ive been learning flex on lynda.com for about 2 weeks now :) lovin it.
still lost, but learning On 2/1/07, Zaphod Beeblebrox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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:226478 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
