From MXNA this morning I stumbled across this very cool Flash blog.
Tim Wilson, a young talented Flash developer from Austrailia, has done an excellent job of integreting a Word Press powered blog with Flash. He has Flash make a SQL request from a database via PHP and then post the results as blog entries. Flash also makes separate requests from the database for individual posts.
There are some really cool web sites out there using Flash to create a better user experience.RIApedia, a Rich Internet Application blog by Mike Potter of Adobe developer relations noted yesterday.
Nike offers a better user experience. And because of the attention to design it leads to a higher check out statistics. More people buy more shoes or whatever.
Flex 2 offers developers that same capability. All applications (in this case web pages) run inside of the Flash 9 Player
One product which offers easy, out-of-the-box, Flex development is ZoomFlex by Straker. Click here to see an example of its storefront. They offer drag and drop capability which is a great plus and offers easier customer use.
I just read a great summary of upcoming Flex and ActionScript 3.0 books on Leif Well’s RIA blog.
Notice that Joey Lott is the author of 3 of the books! Mr. Wells also mentions the Colin Moock Essential ActionScript 3.0: Rough Cuts Version, I mentioned earlier. The full version of that book is not due in print until June 2007.
Anyone interested in playing around with Adobe’s Flex without going through the process of downloading the SDK should check this out.
Ben Forta, a ColdFusion and Flex guru, posted the Flexifier which allows anyone the opportunity to try it online.
It complies MXML or ActionScript 3 code. You can start with drop down code or write your own.
Are you a designer interested in working with Flex? (Hey, me too.)
For those of you interested in taking your Photoshop files I just read about an in-depth tutorial from Jesse Warden.
Jesse is an excellent Flash/Flex consultant working for Universal Mind.
If aren’t familiar with his blog, I recommend it as daily reading.
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