Foundation ColdFusion for Flash

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Summary: Very Helpful
Review: Contrary to some of the other reviews, I found this to be a great guide in incorporating Flash and ColdFusion. This book is great for the beginner and intermediate level programmers and is very easy to follow and understand. Some of the other reviewers on this book stated they did not learn anything, but I sure did.(...)

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Summary: For the Beginner
Review: Having a background in flash development i was looking for a book which would teach me the interaction between a web language and flash. The title of the book suggested a good place to start and i wasn't dissapointed. There are grammatical errors but this book isnt trying to teach you correct english but the interface of flash and coldfusion. having no background in web language development i found this book refreshingly aimed at people like myself who want answers to questions you would normally be to embarrased to ask...well done!!

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Summary: Seems like they rushed this book
Review: Having already built a site using Flash 5 and a ColdFusion backend, I was looking to improve my skills and learn some new methods. As it turns out, I skimmed the book looking for anything intuitive, and found myself very disappointed.

If you can ignore the countless grammatical and spelling errors (which seem to average 1 per page), you may be able to understand what the authors are attempting to communicate. There is some good information in the book, but some examples of code are written inefficiently and I would not recommend learning from them.

If you have even intermediate experience with ColdFusion and Flash 5, I don't think you're going to get anything out of this book. This book is for someone who has no prior or very little experience with ColdFusion.

I questioned, in particular, the authors' Actionscript code, as some procedures they outlined could have been written more intuitively. The chronology of their explanations are confusing at times.

I have a healthy library of internet-related development books, and they're all useful to me to this day. Foundation ColdFusion for Flash, though, was a disappointment. This is the first time I have ever felt more knowledgable on the subject material than the authors themselves.

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Summary: untitled
Review: I don't want to be harsh. I'm fairly certain that many people put a lot of effort into this book. I just didn't think that it was really a worth the effort though.

Essentially the only chapter I found useful was chapter 5. Of course, one chapter doesn't make the book worthwhile though.

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Summary: untitled
Review: I don't want to be harsh. I'm fairly certain that many people put a lot of effort into this book. I just didn't think that it was really a worth the effort though.

Essentially the only chapter I found useful was chapter 5. Of course, one chapter doesn't make the book worthwhile though.

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Summary: Great for the CF beginner
Review: If you're an intermediate-level Flash developer looking to get into some database stuff with Flash and ColdFusion, this is the book for you. It contains a case study (a forum) that they take through the book. One great thing they do is create a working example of the forum in straight CF before having you reformat all the code to put into Flash. It really helped me see how ColdFusion works by itself, and made the Flash frontend all the more impressive. Highly recommended (typos aside), but only for CF NEWBIES. (While it gives enough CF and SQL to get you going, you'll need a deeper reference to go much further). Excellent resource for its target audience. Gets 4 stars, but only because of the excessive number of typos.

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Summary: Far and beyond --- in the wrong direction
Review: Long ago I wrote in a review of a Flash book that I intended to write a book showing how to use ColdFusion and Flash together. I finally got to co-write and publish a ColdFusion book albeit not the intended book. Afterwards, Macromedia and Allaire merged. I then thought that my intended book would become even more important. In fact it is (see the coming ColdFusion MX product).

So when I learned about this book, I was excited to see that such attempt was finally made. To my great disappointment (see also other similar review here) this book is poor in content, writing style and in understanding. I am not reviewing the authors (who could well be experts in their fields) and nor is this the goal of any reviews here. But this book itself is a great frustation and shows a lack of understanding of ColdFusion and, most important, of the power of bringing together Flash and ColdFusion. The examples in the book are also far from satisfying.

Flash experts with little or no knowledge of databases and application servers like ColdFusion may unfortunately get the wrong idea and understanding of them.

I just hope that experts from both fields (ColdFusion and Flash) will not think that what they see and understand from this book is any signal of the real potential behind bringing these two tools together.

This possibility alone is certainly one of the major flaws of this book.

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Summary: This book [stinks]
Review: This book [stinks]!

I bought this book trying to merge my knowledge of ColdFusion and Flash. It disappointed me. It gives you step-by-step instructions but doesn't give you the "whys".

It will not teach you ColdFusion or Flash or other techniques like generating XML to crate objects in Flash.

If you want to learn ColdFusion get other book (like Forta's or Brooks'). If you want to learn Flash well this is the wrong book because 80 % of it is pure HTML

I just wasted my time and money with this book.

Rating:
Summary: This book [stinks]
Review: This book [stinks]!

I bought this book trying to merge my knowledge of ColdFusion and Flash. It disappointed me. It gives you step-by-step instructions but doesn't give you the "whys".

It will not teach you ColdFusion or Flash or other techniques like generating XML to crate objects in Flash.

If you want to learn ColdFusion get other book (like Forta's or Brooks'). If you want to learn Flash well this is the wrong book because 80 % of it is pure HTML

I just wasted my time and money with this book.