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This is the blog of Jesse Warden, a Rich Internet Application Architect. He specializes in using Flex and Flash to create Rich Internet Applications.

Archive for the 'Rails' Category

Rails is Ghetto

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Rails is Ghetto: Zed, a developer, rants on his way out of the Ruby on Rails community. If you can navigate through the vitrol, there are some great 1 liners in there about software development & consulting. Not work safe.
Via SixSigns.

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E4X Doesn’t Suck

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

I’ve spoken on past occasions about how un-excited I am about E4X (ECMAScript for XML) with regards to ActionScript 3. Macromedia (now Adobe) made a strong push for XML for 3 player versions. Flash Player 5 had both a built-in XML parser as well as the XMLSocket connection. Flash Player 6 greatly […]

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I got Flash to talk to Rails

Friday, May 12th, 2006

I went through this tutorial, and replaced all the Flex stuff with 56 lines of ActionScript in Flash 8. Getting XML into Flash is the Flash Developer’s tried, true, and trusted way of getting dynamic data. Took me 30 minutes in total: 30 seconds to do the rails setup, 20 minutes to install/uninstall/reinstall […]

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Can’t sleep (as usual) so figured I’d write up my first impressions of Ruby and Rails after reading the first 8 chapters of Agile Web Development with Rails Sunday afternoon. Let me precursor this with I’ve only read 8 chapters in 1 book in a 7 hour period over 2 days. Anything […]

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