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vchris
Anyone know of a great book for an intermediate CF programmer?
Skemcin
Anything authored or co-authored by Ben Forta.

Here are his latest:
http://www.forta.com/books/

I also have:
http://www.amazon.com/Sams-Teach-Yourself-...n/dp/067232279X
plus a couple more.
pulpfiction
Try this...
Programming Coldfusion MX By Rob Brooks-Bilson
You can find a online copy in books.google.com
vchris
The first one is huge! 1800 pages!!! Is it more advanced or does it just cover A-Z that an intermediate could understand?

I think the second one best suites me. Not to big and contains what I need to know at this point.

Thanks for the those links Skemcin.

pulpfiction: The O'reilly are pretty good. I'll check it out.
Skemcin
The first seven chapters of the first book I mentioned could probably be skipped - thats 160 pages right there - given your level of knowledge. The next 11 chapters (320 pages) would be good to review even if parts reiterate what yo might know. The rest of the book covers a variety of intermediate and advanced techniques that I think are worth at least becoming familiar with - not learning completely until you come to a need for it - but without know what you could do, you'll never know if a solution is possible or if there is a more efficient way of doing it.

In any case, the 21 Days book is very straight forward and I think you would like it.

Come to think of it - you might even consider the "Developer Study Guide" for the ColdFusion MX Certification exam.

If has some pretty interesting stuff.

author: Ben Forta
ISBN: 0-321-18058-5

Here are other ISBN numbers for the text mentioned:
0-321-22367-5
0-672-32432-6
0-321-29269-3
vchris
I checked out the Programming Coldfusion MX By Rob Brooks-Bilson book and it seems pretty good ~1000 pages. The Ben Forta book I'm loosing about 300 pages since I know all that stuff already.

Skemcin did you try that book by rob brooks-bilson?
Skemcin
QUOTE (vchris @ Dec 14 2006, 08:21 AM) *
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Skemcin did you try that book by rob brooks-bilson?

nope - I've not had the time to venture too far into new territory - once I get this one side job off my back, I can start "playing" again...
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