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-Cameron
On 1/30/07, Zaphod Beeblebrox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been working on this project for about 1.5 months now and it being my
> first real Flex app, it was going very slow. It was painful. "What do you
> mean I can't traverse a document as easy as javascript!", "I do {insert
> method} in javascript all of the time, why can't I do it here?", and such.
> Well, crunch time is quickly approaching and it wasn't looking good.
>
> After about 10 hours of work yesterday, suddenly the clouds parted, the
> birds started singing and I freakin' got Flex....really really got
> Flex....really started to understand it. I realized I had too much junk in
> too large of files. I realized that I was tightly coupling the components
> together instead of loosely. I realized the power of "dispatchEvent". I
> realized how discreet components could be so handy.
>
> Now, here's the kicker....it's unbelievably easy when paired with Rails. I
> am smoking through this project like never before. This project involves
> pulling down xml from a webservice, parsing with xslt to get only the nodes
> required, displaying it in a form so that users can add nodes at different
> levels, saving the moded xml until the user is ready to post it back to the
> webservice. It's also got some other neat functionality, but this is the
> heart of it.
>
> I had tried to do this using AJAX, but kept running into problems trying
> insert elements in an xml doc. Moz wanted to captilize everything, IE
> didn't even want to run the xpath statements needed to figure out where to
> insert the node. CF's xml handling is okay, but compared to e4x, it pales
> quickly.
>
> I can definitely see Flex and one of my biggest hammers in my toolbox.
>
> zB
>
> --
> "You reached for the secret too soon,
> You tried for the moon,
> Shine on you crazy diamond"
>
>
>
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