Adobe Flex: Open Source

Flex is an XML based langauge (MXML) that provides an interface to Flash on the presentation tier in the development environment. I have come to terms with Flex being Flash for web coders. It would replace a scripting language like php or jsp.

Sample app: Google Finance

Well it is now open source, providing an sdk and dev environment. I know that adobe has released a plugin for the eclipse ide, JSEcplipse, primarily for javascript coding (supports all the big ajax frameworks) but also includes support for flex constructs.

Should prove to be an interesting summer of coding..

html back button: Simple Enough

For some reason its come up on a few projects lately that we need a back button built into the web applications navigation interface. Simple enough..

<input value="Back" name="ClickBack" 
onclick="(history.back())" type="button">

result:

CakePHP

I have been looking to start back into PHP for some projects coming up here in the not so distant future. I would like to find a very comprehensive php framework to base off of but dynamic enough to expand on... Possibly incorporate small benefits from other projects into.. Anyways, I've discovered CakePHP. We'll see how this goes..

I would also like to explore zendframework a little more, as it is supposed to be the best xml framework for api integration with all the big boys out there. (google, yahoo, etc..)