Between Total Training's - "Adobe Flex 2 Rich Internet Applications" video training and Adobe Press "Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source", it'll be a snap for you.
I've had the video training for several months now, but it was hard as hell to remember where that "one tidbit" of information you need was, so that's why I bought the book. The book is a great companion since it can go into more detail about things and you can read the section over again if it didn't sink in the first time. On 2/1/07, Loathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > great, now teach me :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 4:54 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Flex is da bomb! > > > 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" > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:226472 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
