Get an overview of the ColdFusion language CFML and the power that is available to you. Whether you are coming from another programming language or are new to programming this talk will get you up to speed on the basics of programming in CF.

Learn how to create new pdfs, manipulate existing ones and print out the result automatically. This session will create a proposal pdf containing a custom letter with headers and footers, parts of other pdfs, screenshots of other work, a confidential watermark, a password to open and many other features. The created pdf will be printed at the end of the session.

Presentation given at CFinNC. ColdFusion is all about making the hard things easy. This topic will explore this concept by showing examples of what can be done with one line of ColdFusion to produce compelling results in AJAX, Rich Internet Applications, Converting Files, PDF and Object-Relational Mapping (ORM).