Nov 11, 2007
Extraordinary Careers
Extraordinary Careers is the web site of Laing O'Rourke, a privately-owned development, construction and specialist company based in Australia.
The web site makes use of CakeSWXPHP and uses SWX in a novel manner, as explained by the site's developer, Adam Royle:
The site doesn't access the gateway directly - the swf is generated when the site is published from the admin section, and uploaded to the site with the rest of the site files.
What I initially thought would be a big task - getting all of the data into flash in a way that was fast and easy to work with - was a breeze, all thanks to swx! All of the site data (content, image paths, video paths, etc) is loaded upon startup and is less than 25kb - much less than the json equivalent I also tried!
So swx isn't just great for truly "dynamic" situations - it's even useful for generating static data.
