If you are speaking at, attending, sponsoring or exhibiting at ZendCon this year I invite you to download and install the ZendCon Badge WordPress plugin. It’s fun and super easy. Download the plugin from here (it will be available in the plugin repository as soon as the kind WordPress folks give me SVN access) Upload [...]
Deployment for PHP applications is one of those things where it’s tough to get a general reading on where things are. On one hand you have people who have deployment mechanisms that seemingly automate the rotation of the earth and on the other hand you have people who jump up and down on their code trying [...]
Last week I wrote up a few blog posts (here, here and here) about creating a Flex based dashboard that utilized message queues to pass data. It was a really fun example to write but there was one thing I did not get to implement. What I wanted to do was use the sales notification [...]
In yesterday’s post I talked a little bit about some of the details on how I used messaging to connect a front end on demand request to a back end scheduled data processing mechanism. In this post we’re going to talk about how to send data from a web page to a running Flex application [...]
Yesterday (June 1st) I wrote a blog post on how to set up an example application that I did for a webinar with Adobe and building a Flash based dashboard application (I would suggest watching it) connecting into to PHP. Today I would like to provide some of the details of how I did all [...]
Today (June 1st) I got to give an online talk with Adobe on how to create a stunning analytics dashboard with Flex and PHP (recording here). I’m a horrible graphic designer and so I don’t know how stunning it was, but from the technical perspective we covered a lot and it was a lot of [...]