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[French] Notes de la conférence PHPQuebec

( News and PHP )

Voici les liens importants concernant Remoting:

AMFPHP 1.0 beta AMFPHP Tutoriels sephiroth.it Tutoriels flash-db.com Composantes Remoting Macromedia Flashcoders mailing list

Remoting bottleneck: only two connections can be opened at a time

After writing yesterday’s post on batch calls I realized this might explain the weird issue that people have if a method is called that has a sleep() in it (simulating a very slow method). It seems that under certain conditions, if you call a remote method with a long sleep time, it will also slow […]

Batch calls with Remoting

This one really took me by surprise: if you call several methods through Remoting on the same frame, remoting will group all of the calls in a single Remoting call. That means, in particular, that if you call a remote method 100 times in the same frame, the remote server is called only once and […]

AMFPHP is all grown up - need some unit tests

( News and Remoting and PHP )

I think we’re about ready to alpha AMFPHP 1.0. If someone would volunteer to write unit tests to catch the easy errors before rolling out the beta that would be fantastic. Just leave a message in the comments if you can. The tests could consist of a Flash file and a ser4vice class, and would […]

[OT] Salvaging text from seriously unuseable EPS file

( Misc. )

I’ve received an eps file from a client. There was a lot of text in it and I needed to copy and paste this text to create an HTML version of the page in addition to the Flash version. The trouble was that the text was made up of small ‘islands’ of about 8 characters […]