It seems like nothing can bring on a heated debate between developers faster than talking about frameworks. I have used Cairngorm for longer than I would like to admit, and for better and for worse it has served me well. Recently I started working on an AIR application that is based on Swiz. I had heard of Swiz, pretty sure I even wathced a video from a conference where it was demo’d. It sounded interesting at the time but once you are entrenched in one framework (and too busy to find the time to try out something new) it is difficult to entertain the idea of starting to use a new framework in your projects. Fortunately, taking on an existing project based on a framework new to you forces you to quickly get up to speed. In the case of Swiz, it didn’t take long.
There’s a decent getting started guide that steps through the basics of getting up and running with Swiz. Even better though is a five part series by Brian Kotek on using Swiz.
Brian did a great job in covering the basics, providing some good examples and explaining in detail some key features in Swiz and how to use them.
Fortunately I have been able to get a good handle on Swiz in a short period of time. I’m looking forward to working with it in this current project and also in some future projects I have been planning out. Hopefully as time permits I’ll even get a post or two up on how I find it.
Rock on man! Swiz is the shizz, as I like to say. There’s a ton of resources out there if you really want to become a “swiz-master”. I’d love to post them all in this comment, but you’re blog will thing I’m spamming you. However, I will be releasing part 3 of my “Architectural Analysis of the Swiz Framework” very soon, and I plan to provide a full listing of all the resources that have been published since I released part 2 of the series.
Keep up the great work!
-Dan