Starting to get a bit frustrated by the effort it is costing me to make the backbone work for my first RIA. The coldfusion setup wouldn’t work. So that one i could skip instantly. The .NET framework might be working fin with the example of JasonM Perry but ffs. It might just as well take me 5 other people to get the whole .NET stuff ready to rumble.

So the hell with all those handy dandy yadda yadda programming mess. I am going back to my good ol’ PHP days :). SInce the AMF protocol used by Flash Remoting (expensive expensive ;) ) is open source (kind of) it is also being ported to PHP in an open source solution called AMFPHP.

I installed PHP together with it’s new installer flawlessly on my NT server. ANd even better….it is LIGHTNING FAST! woohoo! go PHP ;)

the AMFPHP package seems rather complicated, but a tutorial of Sephiroth about setting up AMFPHP, made it a breeze.

I’ll keep you posted ;) btw. The current example in the sandbox is still using the .NET remoting…which i killed….so it not working makes sence.

A great introductory article about using flash remoting with .net has been written by a guy named “Jason Michael Perry:http://www.jasonmperry.com . It describes a tutorial for writing your first .NET RIA. The article has been used by MM Devnet and can be found here.

I tried installing the development edition of Macromedia Coldfusion MX(6.1) , but I just couldn’t get it working on my Windows 2000 server edition. It seems Macromedia decided to use an open source installer which just couldn’t get the job done…..two thumbs down for MM in that corner. The installer kept asking me for an installation directory after in which it unpacked the setup but still kept asking for an installation directory. So i decided to trash Coldfusion. I will wait until they have their stuff ready for use and check back on it then.

In the mean time, i still need a backbone for my RIA. Since Microsoft.NET technology is supported by MM through Flash Remoting for .NET i thought i might try that :). It installed without a problem. woohoo! ;).

To make Flash MX 2004 support the remoting procedures and funtions etc, you will need the components provided free by MM. You can get them here.

When i figure out how this new backbone works, I’ll let you know ;)