Posts about ‘Flex and Air’

Posted: 3rd December 2008
Tags: as3, Flex and Air, Mate, RIA
Posted in Flex and Air
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I just wanted to share with you a great framework I have been using recently called Mate (pronounced ma-tay).

Developed by the guys at ASFusion Mate is a great framework that features MXML declared event handling, dependency injection and best of all it is really easy to use and implement (It even has a way of reusing your existing Cairngorm commands. Additionally in the next version there will be an infrastructure for mocking out your services and really provides a clean architecture for Flex apps.

The framework is provided as a .swc file you can drop straight into your /libs folder and supports both Flex 2 and Flex 3. The only downside to the framework is the documentation does not reflect the latest .swc and is a little light in places, however the forums are excellent and very active and there is a good selection of examples.

I will be blogging about this in more details soon, but wanted to share my initial thoughts and urge you to look at this framework as it is really worth it.

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Posted: 20th November 2008
Tags: Adobe Air, iPhone, sqlite 3
Posted in Flex and Air, Objective-C and Cocoa, Python Django, Ruby on Rails
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iPhone and Adobe Air developers (as well as any others that use SQLite 3) Menial has just released an excellent little app for creating, managing and running queries against SQLite 3 databases called Bases.

The application is simple to use, very user friendly and has worked well from the testing I have done. It costs just £10 and there is a free trial available so you can try before you buy.

Find out more and download here

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Posted: 20th October 2008
Tags: ActionScript, AIR, Flex and Air
Posted in Flex and Air
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A quick sorry to all my Flex readership for the lack of Flex related posts these last few months. I though I would drop a quick tip / class I often use to create a two way binding between a form to a corresponding class model.
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Posted: 10th June 2008
Tags: AIR, as3, cairngorm, Flex and Air
Posted in Flex and Air
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In this final part on building a medium to large scale flex or Air app using Cairngorm, I will look at how I approach the service locator and use flex builders built in responder mechanism to handle service call responses.
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Posted: 10th June 2008
Tags: AIR, as3, cairngorm, Flex and Air
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In Parts 1 & 2 we setup Cairngorm and our models. In Part 3 we will look at how we will make use of the controller, using commands to handle events, chaining together a series of commands using Cairngorm’s SequenceCommand and creating custom CairngormEvents.
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Posted: 8th June 2008
Tags: AIR, as3, cairngorm, Flex and Air
Posted in Flex and Air
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In Part 1 we created a new Flex project and setup the classes we that will be used to support our application architecture. In this part we will look at how we build our application around these classes.
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Posted: 6th June 2008
Tags: AIR, as3, cairngorm, Flex and Air
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This is the first part of a four part series on my own approach to using Cairngorm to build an enterprise Rich Internet App.

In the first part, I cover setting up your project and creating the foundation classes that will hand our Rich Internet Application together.
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Posted: 6th June 2008
Tags: AIR, as3, cairngorm, Flex and Air, mvc
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The Flex scene seems to be lacking in beginners’ guides to Cairngorm (maybe they are just alluding my Google searches) so I have put together (larger than hoped) a four part series that guides you through how I use Cairngorm.

For those of you who have read my articles on Tom Bray’s EasyMVC, this may sound surprising. I have previously posted articles on how to scale up EasyMVC into a Micro-architecture similar to Cairngorm. However, the rationale behind these articles was to help developers who implement EasyMVC and find their app out grows the implementation that Tom originally presented, and not as a blueprint for architecting apps. EasyMVC is a great framework for small Flex apps and Flex widgets where using Cairngorm would be the equivalent of taking a sledgehammer to a walnut. If you know in advance you application is going to be fairly sizable, use Cairngorm (or something like PureMVC if you prefer).

Before I get started, there is a slight disclaimer: I am going to present my own approach to using Cairngorm which does deviate from the documented approach, namely around services. I feel it is simpler, but you may beg to differ. I do not present this as the best solution or a perfect solution, but it is a tried and tested solution which hopefully will get more developers understanding and using Cairngorm where appropriate.

In essence this series should give you all you need to know to get started with Cairngorm.

Contents:

Part 1 - Setting up a project for Cairngorm
Part 2 - The Model
Part 3 - Commands
Part 4 - Services
Cairngorm Demo Source Files

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