Development tidbits, struggles, revelations, and still some Flash

Has anyone been able to get AMFEXT for OSX?   I read a few posts regarding AMFEXT on OSX, but it didnt help out too much.

AMFEXT is a PHP extension written in C that implements encoding and decoding of AMF and AMF3 messages for the PHP language. It has been based on some of the experience gained with AMFPP, a native code for encoding and decoding C. The native encoding and decoding is extremely fast and memory efficient respect existing PHP implementation, and the flexibility has been provided using callbacks to the PHP code.

I just happened to swing by the Dx3 conference page and saw this:

Due to unforseen circumstances, D×3 has been cancelled.

For further inquiries, please contact: registration@dx3conference.com

Wow! I had just gotten approval at work to attend this conference too. Maybe we’ll find out more in the next few days. I hope they re-schedule because the conference looked awesome and had all the right people and topics that mattered to me.

When AMFPHP 1.0 was released, I used it to create a simple Flash calendar for my blog. In the last two weeks, I’ve had two people email me about it. So I’ve decided to produce a little tutorial on it this week. Stay tuned.

I really enjoy using AMFPHP. I don’t use it a lot because that isn’t where my bread-n-butter is, but damn.. its so fun and easy to use.

I was chatting with a friend the other day about 3rd party Flash commands and he never even knew they existed. This led to a discussion of FireFox extensions that I can’t live without. I have quite a collection of favorites that I love to install, so I thought I would list them here for my benefit (for later retrieval), his benefit, and/or anyone elses.

Please feel free to add your own favorites (and links please).

FlashMX2004 Commands

Duplicate Layer (LINK)
Delete Empty Keyframes (LINK)
Symbol Swapper (LINK)
Pixel Tools (LINK)
Publish All (LINK)
Teknision Commands (LINK ) >> Includes: change case, clean up library, convert and distribute (!!), find in library, lock all masks, swap symbol across layer
JSAPI Snippets Panel (LINK)
SceneToMovie.jsfl ( LINK)
Invisible Button Tool (LINK)

Patrick Mineault has a good list to various other JSFL commands and tools on his site. I refer to his page a lot.
http://www.5etdemi.com/blog/

FireFox Extensions:

Web Developer (LINK)
Ad Block (LINK)
IE View (LINK)
OpenBook (LINK)
User Agent Switcher (LINK)
Disable Targets for Downloads (LINK)