Posts Tagged ‘RIA’

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: 7th September 2008
Tags: AJAX, Cocoa, Javascript, Objective-C, RIA, web development
Posted in Javascript, Misc.., Objective-C and Cocoa, Technology Rants and Raves
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This may be an unusual first post in my Objective-C and Cocoa categories however it is quite relevant as the guys behind 280 Slides have released a new open source extension to the Javascript language known as Objective-J and a new Javascript framework based on Cocoa named Cappuccino.

Other than having a very nice logo designed by the guys at Sofa my first impressions are they have implemented Objective-C in javascript. To me this seems an unusual choice as I can’t image there are that many developers (within the web development industry) who are that familiar with Objective-C. Maybe I am wrong, certainly with the current gold rush to develop for the iPhone this will increase. I must admit I have been toying with Objective-C recently and once I got the hang of the syntax am really starting to enjoy it. So maybe there is method to their madness? Read the rest of this article »

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Posted: 15th October 2007
Tags: flash, Flex and Air, RIA, RIAs
Posted in Flex and Air
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Buzzword is a revolutionary Rich Internet Application that allows anyone with a browser access to a powerful word processor that gives Microsoft Word a run for it’s money. Virtual Ubiquity the developers of Buzzword (which includes well known Flex blogger David Colletta) has recently been acquired by Adobe Systems.

Although Buzzword currently has a comparatively limited feature set, it gives you everything you need to produce professional and striking documents that can be printed directly from Buzzword or exported as Microsoft Word .doc file or Word 2003 .xml file.

Virtual Ubiquity / Adobe’s Buzzword.

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