This week, I had to do some flash work for TFE. As soon as a fired up flash and started programming I realized how lazy you get when programming in eclipse. I mean, auto import, code completion, all kinds of shortcuts… Compared to the flash IDE it’s heaven . Now, I know that there are many IDE’s for flash Actionscript like SePY and FlashDevelop, but none of them really satisfies me like Eclipse does. The only problem with using Eclipse as Actionscript editor is the fact that you cannot build fla files in Flex Builder… or can you? more…

As of 30/04/2008, the Midnightcoders have released a new version of WebOrb for PHP (version 3.0.0). (Thanks David C. Moody for letting me know). And boy, they’ve certainly improved the performance!

In my previous post WebOrb was a factor 4 slower than it’s opponent, AMFPHP. With this new version, the difference is much smaller. I ran the ‘invoke large dataset’ test and the difference was only 40ms (It used to take 6 seconds, it now takes 270ms). So AMFPHP still holds the speed record, but WebOrb is closing in! more…