4 Things To Hate About PureMVC
5 Oct 2008 7:47pm GMT Previously, I have written about how puremvc takes a stand on patterns of gui architecture while Cairngorm does not. I have also proclaimed to colleagues, that I do not find puremvc especially great, but at the same time find it “good enough”, which is to be understood as: The current contenders are (were?) not any [...]
Are You Using IntelliJ IDEA Flex Support?
16 Sep 2008 7:45pm GMT Or am I one of the few people on the planet, who punishes myself with this half-baked support for flex that IntelliJ IDEA has, instead of just jumping the dreaded FlexBuilder ship, before I sink myself? Okay, that was a bit harsh, it just seems to me, that there isn’t a day, without a new issue [...]
Flash and Flex APIs Lack in Quality
11 Sep 2008 9:05pm GMT Coming from long term Java programming, I can see that I have gotten used to very good api design. It is not, that JavaSE and JavaEE doesn’t have their corners of bad api design. But working with flash and flex, I seem to come across strange and bad api design a bit too often. The other [...]
Are AS3 Number Variables Real Objects or Not?
11 Sep 2008 8:27pm GMT I am confused. Is the Number class really a class, that I can create instances of and expect to have reference semantics etc. like the rest of the classes in ActionScript3? Given this AS3 code: var foo : Number = null; trace("foo="+foo); The compiler outputs a warning saying “null used where a Number value was expected“, but it does [...]
Mate - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
10 Sep 2008 7:52pm GMT Lately, the new Mate flex framework by asfusion has caused quite a stir in the flex community, as a contender to the established frameworks of Cairngorm and PureMVC. Most of the comments on Mate that I have seen has been quite positive, which I think is well deserved. Mate offers a new way of doing [...]