It’s about time to take another look at flash. While alpha geeks at the last O’Reilly ETCon threw around the buzzword “Rich Internet Applications” which are basically database driven flash apps, the problem was that the backend was all proprietary Macromedia stuff. Now amfphp provides an open source alternative for flash remoting. We could do some hella cool stuff with this. Bob’s mapping interface could become a reality!

Data Visualization with PHP, Flash, and AMFPHP precis from upcoming ETCon.