I'm still new to developing on Flex but I have to say the more I play the more I love it! Recently I decided to move from "playing" to building a real app.
OK no I'm not going to share my "app" at least not yet but I did want to share a nice cool little feature of Flex I found to be such a life saver it's not funny. I've spent lots of time trying out various different development languages and I often always end up reverting back to PHP, HTML and JavaScript not sure why that is but it just happens. Well with Flex and Actionscript I feel very comfortable and that comfort level is increasing day by day as I use it more.
Internally at my work I've created a few applications like this one, and since I am terrible at design I've always been on the lookout for a nice IDE that does the design/ui for me but gives me serious control of the coding. Flex Builder which I have in beta for the next 80 days or so gives me that, anyone at Adobe want to sport me a license? :-)
Anyway here I am sitting here and thinking how nice would it be to build a cool looking UI for some of the tasks that are associated with some of these internal apps I have? Well Flex Builder has a nice option about "create application from DB" which sounded just about right and it let's you create things with a PHP backend which was even nicer!
We are talking a basic application connected to my database in a matter of minutes with all the code available for me to begin enhancing and doing more of what I need! You gotta love it!
Even better if for some reason Zend was to throw me a license of Zend Studio (review purposes of course) then I'd have live PHP debugging - or at least this is what I've been told that it can be setup - anyone had success there?
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Not personally but one of my colleagues has done exactly that with Neon. Developing on windows and debugging on the server which in this case was a CentOS VMware image.
Neon?
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