Yep, thanks Ray, and indeed what you are saying is that the path is defined as you require it - if you need a DBA you source one etc..
I think Flash Remoting and Flash movies have a place in development (take the Flash Expression Panel :-) but I think unless the need for having the full version of Flash is removed, there will always be a sticking point. -----Original Message----- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 September 2002 14:39 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Ben's J2EE Book, now new course to be offered by MACR > I like Flash, dont get me wrong, but if all you are doing it > linking to a DB > for a static form or grid etc, then you may as well use HTML > and no I am not > anti Flash Remoting - far from it, I just dont see the > business benefit > (development time = cost) of using say Flash for things which could be > developed in normal HTML. Ah, well, when I said 'simple' forms, I did mean something a bit more than static forms. > What I am driving at is this : there is no real 'Spectrum of > Participants' > (sorry Ray) of how to get a movie up and running. It is a complex > combination of designers/aniimators and developers to get > things working in > any decent shape or form....has this been defined? I have > seen some docs, > but I have not read 100% into them as of yet so I am open for > more pointers. > This is a good question. My opinion (and let me stress, it's MY opinion, not official MACR policy) that there is some things that the art freak could do in CFML. For example - simple CFCs. This is because CFML is so dang easy. The art freak doesn't need to be a code guru to do some very nice things in CFML that will help extend their Flash apps. I think the reverse applies. I don't think I'll ever be a Flash guru - but there are things that I can learn that will be very useful to my web application development. Certainly I'd hire the art freak to take my flash form and make it prettier - if I needed it. Ditto on the reverse side. If the art freak had issues doing complex SQL, they would let the DBA or CFML coder take over. I guess I'm saying I think the course will make me more useful as a developer. In ways, it's almost like having a _very_ extendible form of HTML at my finger tips. Once I got past the ... I don't know, not wierd, but just different feel of the Flash editor, it all came down to simple rules and action script - and any CFML person can learn AS. ======================================================================= Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Hire Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM : morpheus "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists