Flex Builder, PDT, VMware = AMFPHP hotness
I am going to Kauai for a week and of course I had to have everything work without an internet connection. I also am about a month behind on some stuff for The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development book so I figure a beach, mojito, and a laptop can get a lot done. I installed VMWare Server on my laptop and got a copy of Gentoo PHP Web Development Appliance for VMware. Mapped my eclipse work space to the samba share of the home directory of the web servers document root and now I have Flex Builder 3 and PDT to do development against a real linux server. In the one hour I have this configured I have realized that I have probably wasted at least a month of my life dragging files out of my workspace and uploading them to a development server. Now I have a local debugger, code complete, svn, and all the other goodness eclipse offers for AS3 and PHP and if at any time I want to see what it is going to look like on the server I just refresh my browser which is pointing at the virtual server. If anyone else spends the majority of there switching between client server development get this setup going. You will never know how you lived without it. Let me know if you need help! Change makes the world a better place.
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