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Flex Your ColdFusion Muscles
Team Macromedia member, Matt Woodward, discusses how Macromedia Flex offers ColdFusion developers an incredibly powerful and easy way to build Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) by combining their existing ColdFusion skills with the new capabilities of Flex. Matt talks about how you can give an existing ColdFusion application a completely new RIA interface with surprisingly little code. Matt also illustrates some of the fantastic data presentation capabilities of Flex and how ColdFusion developers can give their users a better experience with RIAs built with Flex.
What You Will Learn
- A brief overview of what Flex is and how it works
- Why you should care about Flex and RIAs
- What applications are well-suited to be built as RIAs
- How to use ColdFusion and Flex to build RIAs
Watch the Breeze seminar (Presentation approximately 54 minutes, follow-up questions continue for another hour.)
Figure 1. Giving an RIA interface to an existing ColdFusion application through Flex UI components and controls
Macromedia offers live, in-depth product presentations called Macrochats—technical discussions led by product engineers, technical support engineers, and customer leaders. Macrochat content varies across all Macromedia products and technical levels.
Macrochats are recorded online using Macromedia Breeze Live. There is no charge to participate. While you are viewing, please keep in mind that these presentations were delivered to a live audience.
For a list of upcoming Macrochats, view the Macrochat schedule. For a list of past Macrochats, vist the Recorded Macrochats page.
About the author
Matt Woodward is a web application developer for i2 Technologies in Dallas, and also works as a consultant through his company, Sixth Floor Software. He is a Macromedia Certified ColdFusion developer and has been working with ColdFusion since 1996. In addition to his ColdFusion work, Matt also develops in Java and PHP.
In a former life Matt was a trumpet player, as evidenced by his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in trumpet performance (as well as his dented lips). Web development was always a time-consuming hobby even during his music studies, and while he was a PhD student Matt developed numerous course websites for the College of Music at the University of North Texas. After completing his course work, Matt decided developing web applications was more fun than writing a dissertation, so he took a job as a web application developer for Neiman Marcus and has been a full-time (and then some!) web developer ever since.
Matt is currently pursuing an MSCIS degree through the University of Phoenix, which with any luck he'll complete in early 2005. In what little spare time he has, Matt enjoys movies and brewing beer.
