April 7, 2009 | In: actionscript, cairngorm, flex
Application Design 201 Granularity is a well-known topic in software development. Another common concept is encapsulation. There's books, magazine articles, and blog posts about these topics going back decades (well, not the blog posts). One...
March 31, 2009 | In: cairngorm, design patterns, flex
Related Posts Abstract Commands Basic Cairngorm Commands In the base implementation of the Cairngorm micro-architecture, events and commands are mapped on a 1-1 basis. For every invoker (event) you have to specify one command in your...
March 23, 2009 | In: cairngorm, design patterns, flex
Cairngorm++ Call me a junkie, that's fine, but this stuff works. I've said many times in the past that the whole purpose of using design patterns, code frameworks, and application architectures should be to reduce the code I write (as time progresses),...
March 18, 2009 | In: design patterns, flex, frameworks
Purpose My intended purpose for the AbstractCommand class in Cairngorm was two-fold: Implement a callback feature so that a view can specify another action to perform upon the successful completion of an event Make each Command class as lightweight...
March 18, 2009 | In: design patterns, flex, frameworks
Purpose My intended purpose for the AbstractEvent class in Cairngorm was three-fold: Reduce the number of files needed to manage business events by organizing Events into domains Implement a callback feature so that a view can specify another...