The closest I've come to Cairngorm is a drive through the national forest
that bears that name.
On 1/30/07, Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Have you discovered Cairngorm yet?
>
> -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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