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I recently took a course in Rich Internet Application development which focused on the snazzy new Adobe Flex 2 (now Flex 3) platform. This was an amazing course because Flex is being hyped up as the next big thing in RIA development because it runs in the highly pervasive Flash Player plugin (booyah silverlight!). The structure for the course was a rigorous 10week development session in which we would conceive, design, and develop a Flex application and integrate it with some type of stateful data storage.

As usual I wanted to develop something useful, and something that would allow me to integrate Flex with a technology that would be used in the real world- so I opted to integrate it with PHP and MYSQL. Even though this part of it wasn’t required, I felt it really made the experience that much more useful.

Check it out: Flex Course Manager

Responsibilities: All design, development, and backend

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  • http://www.devmorgan.com/blog Dave Morgan

    Keep in mind, allowing a client-heavy type of application have direct calls to a database is not going to happen any time soon.

    Since flex runs on the client machine, you wouldn’t want to allow them direct access to your databases. Even more so, most databases only allow connections from localhost, so it would never work out anyway.

    Would be nice to have access- but I doubt for security reasons it’ll ever happen.

  • Dan

    Yeah that does make sense, I guess I was thinking of things from a server-side approach like with PHP.

    It makes sense that a client-based app would not have direct access, still a pain to manage all those calls to and from the service though :)

    I’m hoping the Flex Data Services package eliminates some of those headaches, too bad its $40k!!!

  • http://www.itmilk.com Daehee

    That’s awesome that RIT offers courses like this.

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