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FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 6: The Exciting Conclusion

Tony Hillerson
January 6, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (5)

Well kids, it's been a wild ride. We've looked at five implementations of a simple Twitter client built with no framework, Cairngorm, PureMVC, Swiz, and Mate. We've talked about important things like pronouncing the framework's names, architectural patterns, Inversion...

FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 5: Mate, the Pure MXML Framework

Tony Hillerson
December 30, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (7)

FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 5: Mate, the Pure MXML Framework

Let’s get this out of the way first thing. It’s Mah-tay, not M-eight. Like the drink, the creators of Mate, Nahuel Faronda and Laura Arguello, come from Argentina. If you’ve never tried Mate (the drink), you should - it’s tasty....

FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 4: IoC With Swiz

Tony Hillerson
December 23, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (4)

With a name like Swiz, it has to be good, right? Welcome back, friends, to part four of our ongoing effort to understand these four Flex frameworks. This time we’re going to look at Swiz, a relative newcomer, created by...

FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 3: Framework Agnostic Views with PureMVC

Tony Hillerson
December 16, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (9)

Last week we took a look at how to clean up our Twitter client by using Cairngorm to separate the concerns according to the time honored MVC architectural pattern. Now we’re going to see how it feels to work with...

FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 2: Get Control with Cairngorm

Tony Hillerson
December 9, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (7)

Carebear? Carhorn? What? Cairngorm is the Flex Framework with the odd name that’s been around almost since the beginning of Flex. It was created by a company called iteration::two, which went on to become Adobe Consulting’s European practice around the...

FrameworkQuest 2008: Introduction

Tony Hillerson
December 2, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (11)

FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 1: Take a Step Back Frameworks Frameworks, frameworks, frameworks. We talk about them all the time. What’s the best one? Which one ticks the most boxes off the pattern checklist? What’s everyone using these days? We talk...

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 20: Administration Section: Layout and Navigation

Tony Hillerson
June 6, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (6)

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 20: Administration Section: Layout and Navigation

This installment concludes our series on Flex, LiveCycle Data Services, and EJB 3.0 by exploring the administrative section of the application, showing more managed data features, and looking at server push from JMS to Flex.

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 19: User Section: The Search Process

Tony Hillerson
May 27, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2)

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 19: User Section: The Search Process

In the last installment of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA, we worked on building the Flex view. In this installment we're going to continue looking into the Flex view by examining the search tools in our application.

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 18: Building the View

Tony Hillerson
May 19, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (4)

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 18: Building the View

In this installment of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA we're going to continue building the Flex view. We'll see more of mxml, Flex's layout language, and Flex's powerful binding framework.

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 17: Testing Flex

Tony Hillerson
May 12, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (5)

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 17: Testing Flex

We've already seen how to automate the Java unit tests with TestNG, and in this week’s installment of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA we're going to automate our Flex tests with Flex Unit and Maven/Ant. Join us Mondays as we finish up our series, Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA.

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FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 6: The Exciting Conclusion
Tony Hillerson

Well kids, it's been a wild ride. We've looked at five implementations of a simple Twitter client built with no framework, Cairngorm, PureMVC, Swiz, and Mate. We've talked about important things like pronouncing the framework's names, architectural patterns, Inversion... Continue Reading
FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 5: Mate, the Pure MXML Framework
Tony Hillerson

Let’s get this out of the way first thing. It’s Mah-tay, not M-eight. Like the drink, the creators of Mate, Nahuel Faronda and Laura Arguello, come from Argentina. If you’ve never tried Mate (the drink), you should - it’s tasty.... Continue Reading
FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 4: IoC With Swiz
Tony Hillerson

With a name like Swiz, it has to be good, right? Welcome back, friends, to part four of our ongoing effort to understand these four Flex frameworks. This time we’re going to look at Swiz, a relative newcomer, created by... Continue Reading
FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 3: Framework Agnostic Views with PureMVC
Tony Hillerson

Last week we took a look at how to clean up our Twitter client by using Cairngorm to separate the concerns according to the time honored MVC architectural pattern. Now we’re going to see how it feels to work with... Continue Reading