Advanced ColdFusion Development

Highlander's Advanced ColdFusion training is a blended learning solution which combines our 4 day instructor led Advanced ColdFusion Development training course, with 6 months access to our Learning Management System (LMS) including support forums, extensive ColdFusion glossary, additional exercises and samples, and other online learning support.

The 4 day Advanced ColdFusion Development course is run regularly at our London centre or available at your own location, and is a great way to get up and running with ColdFusion. The course is suitable for anybody who has attended the FastTrack to ColdFusion course or who has equivalent experience.

Audience
Advanced ColdFusion 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.

Course Overview

Introducing the Course

• About the Course
• Course Overview
• Prerequisites
• Course Format

Introduction to Components

• Using the Application Framework
• Introducing CFC Syntax
• Configuring Application Settings
• Handling Application Events
• Handling Request Events
• Locking Shared Scope Variables
• Handling Session Events

Manipulating Lists and Queries

• Using Lists
• The Query Object
• Summarizing and Grouping Data
• Transaction Processing
• Querying a Query

Manipulating Data with Arrays and Structures

• Using Arrays
• Using Structures
• Using Built-In ColdFusion Data Structures
• Dynamically Evaluating Variables
• Combining Data Structures
• Accessing Data by Value or Reference

Advanced Component Concepts

• Instance-Based Components
• Creating Dynamic Getter/Setter Proxies with onMissingMethod()
• Using Built-In Components
• Prototyping Components with <cfinterface>

Handling Errors and Exceptions

• Introducing Error Handling
• Customizing Application Error Messages
• Handling Exceptions with Try/Catch
• Exception Handling Frameworks

Code and Content Reuse

• Creating Custom Tags
• Using Custom Tag Attributes
• Setting Results on the Calling Page
• Calling Custom Tags
• Creating CFML Simple Nested Custom Tags
• .NET Integration with ColdFusion
• Creating Web Services
• Calling Web Services

Working with PDF Files and Forms

• Generate PDF Files from ColdFusion
• Manipulating PDF Files with <cfpdf>
• Pre-filling PDF Forms
• Posting Data from a PDF Form to ColdFusion

Data and File Manipulation in ColdFusion

• Manipulating Image Data with <cfimage>
• Reading and Storing Image Data
• Image Processing
• Creating RSS Feeds
• Consuming RSS Feeds

Scaling Applications

• Understanding and Identifying Scalability Bottlenecks
• Caching Recordsets
• Caching Generated Results with <cf_accelerate>
• Caching Entire Page Results
• Using Asynchronous Processes to Improve Performance