulating your user-interface with custom tags, creating and consuming web services, leveraging .NET assemblies, creating and manipulating PDF content, and working with highly interactive interfaces using Adobe Livecycle forms. This course focuses on creating and delivering scalable and well-performing applications.

Eligibility / Audience:
This course is for developers with prior ColdFusion experience. To take this course, you should have:
• Completed the Fast Track to ColdFusion 8 course, or other equivalent experience building ColdFusion applications.
• Experience developing web applications using ColdFusion for at least three months upon completion of the Fast Track to ColdFusion 8 course.
• Practical experience using CFML tags, functions, and variables.
• Practical experience with the SQL command set, including SELECT, INSERT, and UPDATE.

Course Outline:
Unit 1: Introducing the Course
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