| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. xv |
| Planning | |
| First Things First | p. 3 |
| Causes for Concern | p. 4 |
| Establishing a Foundation for Optimization | p. 11 |
| What Does the Ideal Development Environment Look Like? | p. 13 |
| The Two-Tier ColdFusion Development Model | p. 14 |
| The Scaled-Back Three-Tier ColdFusion Development Model | p. 18 |
| The Full-Featured Three-Tier ColdFusion Development Model | p. 21 |
| Summary | p. 24 |
| Targeting Areas for Optimization | p. 27 |
| Understanding and Optimizing ColdFusion Using ColdFusion Administrator | p. 29 |
| ColdFusion Server Settings | p. 29 |
| CFSTAT Versus ColdFusion Performance Monitor | p. 35 |
| Analyzing CFSTAT Output | p. 35 |
| Managing ColdFusion Request Timeout | p. 47 |
| Suppressing ColdFusion White Space | p. 47 |
| Enforcing Strict Attribute Validation | p. 49 |
| ColdFusion Caching Settings | p. 49 |
| Locking Features in ColdFusion Administrator | p. 52 |
| Enabling Performance Monitoring | p. 53 |
| Summary | p. 54 |
| Best Practices | |
| Development Coding Standards | p. 57 |
| Leaving a Bread-Crumb Trail Through Documentation | p. 59 |
| Reducing Problems Using Methodologies | p. 71 |
| Summary | p. 79 |
| Strategies That Simplify Development Tasks | p. 81 |
| Using ColdFusion Studio Projects | p. 84 |
| Configuring and Deploying ColdFusion Studio Projects | p. 90 |
| Summary | p. 92 |
| The Core of ColdFusion Optimization | |
| A Critical Look at ColdFusion Server Optimization | p. 95 |
| Diagnosing ColdFusion Problems | p. 96 |
| Access to Debugging Output in Production | p. 99 |
| Returning Errors to the Development Team After Deployment | p. 115 |
| Summary | p. 135 |
| Using the ColdFusion Studio Interactive Debugger | p. 137 |
| What Does the ColdFusion Studio Interactive Debugger Do? | p. 139 |
| What Are the Interactive Debugger Limitations? | p. 149 |
| Defining ColdFusion Studio Development Mappings | p. 152 |
| Working with Conditional Logic and the Interactive Debugger | p. 159 |
| Starting and Stopping the Debugger | p. 159 |
| Testing an Application Using the ColdFusion Studio Interactive Debugger | p. 163 |
| Summary | p. 174 |
| Insights into Optimizing ColdFusion Tags | p. 177 |
| CFABORT | p. 180 |
| CFAPPLET | p. 182 |
| CFAPPLICATION | p. 186 |
| CFASSOCIATE | p. 192 |
| CFCACHE | p. 197 |
| CFDUMP | p. 204 |
| CFERROR | p. 206 |
| CFECECUTE | p. 210 |
| CFFILE | p. 213 |
| CFFORM CFINPUT CFSELECT | p. 218 |
| CFHTTP CFHTTPPARAM | p. 227 |
| CFIF CFELSEIF CFELSE | p. 231 |
| CFINCLUDE | p. 236 |
| CFLOCK | p. 237 |
| CFMODULE | p. 243 |
| CFOUTPUT | p. 246 |
| CFPARAM | p. 248 |
| CFQUERY | p. 250 |
| CFTHROW CFRETHROW | p. 253 |
| CFSAVECONTENT | p. 257 |
| CFSETTING | p. 260 |
| CFSWITCH CFCASE CFDEFAULTCASE | p. 263 |
| CFTRY CFCATCH | p. 267 |
| Summary | p. 270 |
| Insights into Optimizing ColdFusion Functions | p. 271 |
| ColdFusion Functions | p. 272 |
| UDFs | p. 289 |
| Summary | p. 300 |
| Using SQL to Optimize ColdFusion | p. 301 |
| SQL Has More Than Four Commands | p. 303 |
| Using SQL Joins | p. 312 |
| The Subquery | p. 317 |
| Reduce ColdFusion Load by Giving Work to the Database | p. 323 |
| Using Transactions to Create Infallible Recordsets | p. 329 |
| Summary | p. 332 |
| Extending ColdFusion | p. 333 |
| Optimizing Applications with Custom Tags | p. 334 |
| Distributing Custom Tags | p. 364 |
| Summary | p. 392 |
| Performance Tuning | |
| Correcting Poor Performance | p. 395 |
| Optimizing Performance with CFSCRIPT | p. 396 |
| Reading and Coding Within CFSCRIPT | p. 398 |
| Using ColdFusion to Write Performance Tools | p. 401 |
| Using ColdFusion to Apply Artificial Load | p. 416 |
| Wasting ColdFusion Cycles and When to Optimize | p. 420 |
| Using CFSCRIPT to Tag Comparisons | p. 421 |
| Summary | p. 424 |
| Implementing Source Control | p. 425 |
| What Is Source Control? | p. 426 |
| Source Control Products Supported by ColdFusion Studio | p. 428 |
| Why Use Source Control? | p. 431 |
| Source Control and ColdFusion Studio Projects | p. 432 |
| Summary | p. 440 |
| Index | p. 441 |
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