[Arp] Arp use cases, case studies, success stories, etc.

[Jed Wood]

Guess I'll reply back to whole list, since that seems to be the  
protocol (?)

On Jan 9, 2006, at 3:55 AM, Aral Balkan wrote:

> *For each project:*

> Project title:

CherokeeLink
Frequency
(answers will be identical for both)

> 1. What type of project was it? (eg. Online/off-line (eg.
> CD-ROM/kiosk)/sometimes-connected)

Online

> 2. Which client-side technologies were you using? (eg. Flash IDE/Flex
> 1.5/MTASC, etc.)

Flash, Xcode, MTASC

> 3. Which server-side technologies were you using? (eg. J2EE,  
> PHP, .Net,
> Python, CF, etc.)

PHP, MySQL

> 4. Which remoting application were you using? (eg. OpenAMF, AMFPHP,  
> CF,
> etc.)

AMFPHP (now starting to use CakeAMfPHP)

> 5. Did your application use a socket connection or Flash
> Communication/Media Server? Which one and how? How easy/difficult  
> was it
> to integrate? Notes/comments?

No

> 6. Did your application use JavaScript communication? (eg. Flash/JS
> integration kit, AFLAX, etc.) How easy/difficult was it to integrate?
> Notes/comments?

No

>
> 7. Were you using any Arp extensions? Which one(s)? Notes/comments?

Jesse's ModelLocater, Peter's eventBubbling, and a caching system  
spliced into the BusinessDelegate that's my own creation.

> 8. Other notes, comments:
>
> *General Questions*
>
> 1. What do you love the most about Arp 2?

Knowing where all my code is, and where new code should go.

> 2. What do you hate the most about Arp 2?

How dang long it took me to figure it all out. I switched mid-project  
thinking I'd save time in the long run, but I think I'm going to have  
to do several more projects to make back that initial time  
investment. Also, setting up a new project- lots of copy/paste/replace

> 3. What is the single most important feature/enhancement you would  
> want
> to see in Arp 3?

Built-in ModelLocator (and more importantly, some agreed-upon  
conventions for handling events to/from the ML), and a system to  
setup new projects more easily (For now I have a pretty decent system  
for Xcode that replaces <PROJECTNAME> tags across all the template  
files)

> 4. At a minimum, Arp 3 aims to support RIA development with the Flash
> IDE, Flex 1.5, Flex 2, AS 2, MTASC, AS 3, J2EE/OpenAMF and PHP/AMFPHP.
> Does this cover your needs? Have we missed anything?

Maybe too much (?) I dunno, depends on how much more complicated or  
drawn-out that makes the release. If keeping it to Flash & AS 2 means  
it'll be out sooner and less complicated, that's my vote.

> 5. Everything else: Other features, enhancements you'd like to see,
> general thoughts, anything that we missed in the questions above...

I'll echo the "keep up the great work!"

Jed