I started a new personal web project, called trafficJam
>> http://trafficjam.trinix.be
It’s going to be a fairly simple web application, in which I can keep track of my time of departure and time of arriving and some extra info like destination, ….
I’m currently at Work in Brussel, Belgium capital, and I spent everday in big traffic-jams.
This obviously annoys me that’s why I want to keep track on how much personal time I lose this way.
To develop this little app, I wanted to use 2 techniques.
I will be using the EXTJS (www.extjs.com) from Jack Slockum. This is a really solid extensive javascript framework complete with nice themes. The uniqueness of this framework is that it forms an layer on different known frameworks which you can choose from. Currently it offers:
An other RIA manner I want to try, is using FLEX for building the web app.
I started with ExtJS and my first experience was that ExtJS is really extensive and fairly complete. But I also pretty heavy to load in a browser (long waiting time) and because it’s so big, it’s difficult to start with it. I also noticed that I will be missing the ease of tweaking little lay-out changes. But I guess this first impression is normal for a new framework and new manner of developing.
I will keep you updated with my findings and development of trafficJam.
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