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ActionScript Mobile Project Splash Screen

The question was posed on Twitter : “How can you add a Splash Screen to an ActionScript only AIR for Android project using FlashBuilder”. Flex mobile projects have the luxury of defining ‘splashScreenImage’, ‘splashScreenMinimumDisplayTime’ & ‘splashScreenScaleMode’ properties within the default application mxml header, pure ActionScript projects do not.
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ZendAMF, beyond the bootstrap. Part2

In the last post we set up the groundwork for our application. Now let’s start building our Zend MVC application and hook it up to a MySQL database.

Database

Use the SQL code below to create the F1 Drivers table we’ll be accessing later on.

CREATE TABLE `f1_drivers` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`name` varchar(250) default NULL,
`team` varchar(250) default NULL,
`points` float default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=8 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
INSERT INTO `f1_drivers` (`id`,`name`,`team`,`points`)
VALUES
(1,'Jenson Button','Brawn-Mercedes',21),
(2,'Rubens Barrichello','Brawn-Mercedes',15),
(3,'Jarno Trulli','Toyota',8.5),
(4,'Timo Glock','Toyota',10),
(5,'Nick Heidfeld','BMW Sauber',4),
(6,'Mark Webber','RBR-Renault',9.5),
(7,'Sebastian Vettel','RBR-Renault',10);

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