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hi Ben,

>  We have a job coming up that will require a very simple web admin. It
>  will then interface with a Flash screensaver.
>
>  Does anyone have any recommendations for the server technology? I
>  know Django is a rapid way to build administration, but are there any
>  Django developers out there? Might PHP be better from that point of
>  view? The server code may also need to retrieve data from web
>  services, and will expose everything via SOAP.
>
>  On the client-side, Flash needs to read the XML and put the data into
>  some nice motion graphics, tickers and that sort of thing. It also
>  needs to be prepared as a screensaver which can regularly poll the
>  server for updates, tolerate a loss of connection and possibly cache
>  the data on the local machine.
>
>  Does anyone have any advice or recommendations? Secondly, would
>  anyone be interested in working with us on these projects?

I did this for a campaign for Save the children last week, brief
details of which are on my site www.jben.net .

I used Cakephp for the back end and had a simple url that flash loads
in the data from, which in this instance was accessed by LoadVars in
flash, as we only needed a single ticker per campaign, but could just
as easily had gone the xml route. You can then turn the SWF into a
screensaver via a standalone app.

cheers,

jon


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