Adobe offering Flex training for ColdFusion developers

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Posted in Flex, ColdFusion | Posted on 11-03-2009 | 2,849 views

This is pretty cool - Adobe will be starting a multi-city tour this month offering free training in Flex and Flash Builder 4. This training is specifically targeted to experienced ColdFusion developers. Did I mention it was free? Yep - 100% free. The tour begins on November 13 in Texas and ends on the 20th in San Francisco. You can find a complete list, and more details, here: http://www.ce1.com/adobe/2009/flextrainingforcfdevelopers/. It looks like registration is required and limited, so get to it!

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nic said on 11-03-2009 at 6:26 AM #
	I guess between Texas and Frisco there wont be a stop-over in Zurich? ;-)... :-/

Raymond Camden said on 11-03-2009 at 6:28 AM #
	Nope, US only. But maybe if it is successful Adobe will do it in Europe as well? No idea - but one can hope. :)

Jen said on 11-03-2009 at 7:17 AM #
	No stop in NYC? Too bad. Could have got a car load of coworkers to drive down. Oh, well.

pritesh said on 11-03-2009 at 7:59 AM #
	I am in India and don't know when I will get change. Hope it will recorded and available to view later....

Raymond Camden said on 11-03-2009 at 10:26 AM #
	I said this in Twitter too but I thought I'd share it here. I know you guys aren't _seriously_ complaining, but I find it sad that almost 100% of the feedback is "why not my city?" That just seems wrong. p.s. Again - I'm not trying to attack you guys... just that it seems that way in comments here and in what I'm seeing on Twitter.

mike said on 11-03-2009 at 10:39 AM #
	Booo.... no Seattle. Any chance on a second tour?

Jody Fitzpatrick said on 11-03-2009 at 11:28 AM #
	I might go to the conference in DC its only a few hours away.

Jen said on 11-03-2009 at 11:38 AM #

Ray,

I can't afford to fly anywhere free training or not. And my boss is not going to pay for the same reason. In fact, conference fees are the least of my worries. Travel and hotel costs are the prohibitive factor.

NYC and Seattle are huge cities. NYC in particular can pull people from all over the NE. If Adobe wants to promote their products they should go to where the developers are and consider that free training or conferences do not mean a thing when you can't afford to travel there.

I would pay to go to something like this if I didn't have to fly and pony up for a hotel.

Raymond Camden said on 11-03-2009 at 11:44 AM #
	I agree that it would be nice if the tour went to more cities... I just can't understand why that seems to be the _only_ reaction here. I mean if you can't get to one of the cities, that's unfortunate - but I'd like to see _some_ positive reaction here from somebody. ;) Especially when you consider how many demos we have sat through with Flex that made use of PHP on the back end.

Gary Funk said on 11-03-2009 at 12:23 PM #
	I have signed up. I am very happy Adobe is dong this. I suspect that the sites picked have to do with the location of some Adobe emloyees and others in that city.

Michael De Jonghe said on 11-03-2009 at 12:33 PM #
	Thank you Ray. Thank you Adobe. This is exactly what I've been waiting for.

matthopson said on 11-03-2009 at 12:39 PM #
	Good stuff here. I'm one of the fortunate ones, being in Plano, but I would have traveled for this no problem. As mentioned, it will be nice to see some good CF-driven examples. Thanks ray for keeping us all up on things.

Matthew Zimmer said on 11-03-2009 at 4:01 PM #
	Sweet! Thank you, Adobe! Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 rock! I just signed up for the one in Atlanta, GA. I live in Orlando, FL so it looks like a ROOOOAAADDD TRIIIIPPP is in store for me! Now all is left to do is determine if the company will pay for it or will I have to spend some hard earned vacation hours for this? :-)

Jaana Gilbert said on 11-03-2009 at 8:46 PM #
	I was excited that a city in NC was part of the tour. I signed up immediately and don't mind the over 2hr drive. I wouldn't be surprised if the training in our location will be booked in a matter of days.

Sebastiaan said on 11-04-2009 at 4:19 AM #
	Hi Ray, first reaction was WOW, great! Good move! Seeing how much loving CF is getting in Europe nowadays I'm hoping Adobe HQ in Amsterdam lets Prisma IT organize a similar free one day course for the CFUG NL - good incentive for all CF'ers in the Netherlands to join our CFUG ;-) So Adobe Europe, it's up to you, we're ready ;-)

Tim said on 11-05-2009 at 11:02 PM #

From what I have gathered, RDS needs to be enabled in the CF admin for cfc communication. Is this required? If so, what are the odds of a 3rd party web host to enable RDS? (I'm guessing none w/o a dedicated server at $225/month.) I'd love to greatly minimize the various UI display issues with the various browsers and versions using Flex and CF, but unfortunately it's out of my budget. - Any thoughts?

Raymond Camden said on 11-06-2009 at 6:26 AM #
	@Tim: Absolutely not. RDS is used by IDEs to get file and DB info. It is not used by Flex. That feature is "Flash Remoting".

Tim said on 11-06-2009 at 10:56 AM #
	Thanks for the clarification... I panicked a bit looking skimming a couple of tutorials. Glad i did not cancel the training in Chicago.

Tom Kamnikar said on 11-15-2009 at 7:58 PM #

Ray - thanks for the heads up on this! I live in South Dakota but fortunately all my family lives in Denver - therefore I got to fly down here this weekend and will be atteding the seminar tomorrow! I've very excited about it! I've been developing in CF for 5 years now but never tried out Flex- But my boss wants me to check it out and see what I can bring back as far as new and fresh ideas! Thanks again for the heads up!

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