Hmm, the frustrations of me using Flash Remoting for the first time have been huge. You could already read the frustration of having to set the whole backbone up. While being busy building the guestbook up, something broke inside my tiny little brain.

I asked myself the question…. ‘Why did i decide to use Flash Remoting again?’. The funny thing is, I couldn’t remember.

So now i am so fed up with it, that I am going to try it the more conventional way (read: through xml data transfers).

I got tired of having to learn a whole new binch of syntax related issues, timing tweaking, dual script maintanance, etc. that I just don’t see the point in it anymore.

The AMF protocol is probably great for lots of people, but for the time being not for me. When i think about how my current setup could be implemented in a real world application, all kinds of compatability issues started spooking through my head….. And what is the point of first programming functions in PHP and then having to program them all again in AS.

It might just be one of those things everybody needs to go through, survive, then retry and suddenly understand the bigger picture, but for now… back to good old XML. I’ll check back…. hopefully!

I’m starting to get close to finishing the guestbook i have planned for myFirstRIA. I’m starting to get the hang of the ‘eventdispatching’ and i’m starting to like it too!

Wanna read more stuff from the guru’s? Check out this article and this article.

Colin Moock is a well known author of Flash related books. His upcoming book ‘essential actionscript 2.0′ should give some great insights of how to use AS2.0 in your projects. I am hoping it will also shed some lights in the advantages programming in an OOP language gives.

Colin has kindly opened up one of the chapters of his new book to the public. Macromedia has offered it on their website for your reading pleasures. Make sure you read it right, there are some new things in there for the non-guru’s among us (like me!).

I mirrored (147kB) the pdf for the people who might find it usefull (and to collect all the information i possibly can get my greedy little hands on!, it’s time I start to understand this whole OOP mumbo jumbo, magic…)

I also mailed Colin to ask him if he could make a preview copy available for me. If he does, i will read the book and post how usefull it was for me in my hunt for the ‘knowledge of AS 2.0′ ;)