Oh, this one is just too cool! Tour de Flex allows users around the globe to experiment with Flex code snippets and examples. And I do mean around the globe. Greg Wilson just posted a link to a Flex dashboard which uses ILOG Elixir controls to show a real time heatmap of current Tour de Flex activity. LiveCycle Data Services are used for the connectivity, and a GeoIP database maps requests to locations. Very slick. So slick, that I'll even forgive them using PHP pages on the backend instead of ColdFusion (just this once). ;-)
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Greg
But when you go to try and develop a proof of concept to show your boss, guess what ALL the samples use java on the back end. Even the tutorials on the Adobe site do this as well. I find this very insulting as you (Adobe) should be supplying examples using the technology you sell and demonstrate. I see Greg is going to do the Tour De Flex with a CF backend (should have been this way to begin with). When will this happen ? Will there be other examples ? Should we all throw out CF and use java ?
Ken