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Macromedia Flex - RIAs for Local Government

Keywords: MXML, Flash, RIA, government

Abstract

With the release of Macromedia's Flex presentations server and Flash Platform, Creating rich web based applications has become a mater of putting together some XML and ActionScript. This presentation with take you through the processes of a local governemnt's development of RIA's using Flex to gain greater acception of web based services, but also reduce the labor of some departments based on access to the information for the people we serve.

Flex and the IDE, Flex Builder, will display how these applications were built and deployed. Providing a very productive product to create Rich Internet Applications, by as single developer in a small to mid-sized city, my beloved City of Canton, Goergia.

Table of Contents

1. Product Presentation Paper    
Biography

1. Product Presentation Paper

The author did not prepare a summary of this product presentation for the proceedings.

Biography

Bryan Tidd
Director of Technology
City of Canton
Canton
Georgia
United States of America

Bryan Tidd finished his Master's Degree in Physics in 1996, then went directly to work for a software development company for governmental and non-profit accounting. Seeing the lack of leadership and insite at local government level, he accepted the position as the first Director of Technology for the City of Canton in 2000.Knowing that the Internet is the face of most companies and institutions, He began building small web applications in crude html and JavaScript. He then rewrote them in Macromedia's ColdFusion CFML. Know those and other applications are being replaced by Macromedia Flex RIA's. Flex is based on MXML (Macromedia's namespaced derivative of XML and ActionScript 2, an Emacscript scripting language not unlike JavaScript).


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