I have not yet had to create a site for an Intranet - or something that may be seen by visitors in only one locale/language. So even though I don't work on enterprise-level projects, everything I do goes on the big network (www) and whatever I do from here on will be global, even if it's in only one language, say English.

Even a small project for a local business can be seen by everyone because the big network is all over the place. But not everyone speaks English. I speak Spanish, which makes me a member of a huge community right here in the U.S.A. (there are more Hispanics – 39 million as of June 2003, said USA Today - in this country than there are Canadians in Canada).

So, if I have a product or service to offer, wouldn't it be foolish to limit my potential customers by ignoring that group? A lot of them are going to run into my web site anyway and it would be good if they can all read what I have to say, no?

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Book errata can cause a lot of frustration, especially the "little" errors. Anyone can catch that something is missing, or a big, glaring mistake. In the case of Flex 2 Training from the Source, a slight error can make newbies like me (the very audience the book is intended for) go bananas.

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I know there are a bunch of us Flex newbies using the TFS book to learn Flex 2. From the start, I wanted to work on this project in my existing ColdFusion Server Developer set-up. Adding another instance of the server to my system just scared the hell out of me; I think I got it more or less figured out.

To the gurus, this is child's play, but to me, it's terrifying rocket science; I know there are others in the same boat I am, so here I am describing what I did, hoping it will help other beginners:

I edited the paths in all the HTTPService tags, WebService tags and .cfm files to work in my system set-up. The dot-notated paths in the CFCs worked for me the way they were written, but you may want to check those to make sure they work in your system configuration.

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