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SDG ColdFusion Training

A series of training sessions I wrote and conducted; based on the official Adobe training, but rewritten and expanded some to better work for an audience of experienced developers who know earlier CF versions. Also removed the Dreamweaver dependencies.
SDG Advanced ColdFusion Training: Session 1
Jumping right in to the advanced material to cover the creation of components, application and session frameworks, and scope locking. Includes hands-on practice suggestions
SDG Advanced ColdFusion Training: Session 2
Digging into lists, queries, looping, transactions, and importing data with CFFILE and query functions; includes hands-on practice suggestions
SDG Advanced ColdFusion Training: Session 3
Finishing up our advanced look into various data types by looking at arrays, structures, and complex data; includes hands-on practice suggestions
SDG Advanced ColdFusion Training: Session 4
The next step in components, instance-based components, and using public/private methods, as well as the Administrator API and prototyping with cfinterface
SDG Advanced ColdFusion Training: Session 5
Creating an exception handling framework by utilizing cftry/cfcatch, cfthrow, onError(), onMissingTemplate(), and the server-wide error handlers; code/content reuse with custom tags; basic .Net integration; utilizing web services
SDG Advanced ColdFusion Training: Session 6
Using cfdocument for generating PDFs from HTML, cfpdf to manipulate existing PDFs, and using cfpdfform to pre-fill and process PDF form submissions; manipulating images using the cfimage tag and image functions; creating and consuming RSS with cffeed
SDG Advanced ColdFusion Training: Session 7
For our final advanced training session, we explored a variety of ways to identify bottlenecks that may be hindering application performance, and using caching and threading to deal with them.
SDG ColdFusion Training: Session 1
Gives a reintroduction to web dev and ColdFusion, some ColdFusion basics, and start of database interactions
SDG ColdFusion Training: Session 2
Covering the basics of HTML forms, ColdFusion forms, conditional statements, and starts dynamic queries
SDG ColdFusion Training: Session 3
Iin this section we went over creating drill-down interfaces, basic on-the-fly PDFs and Tabbed Interfaces, inserting/updating/deleting data from a database, and some basic application security.
SDG ColdFusion Training: Session 4
For the last session covering the introductory material, we looed at ways of reusing code, including custom tags, UDFs, and Components; we also looked more at code security and some basics on the application and session frameworks.

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