From Andi Gutmans
Adobe is currently building the next generation of Flex Builder, the Eclipse based IDE for creating cross-platform rich Internet applications. In this upcoming version, a significant new set of features are being introduced to accelerate creation of data-centric applications with PHP on the server-side leveraging Zend Framework and Zend AMF. Prior to the public Beta later in the year, Adobe would like to invite a select group of PHP developers into a private pre-release program for Flex Builder. You’ll get to work with the new data-centric development features, interact with members of the product team, provide feedback, and generally help shape the future of the product. No prior experience with Flex is necessary; in fact feedback from new users would be particularly helpful. There is a brief survey here - please complete it and Adobe will send an invitation to you shortly.
Flash Platform, Zend_Amf
I have read a couple ranting emails, tweets, and blog posts about why Zend Amf does not have gzip compression; “Wade what a waste!” is my favorite one. The reality is that the AMF protocol does not have gzip compression, there is no DEFLATE call, and if you read the protocol you can find no mention of such a thing. When AMFPHP added AMF3 support it also added a php based gzip support in the same release. Hence AMFPHP now with AMF3 and Gzip compression; mutually exclusive rumor started. The compression of HTTP which is the envelop that that AMF data is transported through does not mean that AMF is compressed. This is no different than the plethora of other http service end points such as Soap, JSON, REST, XMLRPC, etc which all benefit from a properly configured web server.
If you run apache check out mod_deflate. With this approach, you tell the server what content types should be compressed, and the server does it transparently to your application. Apache is a heck of a lot faster at doing the compression than adding PHP code that uses gzcompress.
Hope this helps… and please no dirty names for someone that’s just trying to give you some free code. Go get Live Cycle DS dude!
Flash Platform, Zend_Amf
Friday, April 3, 2009 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
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A three part series on how PHP developers can develop applications with the Adobe Flash Platform. Lee Brimelow, a technical evangelist for Adobe, will go over the pieces of the Flash Platform and how PHP developers can use technologies like Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR in combination with PHP to build rich applications that work consistently across browsers in Flash Player and on the desktop using Adobe AIR.
Flash Platform, Zend_Amf
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