Archives

Archive for December, 2006

Clearing the FUD on amfphp’s speed versus JSON and XML

( Remoting and Actionscript and PHP and Flash )

I just read Mike Potter’s blog post on his speed comparisons between amfphp, JSON and REST-style vanilla XML, and I’d like to clear some FUD, as I believe it is unfair both to amfphp and JSON (was on vacation at the time it was published). I am sure that Mike had no bad intentions when […]

Amfphp 1.9 beta - Get it now

( News )
  • Update: a second beta is now available here *

Well I’ve been working on the new version of amfphp for about a week now, and it’s ready for a test-drive. I’ve had the feedback I needed from the alpha, and I am fairly convinced this new version works like a charm. You can download it […]

Call to arms: amfphp with Flex Data Services functionality

( Remoting and PHP and Flash )

I recently got amf3 features into amfphp which means it is finally compatible with Flex 2’s RemoteObject tag. Sweet. While I am waiting for feedback on these new features and iron out the issues, I’d like to get started on getting Flex Data Services functionality in amfphp. Flex Data Services, from what I gather of […]

AS3 PNG encoder: faster, better

I’ve modified Tinic Uro’s PNGEnc class to make it a bit faster and get lower file sizes.

The first modification is to the non-transparent encoding algorithm which I have modified to use getPixels instead of getPixel. The reason Tinic was using getPixel is that getPixels returns pixels in the ARGB format and PNGs use RGBA, […]