March 12, 2009 | In: design patterns, flex, frameworks
Purpose My intended purpose for the AbstractDelegate class in Cairngorm was two-fold: Reduce the number of files needed to manage business events by organizing Delegates into domains Make each domain Delegate class as lightweight as...
February 27, 2009 | In: flex, frameworks
As time goes by and I work more with the PureMVC framework, the more I like Mate for Flex development. As I've mentioned in previous posts, I find true value in frameworks that do three things: Provide design patterns that can be standardized by a...
February 12, 2009 | In: AOP, coldfusion, coldspring, design patterns
Following up on my original post about ColdFusion performance hits on creating objects - it was suggested that I return an array of typed structures instead of an array of components. I already had a nice AOP class for each of these scenarios, so all I...
January 5, 2009 | In: flex, frameworks
The Good Old Days Remember when FuseBox came out for the ColdFusion community? Wow, it was great. Finally, we had a professionally developed code framework that was being adopted by people and companies worldwide. It showed even basic developers how...
October 3, 2008 | In: flex, frameworks, mate
Well I've finally reached a point in my latest AIR application where I can write up a useful review of the framework I chose to use: Mate. In my continuing effort to avoid Cairngorm, I've been evaluating other Flex frameworks that are lightweight,...