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December 18, 2006
PHP and Flex Together in Portland
If you live in Portland, OR and would like to learn more about how PHP and Flex can work together, then you should check out the January Portland PHP user group meeting. Pete Mackie, who has contributed a ton of code, documentation and help for the PHP RIA SDK will be on hand to present how the two technologies can work together. Details for Pete's talk are available online. Rumors has it that he might have a few Flex / ActionScript posters to give out.December 14, 2006
Custom Holiday Cards from Adobe
I blogged about this last week at RIApedia.com, a new blog that I've started that covers rich Internet applications built with Adobe technologies - namely Flash, Flex and Apollo, but I thought it would be of interest to the wider Adobe popluation as well... A very creative team here at Adobe (not sure who it was) has created a Flash based online Christmas card creator. Using the site, you can create your own customized Flash based holiday greeting cards. You can customize the images, borders, text color, size, and music, and then send out your cutomized greeting card to friends and family. Something fun in time for the holidays.
technorati tags:flash, riapedia, christmas, christmascards, adobe
December 13, 2006
Presenting Flex and RIAs at 2 PHP Conferences in early 07
In the past week I've received news that my proposals to speak at two PHP conferences have been accepted. I'll be speaking in March at the PHP Quebec Conference in Montreal and in May at the php|tek PHP Conference in Chicago. I'll be speaking about why PHP developers should be interested in building rich Internet applications, and how to build rich Internet applications with Flex and Ajax and PHP on the backend. The talks will be similar but not identical to the one I gave at the Zend PHP conference a few weeks ago.AMFPHP 1.9 Examples from Renaun Erickson
Renaun Erickson has created two samples that show AMFPHP 1.9 in action. The source code to both examples is available as well. (You did know that Flex applications have the option of publishing the source code right? Right click on either sample and select "View Source" to see the source code. To publish the source code for your own application, in Flex Builder select Project -> Publish Application Source...)
I will be updating the PHP RIA SDK by Adobe soon that adds samples for AMFPHP 1.9. Join the PHP RIA SDK by Adobe mailing list to stay on top of things, and discuss things with other developers who are building out solutions with Flex and PHP.
December 12, 2006
AMFPHP Adds AMF3 / Flex Support
The AMFPHP project, headed by Patrick Mineault, has added support for AMF3, the newest AMF protocol that's used by Adobe Flex and ActionScript 3. (There's a preview release of ActionScript 3 for Flash Professional on Adobe Labs.)
This means that developers now have 3 choices when choosing which PHP package to use for Flex remoting. AMFPHP, SabreAMF and WebORB from the Midnight Coders all offer AMF3 support. They are all open source projects, with the WebORB project being the only one backed by a commercial entity.
Remoting scripts like these allow PHP developers to write applications that can translate PHP objects directly into ActionScript objects in Flex and Flash projects. Without these projects, PHP developers can still build solutions that output XML (REST interfaces), and then read in that XML with Flex and ActionScript directly. However, using one of the above projects allows you to bypass serializing data into XML and then deserializing it on the client - you can transfer objects, arrays and other data types directly from the backend server to the Flex / Flash application.
What's this mean for developers? Although its more complicated to learn, its more powerful than transfering XML data... For example, when querying a MySQL database, you can transfer the mysql_result object back to the client directly: it will be available to you as an array, and you can access the items in the array directly, without having to decode any XML.
Developers interested in building RIA solutions with PHP should check out the PHP RIA SDK by Adobe. This open source project contains libraries and a number of samples that show PHP developers how to build rich Internet applications with Flex, Flash and the Spry Ajax framework. There's also a mailing list available.
technorati tags:php, flex, amfphp, sabreamf, midnightcoders, phpriasdk
December 07, 2006
Want the Flex / AS 3 posters and live in Canada?
If you want a set of the AS 3 and Flex posters and live in Canada, please leave a comment in this blog with your shipping address and I'll ship them off to you. If you live outside Canada, including the US, we're still trying to come up with a solution that will scale well enough to satisfy everyone. For now, your best bet is heading to an event that we're attending, say Javapolis or the 360 Flex conference?
(Updated to mention that international developers will be able to get the posters from our US team... Sorry for the oversight. - Mike)technorati tags:flex, actionscript, posters, canada
360 Flex Conference - March 5 - 7
The 360 Flex Conference was announced yesterday. Taking place in San Jose from March 5 - 7th, its a chance for developers to learn about Adobe Flex and building applications with Flex. The speaker lineup is a who's who of Flex and Apollo developers, including Ely Greenfield, Ben Forta, Mike Chambers, Ted Patrick, Christian Canctrell, Matt Chotin, Jesse Warden ... (for the sake of blog space I'm stopping there, but the entire speaker lineup is outstanding.)
The cost for the conference is amazingly low, just $100, thanks to the generous support of the sponsors, including eBay, Adobe, ESRIA, the Midnight Coders, CF Dynamics and silvafug. Registration is now open.
Somewhat unrelated, I've started another blog about RIA technologies including Adobe Apollo and Adobe Flex at riapedia.com. Check it out, I'm hoping to feature one new application daily. If you're writing an application and want some free publicity, use the Contact Me page to let me know about it.
technorati tags:adobe, flex, ebay, riapedia, 360flex