Almost a Space Game (A2SG) » Flex360 http://blog.almostaspacegame.com The Trials, Tribulation, and Joys of Creating a Web-Based Space Trading Game Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:40:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en 360|Flex - RubyAMF http://blog.almostaspacegame.com/2008/08/19/360flex-rubyamf.html http://blog.almostaspacegame.com/2008/08/19/360flex-rubyamf.html#comments Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:40:37 +0000 totdt http://blog.almostaspacegame.com/2008/08/19/360flex-rubyamf.html I’m currently sitting in Tony Hillerson’s presentation at 360 Flex: Flex and Rails with RubyAMF. It’s been a pretty Rails-rudimentary session, but there have been several useful tidbits (the Awesome Nested Set plugin looks cool, for example).

I’m glad to see promotion of Rails/Ruby as a backend for Flex apps, ’cause that’s just a no-brainer as far as I’m concerned. For some reason it doesn’t seem so obvious to the Java-background-heavy Flex community. I guess some people just really love writing verbose, mind-fucking repetitive code. Power to ‘em, I’d rather GSD.

Tony is the first presenter I’ve ever sheen whose shirt literally matches his non-plain preso slide background. That’s a level of style/detail that I think is badass (seriously).

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