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

[Aral Balkan]

Hi Jed,

>Guess I'll reply back to whole list, since that seems to be the  
>protocol (?)
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Yep -- thanks. It should be good for everyone to see what people are 
using it for and the issues they're running into, etc.

>>7. Were you using any Arp extensions? Which one(s)? Notes/comments?
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>Jesse's ModelLocater, Peter's eventBubbling, and a caching system  
>spliced into the BusinessDelegate that's my own creation.
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Thanks!

Your custom caching system sounds interesting. Would you mind giving us 
more info about it?

>Also, setting up a new project- lots of copy/paste/replace
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This is one of the main areas that will be addressed in Arp 3 as it is 
one of my pet hates too. Setting up a new project will be a one-click 
process.

>Built-in ModelLocator (and more importantly, some agreed-upon  
>conventions for handling events to/from the ML),
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This is coming -- based on my/Christophe's work in this area.

> 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)
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This too is coming but it would be good to get feedback from you with 
regards to workflow with Xcode (I don't use it myself.) If anything 
breaks horribly for you (in terms of workflow) -- let me know earlier 
rather than later! You'll have access to the code as soon as its in the 
SVN as we develop so you should be able to start testing pretty much 
from Day 1 :)

>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.
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Understood. We will, of course, be following an iterative development 
cycle and the initial focus will be on AS 2, Flash and Flex 1.5.

Thanks so much -- it's great to have this feedback coming in.

Take care,
Aral