Interested in learning how to connect Flex and ColdFusion? Well do not miss out on my upcoming Adobe Connect Presentation for the Orange County ColdFusion User Group this Thursday September 20th 2007 at 6:30 p.m. PST.

My presentation will include a walk through of a simple CRUD application that will demonstrate creating, reading, updating and deleting content from a database via Flex and ColdFusion. Beyond the connectivity portion of the presentation and time permitting I will also try to cover some key Flex concepts and design patterns such as the use of a Events and Value Objects. Understanding these Flex concepts will greatly assist in learning how to build great Flex apps that hook into ColdFusion for server side connectivity.

To attend in person or online check out the Orange County ColdFusion User Group website for details. I believe there will also be a recording available shortly after for those who cannot attend.

Join me for an introductory Apollo session at the MiniMax 6 Conference in Toronto on Saturday April 21st 2007.

MiniMAX 6 is a series of 15 minute tutorials provided by some of the best experts in the web, print, broadcast and interactive design and development community in the greater Toronto area and across North America. Expect to see sessions on Flash, After Effects, Flex, Photoshop, Dreamweaver as well as other Adobe related applications mixed in for good pleasure.

Additional Speakers at the Conference:

• Adam Bell of dataTv
• James Cullin of Humber College
• Tom Green of Humber College
• Bill Klengensmith of Rochester's Institute of Technology
• Patti Russoti of Rochester's Institute of Technology

Admission is free (as in beer) however space is limited and registration is required. To register for MiniMax 6 Click Here

Location | Date and Time

April 21, 2007 @ 3:00 pm

Resistor Gallery
284 College Street 2nd Floor
Toronto
416.849.3975
Directions

April 11th 2007 I'll be at the CFUG Toronto meeting giving a demonstrating on how to access a CRUD cfc using Remoting with Flex. This will be the first of a series of Flex/ColdFusion integration tutorials suitable for Flex and CF newcomers.

Also Ray Camden will be chiming at the meeting with a presentation on Adobe's Spry framework for Ajax.

Meeting details:

April 11, 2007
Tippet Room of the Metro Central YMCA
20 Grosvenor Street Toronto
Presentation starting at 7:00pm

This meeting will be broadcast and recorded using Adobe Connect at this url: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/cfugtorontoapril2007/
Adobe schwag will be raffled off to the people who physically attend the meeting.

At the office we order allot of pizza and while we found ordering online preferable the actual ordering experience was lacking to say the least. So back in 2005 I used the scenario as an R&D project with Flex 1.5 and later ported it Flex 2 back in May of 2006. My plan was to build a pizza ordering system where you could drag and drop pizza toppings on to a pizza and actually see whatever combination of toppings you selected appear photo realistic in real time. Although the system is really an unfinished symphony I think might help stimulate others to think creatively about what they can do with flex. One small thing I'd like to mention about the app is that we did all the photography (even the icons) in the office ourselves with real ingredients.

To experience the Flex Pizza Builder click on the images below:

The Front End Customer View

The Back End Order Taker View

I got a few requests asking how to download files from a server with Flex 2. In response I created this fast and dirty example to illustrate how it can be done. View Source is enabled and I have also commented the code to provide explanation to what is going on.

Excellent new! Adobe has put Flex Builder 2 for OS X out on their labs. Check It Out

I just thought I would take the time to share with everyone the birth of flex project. The project is an online store that will sell wristbands. These wristbands are the type of bands you would get to show proof admission or legal drinking age. Currently the application uses place holder products source from an xml file. Over time this will change, as we near completion. From here on in I will chronicle the development of the project, starting with today's build.

Awrist Build 0.1 Oct 17, 2006

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Lynda.com has recently released a new set of video tutorials on Flex titled Flex 2 Beyond the Basics by instructor David Gassner. Lynda.com has also produced two more sets of Flex related tutorials as well to round out the topic. They are: Flex 2 Essential Training and ActionScript 3.0 Essential Training I highly recommend every one check them out.

My new Adobe Developer Center article entitled Multiple file upload with Flex and ColdFusion is a more detailed break down of my previous blog entry/demo on the same subject. It was published today so check it out.

Tom Lee has posted some nice instructions for folks trying to develop flex 2 apps on their macs. His intructions show how to edit and complile flex apps in dreamweaver for OS X check it out