ColdFusion 10 WACK book contributors (myself included) now listed at Amazon
Note: This blog post is from 2013. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.By now most should know that a new CF10 version of the classic Web Application Construction Kit (or WACK) series was released some months ago:
Adobe ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit: ColdFusion 10 Enhancements and Improvements
But some may not have known who the contributors were, because since its release the Amazon site for the book had listed only Ben (Forta). Doh! :-)
Ben is indeed the series editor and a fellow contributor--and truly the glue that has held the project together since the first edition for CF3 in 1997.
But as with each edition since the first, there are indeed multiple contributors.
Amazon book page now lists all the contributors
And now the Amazon page does list all the co-authors:
Charlie Arehart, Rob Brooks-Bilson, Raymond Camden, Ken Fricklas, Hemanth Khandelwal, and Chandan Kumar.
Of course, we were indeed properly listed on the front cover, for those who may have looked--and in that same alphabetical order, whereas the Amazon site order is a bit random. Anyway, it's just nice to see this issue fixed.
Problems like that just happen sometimes, and I'd only I noticed it this week and raised it to Amazon. To their credit they were quick to update it.
And I thought some of my co-authors and perhaps others in the community might want to know about it.
Glad to mention the book
Indeed, I've been meaning simply to announce the book and my involvement here myself but got behind on many such news items, as I've just been busy (with my ColdFusion troubleshooting consulting services). Busy is good, of course!
So this was a good chance both to share the above news of the correction for any who'd noticed the issue, and to mention my involvement with the book, in case that and news of the book itself may interest some of my readers. (FWIW, I was a contributor to all 3 vols for CF 8 and 9 also, and I do thank Ben for including me in these works.)
A bit about the book
For those who hadn't noticed the book yet, it's unique in the series in that we decided to go with just a single book, just about the updates. In the past, we instead updated all 3 books throughout. There are pros and cons to either choice, of course, but I do agree that the single book was the way to go.
FWIW, I did chapters 8, 10, and 19.
I was especially delighted to get in a chapter at the end on "hidden gems", as I have loved doing (as article or talks) for each release starting with my first CFDJ article on CF 4.0. The editors chose for Chapter 19 the more sedate name of "Miscellaneous Enhancements", but I'm just thrilled we got to add the chapter at all. :-)
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And indeed that sort of issue is one reason I added the plain text link at the top. :-)
That said, there was also a problem with that last link (which is an iframe) when I first posted the entry. I noticed it when I checked the email notification, and I immediately corrected it. So some may find the image not showing at the end in the email, but will find it here on the web site.
Anyway, great to join you on the book. Here's hoping we can get the band together again on a CF11 book. :-)