With all the great programming frameworks out there, its important to be able to understand which,if any, will do your project the most good. The goal of such an analysis is not to find a winner, but to identify project conditions that cause the framework’s benefit to vary, and determine how beneficial or detrimental each [...]
Hello Everybody, I attended Flash camp the other day. The adobe guys/gals were all really nice. It seems to me that with Flash Catalyst and all the new flex features raw actionscript developers (like myself) are being compelled to jump on the flex bandwagon. I asked the flex engineers why they can’t break out flex [...]
As I have worked extensively with PureMVC I have taken note of practices that make life easier. I wouldn’t call them “Best Practices” because who am I to say whats best. But these practices have saved me tons of time and I value my time, thus the titles. #1: As we know each Mediator is [...]
Below I illustrate how I have been able to successfully load external assets (swfs) and data into pureMVC with a sequence diagram. Actually you should probably just download the Diagram jpg to take a closer look … http://www.imanit.com/blog/wp-content/2008/09/Sequence.jpg Also Below is all the text from the diagram in case you want to cut and paste: [...]
here is a link to my latest work: http://gentlemensguide.tacori.com/ I did all the action scripting for this site. I used PureMVC, tweener, etc. I used Flex Builder (actionscript only project) and loaded asset swfs that where made in flash.
6 years ago I was a Java/ C++ programmer writing a socket server for a company that just received a contract with AOL to do 40 flash games. This company asked me if I could take a stab at writing actionscript. Thats when I fell in love with game writing and actionscript. In the next [...]
Introduction I have recently been playing around with Prana. This is a wonderful inversion of Control framework written by a very talented and supportive group (Christophe Herreman, Damir Murat, Erik Westra). Below are my learnings and observations. What is Prana Prana has a class called “XMLApplicationContext” that will create objects as defined by an XML [...]
I have seen this bug in Branded Flex builder and in Eclipse with the plugin where I right click on my project, go to properties, go to ActionScript Build Path and see a blank screen. Obviously this is disconcerting when you need to add to the build path. I finally found the work around. Just [...]
About 8 months ago I was tasked with creating software that would assist in the sale of units in a building that had not yet been built. As the Technical Lead, I did the following: Wrote an SDLC for the company outlining the processes to be followed for a project of this complexity Implemented SVN [...]
This is a list of conferences people who want to learn more about web 2.0 should consider (please let me know if I missed any): Adobe MAX http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/09/adobe-max-2008-in-san-francisco-nov-16.php FITC http://www.fitc.ca/ Flash Forward http://www.flashforwardconference.com/ Flash on the beach http://www.flashonthebeach.com/ web 2.0 summit http://www.web2summit.com/ InitRIA http://initria.org/ Ajax world http://www.riaconference.com/profile/ Sat Apr 19 – Wed Apr 23: FITC Toronto 2008 [...]