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Zend_Amf in Zend Framework 1.7.0 Preview Release

October 16th, 2008 shaun View Comments

Sweet. The Zend_Amf component is out now in the Zend Framework 1.7.0 Preview Release. Thanks Wade!

A useful looking resource here: http://diamondtearz.org/blog/zend_amf-collection/

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Zend_Amf Oh yes!

July 31st, 2008 shaun View Comments

This is really great news: Adobe to contribute AMF support to Zend Framework.

You can check out the official proposal here:
http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Amf

In fact, it solves two of my three big choices from this post.

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Too Many Options

July 25th, 2008 shaun View Comments

So, I have a fairly large-scale flash application that I want to build.

In fact, it’s the whole reason I’ve been learning all this web application development stuff. It’s the reason I stopped freelancing as BoyBlack over a year ago, and took on a fulltime job at Hello Computer – so that I could get paid to implement all the research I’ve been doing, in a realistic fashion, one manageable project at a time. It’s also the reason why I recently negotiated to reduce my working hours to two days a week – so that I can start building the next version of my application.

But now that I’m ready to sit down and build this thing I’m faced with a couple of tough decisions:

  • IDE: FDT or Flex Builder?
  • PHP Framework: CodeIgniter or Zend Framework?
  • Remoting: AMFPHP or WebOrb? Or just go JSON

At least I’m settled on using PureMVC as my Flash Framework (whether I decide to use Flex or not is another matter entirely!), and jQuery as my JavaScript library. Read more…