Rich Internet applications (RIAs) are everywhere. With Web businesses like Google and Yahoo! and brick and mortar companies like Harley Davidson and Sherwin Williams embracing RIAs for their online presence, the media buzz is giving way to the reality of a better Internet.

At our last BostonPHP meeting, Kevin Hoyt - a technical evangelist with Adobe - gave an excellent introduction to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR, with a walk through how to create a Flex application powered by PHP and the Zend Framework. Working with Zend Studio for Eclipse, and Flex Builder (an Eclipse plugin), Kevin demonstrated how to build, debug and deploy applications built with Adobe Flex, and how to have these same applications run on the desktop using the Adobe AIR runtime.

If you weren't able to get to the meeting, you can listen here: