Unit 1: Introducing the course and portal application
Unit 2: Advanced ColdFusion component concepts
- Creating instance based components
- - Associating data with components
- - Defining CFC Properties
- - Using Getters and Setters
- - Restricting Method Invocation by Role
- - WT 1: Persisting Components in Memory
- Building Components with Inheritance
- - WT 2: Using Inheritance
- Building Components with Scripting
- - WT 3: Building Components with Scripting
- Using CF Administrator API Components
- - WT 4: Using the Admin API and Java Components
Unit 3: Code and content reuse
- Creating CFML custom tags
- - WT 1: Creating a Simple CFML Custom Tag
- Creating CFML Simple Nested Custom Tags
- - WT 2: CFML Simple Nested Custom Tags to abstract your site's GUI
- .NET Integration with ColdFusion 9
- - WT 3: Using a .NET Assembly to add spell checking to ColdFusion
- Creating Web Services
- - SOAP-based services
- - RESTful services
- - WT 4: Creating a Web Service
- Calling Web Services
- - Accessing through Basic Authentication
- - Using WSSE Authentication
- - WT 5: Calling a web service
Unit 4: Handling errors and exceptions
- Introducing error handling
- Customizing application error messages
- - WT 1: Implementing a Global Error Handler
- Creating an Application-Wide Error Handler
- - Using onError()
- - Using onMissingTemplate()
- - WT 2: Handling Page-Level Errors
- Handling Exceptions with Try/Catch
- - WT 3: Capturing form information after an aborted save attempt and writing it to disk
- Creating an Exception-Handling Framework
- - Using < cfthrow >
- - Capturing thrown errors in onError()
- - WT 4: Building an Exception Handling Framework
Unit 5: Advanced user interface design
- Introducing ColdFusion AJAX Functionality
- Debugging ColdFusion AJAX Applications
- - Using the ColdFusion AJAX Logger
- - Using Firebug
- WT 1: Debugging AJAX Applications
- Making Background Data Requests
- - Returning data from Remote CFC Methods
- - Securing your AJAX Requests
- - Using < cfajaxproxy >
- - WT 2: Making Background Data Requests
- Developing the User Interface
- - Using Container Tags
- - Using < cfpod >
- - Using < cflayout >
- - Using < cfwindow >
- - WT 3: Using Layout Controls to Create a Tabbed based GUI
- Working with Bind Expressions
- - Working with Bind Expression Syntax
- - Binding Text fields with the @modifier
- - Binding to < cfselect >
- - Using a Bind Expression with < cfajaxproxy >
- - WT 4: Using Bind Expressions with < cfajaxproxy >
- Submitting Form Data Asynchronously
- - Using ColdFusion.Ajax.submitForm()
- - Explicitly invoking CFFORM Validation
- - Retrieving Object/Attribute Values
- - Building the Action Page
- - Deploying ColdFusion.Ajax.submitForm()
- - WT 5: Asynchonously Submitting Forms
- Using Special Text Input Fields
- - Using Autosuggest Text Fields
- - Working with the DateField selector
- - Using the WYSIWYG Editor
- - WT 6: Implementing the Rich Text Controls
- Working with < cfgrid >
- - WT 7: Using < cfgrid >
- Visualizing Data with Google Maps
- - WT 8: Using < cfmap >
- Working with Video
- - WT 9: Using < cfmediaplayer >
Unit 6: Working with documents
- Generating PDF Files from ColdFusion
- - WT 1: Generating a PDF
- Manipulating PDF Files with < cfpdf >
- - WT 2: Adding Watermarks and Security to a PDF
- Pre-filling PDF Forms
- - WT 3: Filling a form from a CF web service and < cfpdfform >
- Posting Data from a PDF Form to ColdFusion
- - WT 4: Handling PDF Form Submissions
- Working with Spreadsheets
- - Reading Data from a Spreadsheet
- - Populating a Spreadsheet
- - Writing a Spreadsheet to Disk
- - WT 5: Dynamically creating an Excel file with a Graph
- Creating Dynamic Presentations
- - WT 6: Creating Dynamic Powerpoint and Flash Presentations
Unit 7: Introducing Object-Relational Mapping
- Configuring your application to work with ColdFusion ORM
- - WT 1: Enabling ColdFusion ORM
- Create, Edit, Update, and Delete data using ColdFusion ORM
- - WT 2: Basic Data Management with ColdFusion ORM
- Working with multiple-table relationships in ColdFusion ORM
- - WT 3: Advanced Data Management with ColdFusion ORM
- Understanding session management in ColdFusion ORM
- - WT 4: Managing Sessions in ColdFusion ORM
Unit 8: Performance, scalability, and robustness
- Configuring for Scalability
- - WT 1: Adjusting JVM and CF Administrator Settings
- Understanding and Identifying Scalability Bottlenecks
- - WT 2: Identifying Bottlenecks using the debug output and server monitor
- Using Asynchronous Processes to Improve Performance
- - WT 3: Creating Asynchronous Processes with < cfthread >
- Caching Recordsets
- - WT 4: Caching queries using cachedwithin and as properties of components
- Caching Content with < cfcache >
- Using < cfcache > to cache RSS Feeds and programatically exprire the cache
This course is for developers with prior ColdFusion experience. Prior to taking this course, you should have:
- Completion of the Fast Track to ColdFusion 9 course, or have equivalent experience building ColdFusion applications.
- Experience developing web applications using ColdFusion for at least three months after the completion of the Fast Track to ColdFusion 9 course.
- Practical experience using CFML tags, functions, and variables.
- Practical experience with the SQL command set, including SELECT, INSERT, and UPDATE.
- General familiarity with scripting syntax
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