What Happened to the AIR CMS?
So a while ago, when I first heard about AIR, I thought it would be
fun to build an AIR based CMS. I had a client come to me with a half
built website that some one built with droopal. The guy had left him a
long email with instructions on how to update his website. The client
had no idea what to do and so someone sent him to me. So I thought...
this is the perfect time to work on the AIR CMS! I realized that most
small business owners need to do very little to their site.
For example, service based businesses will do good just adding
pictures to their website and in this case, testimonials.
pages worth. I used, AS3, Zend PHP to communicate to a database, some PHP for
uploading files.
Also one thing I experimented with was having AIR resize the images,
first creating a Bitmap then exporting and creating a new compressed
file using Adobe's Jpg encoder. Only problems I ran into was encoding
large Bitmaps would lag the app up pretty hardcore... so that was a
debatable function. The client in the end, disappeared off the face of the earth :( (it
happens) but I did get to build something neat! Check out the pictures! -happy coding!
