Back from conferences and vacation in Egypt, powered up with new energy and new knowledge... Just reading a new book I bought: "Flex on Rails", WOW! What an eye-opener! Reminds me of when I discovered Ruby and Rails, yet another game changer.
The Flex demos I watched at the Devoxx conference made a huge impression, which led me to buy the book. Seems like HTML/Javascript is just such a cumbersome way to develop web applications, even with fancy Ajax components and frameworks such as ExtJS - much like developing apps in Java 1.2 compared to Rails. The HTML, Javascript, erb style has hardly changed since the mid 90s and is just so complex with all these layers. I would much rather develop my front end in something like Flex, which allows for defining the views using widgets in XML, with native data binding, fast and efficient data transfer protocols etc. So I think Hobo (and DRYML) really should be much more agnostic as to the choice of front end/view/client of the client app. There is also all the mobile devices, fx Android, iPhone etc. coming on to the scene. The "old" uni-polar world of HTML in web browser which Rails was born in is rapidly changing into a multi-polar world... hmm, reminds me of something on a completely different level. Check out the RestfulX framework at http://restfulx.github.com/. Maybe we could join forces here. I really think DRYML should be just be a template language and not so tightly bound to Rails/Hobo, but just have some nice add-on options for such integrations. I guess DRYML could even generate some nice Flex views to use as a base and Hobo could be extended to perhaps enhance the XML data (by calling a REST service) consumed by a Flex app to include permission info as to which actions should be permitted in the Flex app, and then have some conventions for how to apply this info on the controls. http://blog.flexonrails.com/ http://www.flex888.com/358/10-flex-and-ruby-on-rails-integration-examples.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en.
