my flex test and some thoughts on php

Adobe Flex

i've successfully tested an application i built with Adobe Flex here and it confirms my understanding of the Flex application development process. (i handcoded the ActionScript and MXML because it helps me to understand what's going on a lot better than if i were to rely on my trial version of FlexBuilder!)

my next steps are:

1. learn how to code in PHP/MySQL in order to build a search component
2. learn how to connect my PHP/MySQL scripts to a Flex front-end

initially, i wanted to build something entirely with Flex, but since i've gained a better understanding of it in the past 2 weeks, i think i feel comfortable enough to wrap my head around PHP too...

PHP

having built a some relatively simple web applications with ColdFusion, my first reaction to PHP was of the "WTF?" variety. ColdFusion's tags aren't much of a stretch from HTML, and therefore, are less intimidating to me than PHP code, which by comparison, is unintuitive and far from "human readable".

thankfully, PHP is a part of DMT, so this is a great opportunity for me to learn it.