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Reality ColdFusion MX: Flash MX Integration
by Ben Forta, Randy Drisgill, Dennis Baldwin, Matt Tatam, Derek Lu
List Price: $39.99
Our Price: $27.99
ISBN: 0321125150
Publisher: Macromedia Press (23 August, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 32,705
Average Customer Rating: 4.07 out of 5
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Rating: 4 out of 5
Strong Start, Weak Finish
With the myraid of new features available to Web developers who link together the Flash MX, ColdFusion MX, and Flash Communication Server MX products from Macromedia, there's a lot to be learned in very little time. I purchased this book to get a jump on both Flash Remoting and working with the Flash Communication server product. The book excells in its first two thirds, covering the construction of real-world applications which use Flash MX at their core. Some may be annoyed by the focus on the entire application development lifecycle and not merely on code, but I find this approach to be useful and refreshing. We all talk about use cases and requirements gathering, but very few of us working in small teams actually do it. The book rapidly loses its way when it comes time to discuss interaction with the Flash Communication Server. Huge chunks of code go unexplained, and the text itself suffers from poor editing. My guess is that the book was written before the 1.0 version of FlashComm was released, and the desire to not discuss code that may have changed between draft submission of the book and release of the FlashComm server is painfully evident. If you're interested in FlashComm, take a look at his book on the Flash Communication Server instead.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Decent introduction, but it's only an introduction
This book provides an acceptable introduction to Flash Remoting with CF, but there isn't enough code or explanation to allow you to start on your own until after you've learned both CF and Flash well independently. Also, at least 80% of the book talks about methodology, fake meetings, requirements gathering, and stuff like that--not the stated purpose of the book.If you have extra time, I think it's worth a read, but if you can't read everything you want to, you're better off concentrating on Flash and ColdFusion specific books.
Rating: 1 out of 5
This book is awful
This was given to me at the San Francisco Bay Area Coldfusion User Group meeting. As a technical book, the code listing and the technical advice is too sparse to be of any use. As a non-technical book, this book is too sanitized and too self-congratulatory to be interesting. Ben Forta couldn't possibly have written this book.
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