Flash for CFers: Getting Over the Hump (One Day Seminar)

Are you a newcomer to Flash, and Flash Remoting? But an experienced CF developer interested in what Flash can do, but who's had trouble getting started?

Perhaps you've heard all the hype, and you're likely impressed, until you open the program--or a typical book about it. There's so much focus on graphics, drawing, animation, and sounds, etc. If you just want to get started with it to spice up your forms and add new client-server interactivity, it can be overwhelming. But it doesn't have to be.

In this seminar, frequent CFUG speaker and CFDJ author Charlie Arehart will bring his unique style and perspective to help get you over the hump of getting started with Flash. This presentation doesn't presume you have any Flash experience, unlike so many articles and chapters on Remoting. Indeed, Flash Remoting (and CFMX) is just one of several ways to interact between Flash and the server. If you're using an older release of CF, or PHP, or even an older version of Flash, you can still take advantage of Flash Integration. This seminar will get you off on the right foot.

Partial List of Topics:

  • Why getting into Flash is worthwhile
    • The possibilities with just a little help getting started
  • The challenge of getting started on your own
    • Getting into a tool built for designers, and past preconceptions
    • Focusing on the key things we need to know
    • Getting started right: great resources
  • Understanding the Flash interface: the least you need to know
    • Building widgets and forms you can use right away
    • Adding them to your applications
    • Using the built-in user interface components
    • Extending the tool with components from the MM Exchange and DRKs
  • Understanding ActionScript: the least you need to know
    • Foundations in JavaScript, fundamental language features
  • Server integration: sending and receiving data
    • Connecting to CFMX, .NET, and J2EE with Flash Remoting
    • Connecting to those and CF5, PHP, and more with loadvars, loadvariables
    • Connecting to any server with XML
  • Debugging your applications
    • With the interactive and NetConnection debuggers
  • Common challenges and concerns
    • Dealing with issues of browser support, accessibility, printing, and more
    • Selling your colleagues and Management
    Cost: $219 per person at public classes; $2199 for an on-site presentation

    To find available dates for public seminars, see the schedule/registration page. You can also in express interest in or help arrange a seminar your area. We offer complimentary seats in classes to those who can help to bring a seminar to their company or area, in terms of promotion or finding inexpensive locations for presentation.


    Course topics and prices subject to change due to continuous improvement and refinement.

One Day Seminar Info:

| Home | ColdFusion | Articles | Presentations
| User Groups | Other Resources | Press Releases | Company

© 1998-2024, Charles Arehart, SysteManage
Our Practice Makes You Perfect