[LRUG] Rocktober

[Martin Sadler]

If we are talking UI stuff it would be great to see a head to head
of Flex vs Low Pro vs X


On 27 Sep 2007, at 11:58, Tim Cowlishaw wrote:

> Would anyone be interested in seeing an interesting, OO approach to  
> widget-based UI development in Rails? I can try and cajole one of  
> my colleagues into showing something off if so...
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> Tim
>
>
> On 9/27/07, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, Alex MacCaw knows a thing or two about Flex+Rails and I'm going  
> to schmooze him into showing it off for us at some future meeting,  
> (that's a pre-warning for you Alex ;)
>
> Is there anything else people want to hear about?  Or even ideas  
> for alternative style evenings that people might want to attend  
> (lightning talks, no-agenda reject conf style, hack-days, etc...).
>
> I know a bunch of LRUGers were at Railsconf, and a few even  
> presented, might one or two of you want to re-run your talks for  
> us?  Or the guys who have been representing LRUG at extra- 
> curricular meetings recently, maybe you'd  like to re-run your  
> talks for us.
>
> The main point of this mail tho is that I'm struggling to cajole  
> folk into doing something for the October meeting.  As I said,  
> there's Ian lined up with resources_controller, but that still  
> leaves a hole in the evening.  As Tom Armitage said in his talk  
> last month, it's not hard to play with something over a weekend or  
> two and present your findings as a 'hey, this was neat, what do you  
> think?' style talk.
>
> Muz
>
>
> On 19/09/2007, Paul Ardeleanu < pardel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19/09/2007, Daniel Tenner <daniel.ruby at tenner.org> wrote:
> > I for one would be very keen on hearing if anyone's used Flex and
> > Rails together, and what sort of hurdles they hit on the way, what
> > appeared simple at first but turned out to be THE headache of the
> > month....
>
> The Simeon Bateman presentation (today) was pretty good although kind
> of an introduction in Flex + Rails but, unfortunately, the Monday
> tutorial sucked... big time.
>
> > Superficially, they seem (to me) like a match made in heaven - Rails
> > takes care of all the server stuff really nicely and Flex has a full
> > UI toolkit that talks to the backend through whatever means you  
> want.
> > But as usual, I'm sure the devil is in the details.
>
> Simeon seems to prefer RubyAMB over WebORB.
>
> Paul
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