Lately I've been working on a project, where I'm using Umbraco
as a template engine for an application. It's the follow-up version
of the application I will be demoing on the Umbraco 5th anniversary meetup in Stockholm.
So far everything is going according to plan, and today I managed
to output my first compiled Flash SWF-file. It's a combination of
custom ActionScript, MTASC and SWFMILL. But it goes to show that
Umbraco can be used for pretty much anything.
The application has evolved from a fairly straight forward
Umbraco site, with some heavy use of jQuery and XSLT, into a very
powerful tool, using Flash/Flex Remoting through FluorineFx, a
Provider pattern for easy customization of generated output. It
used the beta of Umbraco 4.1, and relies heavily on LINQ 2 Umbraco
for fetching data, since the Flex Remoting calls are made outside
of Umbraco's context.
I would really love to showcase it here, but I have to check
with the code owners (my client) first. If I don't get permission
to showcase some source, I'll try to get permission to talk about
the general approach. Or you can hire me to get full advantage of
my knowledge :)
Anyway, I'll be posting snippets from my slides after February
16th, stay tuned.