Posts made in July, 2008

Adobe to contribute AMF support to Zend Framework

Posted by Jon on Jul 30, 2008 in Development, Flex, PHP | 0 comments

Thanks to the tweet from Andi Gutmans and the blog post for the huge heads up on this one.

Adobe has made a proposal for an AMF (Action Message Format) component in Zend Framework. This ZF component will allow for client-side applications built with Flex and Adobe AIR to communicate easily and efficiently with PHP on the server-side. Leading the design of the component for Adobe is Wade Arnold. Wade already has a track record of bringing the Adobe RIA technologies to PHP as a result of all of his work on AMFPHP.

This is going to make things in my life much easier as I’m becoming a Flex developer (not by choice) at work. Don’t get me wrong, I am having fun learning Flex but having to work with WebOrb is just a pain in the ass when there are such better tools out there.

Zend_Amf is being targeted for the 1.7 release as the release cycle for 1.6 is under way.

I’m going to watch this one closely.

PushUpTheWeb.com: Browser detection and Upgrading

Posted by Jon on Jul 29, 2008 in Development, General | 0 comments

Nick Stakenburg is beating the drum of getting users to upgrade their browsers, and has created PushUpTheWeb.com.

Pushup is an effort to push the web forward by helping users update their outdated browsers. Give your users a better web experience today by installing Pushup on your domain!

By putting the script up, users will have their browser checked out, and if there is a new version it will let them know in the right hand top corner.

You can configure it to use reminders, and style it how you wish. Friends don’t let friends run old browsers!

iPhone WordPress Application

Posted by Jon on Jul 22, 2008 in General | 0 comments

I’m writing this blog post using the new WordPress app in the iPhone. This just mrks me think the iPhone is one of the most useful gadgets I own. Now let’s just hope for some cut and paste action soon.