If you have not been to getMicrophone() go check it out. It’s an initiative to have raw access to the audio stream that is coming off the getMicrophone() method; clever url!. The project is similar to the MAKE SOME NOISE initiative. All the wonderful things that we want in the player asap! Go vote on some of these feature requests so we can see this in the next player release!
I am giving a presentation with Lee Brimelow about using Flex and PHP. Looks like it is going to be a great presentation.
I submitted an unconfrence hands on session. This requires a vote so GO VOTE if you find it interesting. If you want me to address anything in either talk just let me know.
Looking to build your first Flex application or are just curios about it’s complexity? Most people are attracted to Flex in order visualize complex data. Learn the technical details for setting up your first visualization application with charting, maps, and lazy loaded data sets. For even more fun we will use some real time data from #tek09 with the help from Zend Framework.
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.
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!
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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.
I am really excited to be showcasing Zend Framework and the work that I have been doing on Zend Amf, maybe some FB 4 sneaks, at SWFCAMP Monday the 6th in Minneapolis. There are great speakers lined up for only $40 dollars of all day training. That’s pretty slick! This mini conference is run better than most major conference because people like Danny Patterson and Dave Shroeder,FlashBelt, make sure it is executed flawlessly. The cool thing about the day is that all of the speakers will be adding onto the same project throughout the entire day. This means that we get to cover a larger application than normal. Little will be repeated and the individual speakers get to focus on their specific topic. It should be lots of fun. Last year we had a turn out well over 100 people, great facility, and the sushi and drinks for the after party were fantastic! If you have ever attended a Flash Camp before this is the next level.
More about the application we are building:
Jason Grey is building an product comparison application where the user can add products from Amazon or eBay and compare them. Danny Paterson is going to be adding peer-to-peer collaboration to the application in his session. This will allow two users to shop and compare together. To do peer-to-peer in Flash Player 10 we must use the new Stratus beta from Adobe to get unique ids. These ids need to be registered along with the user’s name in a common place. So the service we need is a backend that can store current user sessions. Enter Wade Arnold’s talk on using ZendAmf for integration with PHP and MySQL.
This will be fun! I am sure there are more details but you will just have to come in order to find them all out! Check out the main site for more infomation and sign up right now!
Make sure that you go update your zendamf library to the latest 1.7.8 mini release. Lots of bug fixes and changes that will be required for the next mini release .
Lot’s of bug fixes have been added to the next release of the zend framework. I have listed all of the jira tickets below. A lot of these issues have been fixed in the trunk for months but have not made it to a mini release because i didn’t know that I was suppose to merge them! Now I know and this mini release is going to be very significant. Please update when it is released so you can help me find any other issues.
Monday the 30th we should see the 1.7.8 mini release of zend framework.
Robert Taylor an OFG (Original Flash Gangster) and long term industry friend of mine wrote an interesting article on using the Zend Amf serialize to send back variables to Flash and Flex. I can honestly say that I would have NEVER though of using the serialize this way but it frankly is brilliant. What a super slick way to get typed data back into the Flash Player. Check out Serializing Flash Objects over HTTP
Piotr Walczyszyn and Adobe Platform evangelist just released ZendAmfD as an extension to Zend_Amf (it actually extends Zend_Amf_Server class). It allows developers to configure and execute on the server side database queries against model classes that extend Zend_Db_Table_Abstract. It is really exciting for me to see others contributing to the project. Please check it out and maybe this is something that we will add to the Zend Amf trunk?
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