Zend + AMF

Lee Brimelow discusses the official announcement of the addition of AMF support to the Zend Framework in this post. A couple of details that caught my eye…

The AMF implementation in Zend is being done by Wade Arnold who also works on AMFPHP. The development of AMFPHP will continue but the Zend implementation will be officially supported by Adobe.

Adobe is working with Zend with the goal of being able to install the Flex Eclipse plug-in into Zend Studio. Not sure if this will make me start using Eclipse, but one of my personal hang-ups is that I needed a separate editor for decent PHP editing.

Update: The former title of this post referred to ZendAMF. According to a recent post on Wade Arnold’s blog … “There is no such thing is ZendAMF. I have seen this on some blog posts. There is the Zend Framework with the amf protocol server implementation using the package Zend_Amf and the class Zend_Amf_Server.”

Adobe Open Screen Project

Last night Adobe announced the Open Screen Project initiative.

“The Open Screen Project is working to enable a consistent runtime environment – taking advantage of Adobe® Flash® Player and, in the future, Adobe AIR™ — that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and consumer devices, including phones, mobile internet devices (MIDs), and set top boxes.”

Very cool stuff. Too bad Apple isn’t on the list.

Connecting Flex to Content Debugger

Yesterday my trial of Flex Beta 3 expired, forcing me to finally uninstall/reinstall the Flex 3 final release. A lost my beautiful custom perspective and all those plug-ins I had grown to love… sigh.

The worst of it was that I the reinstall brought the full wrath of the evil “Waiting for Flash Player to connect to debugger” error of doom. I looked around online for anwers — none. The only documented solutions were to try to reinstall Flex and insure I was using a debug version of the player. I was on my own.

How did I solve this issue?! Well I didn’t… sort of.

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