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Garth Braithwaite currently works as an Interactive Engineer for a small airline in Las Vegas, NV and hosts InsideRIA's weekly podcast RIA Radio. Garth has a background in Education and Graphic Design.

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Thought-provoking Posts from this week

By Amy Blankenship
August 7, 2010

Ever since I've started my new gig, I've found I have less time to keep up with the latest happenings in the business. So when I do take the time to read an article, it is usually because it...

PHP as a data source for Flex applications

By Robert Bak
June 28, 2010

A whole lot of people seem to be moving from web page development to building RIAs these days. But while the emergence of the new client side technologies is easy to notice, with names like Flex, Silverlight or JavaFX appearing more and more often in the context of web development, the move to RIAs also affects the server side coders.

PHP as a data source for Flex applications

By Robert Bak
June 28, 2010

A whole lot of people seem to be moving from web page development to building RIA-s these days. But while the emergence of the new client side technologies is easy to notice, with names like Flex, Silverlight or JavaFX appearing...

Four short links: 21 June 2010

By Nat Torkington
June 21, 2010

Law of Success 2.0 -- a blog of interviews with famous and/or interesting people, from Brad Feld to Uri Geller. Pioneer One -- crowdsourced funding for TV show, perhaps a hint of the future. Pilot shot for $6,000 which was raised through KickStarter. Distributed via BitTorrent. DrasticTools -- PHP/MySQL visualisation tools, including TreeMap, tag cloud, hierarchical bar chart, and...

Flex 4 / PHP Data-Centric Photo Transfers

By Pete Mackie
June 1, 2010

Have you ever-wondered why you mostly see Flex client example code where the photo display galleries are rendered using the ActionScript 3 (AS 3) Loader.load (request:URLRequest, context:LoaderContext=null) class.method? There’s another way to render photos in a Flex client gallery using the AS 3 Loader.loadBytes(bytes:ByteArray, context:LoaderContext=null) that you see used to a lesser degree. Why is this? There are a couple of valid reasons. First, using a URL, whether it is photos included with the Flex client package or remotely from a Web server, making a simple HTTP calls to load the photo is a snap. Second, photo files are stored as bytes of data and not a convenient AS 3 ByteArray data type.

Flex 4 / PHP Data-Centric Solutions

By Pete Mackie
May 25, 2010

Flash Builder provides server-side remoting technology supporting ASP.Net, J2EE, HTTP/REST and SOAP Web services, PHP, BlazeDS, ColdFusion, and LiveCycle Data Services for streaming data to and from a Flex 4 client. This article exclusively covers the PHP server-side remoting technology principally with Zend's PHP ZendFramework web application server. New RIA client and PHP sever development opportunities are emerging using the newly released Flash Builder 4 (Flex 4) IDE linked the recent additions to the Zend Framework PHP Web application server for messaging via Adobe Message Format 3 (AMF 3) serial data streams.

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