Being a seasoned Coldfusion developer who has been coding Coldfusion MX
since its launch and also now the MX 6.1 outing little seems to phase me.
But moving into the CFC arena and starting to develop 'Rich Internet
Application' it has become almost a standard requirement for me to branch
into the Flash MX environment. This scares the hell out of me as I have been
told that CF'ers And FMX'ers work best away from each other only coming
together when the applications they develop need to talk.
So as you can tell, it is with much trepidation that I have ventured forth
into the darkness with only my trusty gardener 'Sam' to protect me (sorry,
wrong story). However, I feel almost as daunted as young Mr Frodo in my
quest to bring better applications to my clients.
The question I am finally getting to is this, how many of you guys have
already gone blindly forth into the night and found your way through the
dead marshes to achieve the goal of a Flash CF hybrid programmer? If so, how
many of those of you that have got this far, have some good advice for those
of us still putting our toe in the water so to speak? Are there any tried
and trusted resources? Books, Online tutorials, presentations, etc.
And also, of those that failed and followed the lights to join the dead
within the marshes, what would you warn me against?
Working as a freelancer it is important that I don't spend a great deal of
time following a path that has been trodden before which bears no fruit.
This List has always shown a mature and constructive response to my post in
the past and I hope this is true again here.
Ellis C Wood BSc
Macromedia Certified Coldfusion MX Developer
Ellwood Web Solutions
