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Robotlegs demo application

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Jorge Solis

RobotLegs is one of the more recents frameworks based on Dependency Injection like Parsley or Swiz, but with a strong emphasis in a Model-View-Controller arquitecture, that is suggested as the pattern of choice (but is not mandatory) RobotLegs use the … Continue reading →

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PureMVC demo application

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Jorge Solis

PureMVC is probably one of the oldest ActionScript and Flex frameworks. It was born using ActionScript, but quickly was ported to other languages like Ruby, Python, C++, PHP or Java. His name expose clearly his matrix: it follows Model-View-Controller pattern, … Continue reading →

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Mate demo application

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Jorge Solis

Mate is a is a tag-based, event-driven lightweight Flex framework that could be used mixed with others like Cairgorm. It uses injection to pass reference to the views declared in a central EventMap, where you also declare event handling. You … Continue reading →

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Cairgorm demo application

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Jorge Solis

Cairngorm was my first framework when I begin with RIA development. Probably his difficult name and the tight support of Adobe help in his early adoption. Cairngorm was borrowed from J2EE and has been in use now for a decade … Continue reading →

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Pass parameters to Spark Skins

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Jorge Solis

Sometimes we face the case where we should skin multiple components in a similar way, but with a small difference. Yesterday I should skin 6 spark Panels with different header color. Spark panels doesn’t support headerColors style as his Halo … Continue reading →

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Parsley demo application

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Jorge Solis

short story: Parsley gives me the more long stack errors I have seen, I.e I have received 183 lines in the stack for a fail in instantiating the User… so if you come from Java you’re at home Parsley is … Continue reading →

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Flex SDK 4.5 mobile roadmap

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Jorge Solis

I was certainly very excited about the new SDK regarding to mobile development. Lately many clients ask about mobile support for their applications and slowly all projects become multi target (web, local, tablet, mobile) This imply a difficult migration, running … Continue reading →

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Flex SDK 4.5 is out!

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Jorge Solis

Finally Flex SDK 4.5 leaves the beta state and was officially released with all the CS5.5 package. Changes are not major like in the transition between Flex 3 and Flash Builder 4, but it adds important features. First of all, … Continue reading →

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Swiz demo application

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Jorge Solis

You can download the demo application as fxp file (Flash Builder Project) from here You can see the running application here (select framework you’re working on for multiple choice) Swiz is an Inversion of Control/Dependency injection based framework that keeps … Continue reading →

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Flex frameworks

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Jorge Solis

Goals This a small serie featuring available frameworks in Flex. The main idea is to read documentation and write right away a small Multiple Choice application using each of the frameworks. Probably you think this is a crazy approach, since … Continue reading →

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