I am currently reading “CodeIgniter for Rapid PHP Application Development” from David Upton.
If you have a blog and are willing to write a review of a book you could get a free book. Here are more details on how to get a free book.
I will be writing a review on the book as soon as I finish reading it. I also recommend you visit their site and have a look at the collection of books.
After this review I’ve also got PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects. So I’ll be reviewing that too in the following weeks.
October 25th, 2007
Final score was 1 all.
It was a very fast paced game, they were defending quite well and we weren’t connecting. We had a lucky goal almost near the end of the match, and they managed to score on the last second.
Soundtrack of video is: The Offspring. The kids aren’t alright.
Video edition: I added each of our players names, and did a couple of slow-motions and repeats. And played a bit with the Flashback transition.
August 30th, 2007
I started using Flash at version 4, when I was working at W3.com.ar and I remember also having to fiddle with some Flash 3 banners. When Flash 5 came out and you could do some proper coding, it was all done inside the IDE. Then we discovered the include directive and were using Textpad with most of our code.
Then came SEPY and I got hooked straight-away. Just last year I transitioned to FlashDevelop and have been using that since. I convinced my fellow workmates and now we are all using it.
I knew there were other tools put there, but one that I really wanted to try was FDT. Check out there cool site and view the demos they have.
A couple of months back I won a license at Sydney’s Flash User Group (thanks Chris!) and I have started using it for tests. I currently haven’t fully switched yet, because I find FlashDevelop quite fast and very easy to use compared to FDT. Though FDT has on the fly syntax checking. It means I don’t have to press F7 each time before compiling.
Then talking about my PHP development environment. It was trusty old Textpad through-out all these years. Adding different syntax libraries, macros and all kind of clip extensions. But it was never an IDE. It was missing syntax checking and the famous “intellisense”
Now I have started to move towards Eclipse, and I’ve tried PHPEclipse and PDT. I had troubles with PDT but I didn’t have much time on my hands to see why it wasn’t working as expected. I will try to consolidate my both main languages (Flash and PHP) under one IDE.
My next step is to use them both on a production project. Then I will be able to assess if it’s worth switching from FlashDevelop.
It would be great to here what others are using for their own PHP and Flash development.
Please add a comment below.
Some extra resources:
http://www.blog.lessrain.com/?p=381
August 29th, 2007
At DDX, we built the Davenport Underwear website. The design was done by Damien Aistrope.
The whole site was built fairly quick using the flash CMS and it has all the usability you could possibly get for a Flash Website. It’s built using solid OOP architecture, and though we see it more as an RIA (because the way it’s built) it still has to have a “page based” framework.
Features include: Fully Flash website, SEO indexable, Deep linking functionality and Content Managed. There’s also a mini Flash Game (pie throwing) in the fool about section.
Please let me know what you think.
August 26th, 2007
Here’s my video version. Only 2 minutes long with sound track: Wolmother – Joker and the Thief
I added a couple of “cheasy” effects.
August 23rd, 2007
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