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Validation in Flex with Hamcrest-AS3
By Joel HooksNovember 20, 2009
Hamcrest? No, it isn't a fancy sandwich topping. Hamcrest is a framework for creating matchers, allowing matching rules to be defined declaratively (from Wikipedia). Hamcrest has been used by many popular unit testing frameworks including JUnit and FlexUnit 4. Hamcrest-AS3...
Google Closure: a new way of developing in JavaScript
By Davide ZanottiNovember 19, 2009
Preface Every day million people make use of Google products and these products are written mainly using one well known language: JavaScript! What makes this online software stable, fast and responsive is a good use of the language and an...
MAX 2009 Session Videos: Flex Frameworks, AR, & Best RIAs
By Rich TretolaOctober 16, 2009
InsideRIA had three sessions at Adobe MAX this year: The Battle of the Flex Frameworks Returns, with Greg Owen; Augmented Reality within the Flash Player, with Jesse Freeman; and InsideRIA's Secrets of the Best Rich Internet Apps of 2009 (So...
JXT - Javascript XHTML Tags
By Davide ZanottiOctober 9, 2009
First of all, I would like to thanks Rich Tretola and O'REILLY, for the possibility to write on this blog and talking about my project (http://www.jxtproject.com), I'm very thankful for that! ...and I'm quite embarrassed, because this is my...
Poll Results: Which Flex Frameworks would you like to see us cover at MAX?
By Rich TretolaAugust 16, 2009
We asked you which frameworks you would like to see discussed at Adobe MAX this year and you responded with Parsley, Mate, Swiz, and Pure MVC as the top frameworks you would like to hear more about. Surprisingly Cairngorm came...
New Poll: Which Flex Frameworks would you like to see us cover at MAX?
By Rich TretolaAugust 6, 2009
InsideRIA has some exciting news about Adobe MAX that we will be sharing very soon. In preparation for one of our planned sessions, we would like to know which Flex Frameworks (micro-architectures) you would like to see us debate in...
iPhone Dev: IOKit - The Missing Public Framework
By Erica SadunApril 13, 2009
A lot of fuss has been made about Apple's public and private frameworks. Did you know that there's actually a public framework that you're not allowed to use? Here are the facts.
qooxdoo Playground
By Rich TretolaDecember 23, 2008
Have you seen the new playground sample environment that was recently released by the creators of the qooxdoo JavaScript framework? My development life has concentrated mostly on development for the Flash Player over the past few years so I haven't been very involved in the JavaScript frameworks. So, the playground is great way to introduce someone, like myself who hasn't used the framework in the past to the qooxdoo syntax. The playground allows you to edit and run the sample code provided to help you get a feel of the syntax. Check it out at http://demo.qooxdoo.org/current/playground
Framework Simplicity Can Hide Pitfalls.
By Lawrence O'SullivanDecember 2, 2008
The complexity hidden by JavaScript frameworks ... and the "cool" factor can hide inefficient programming.
JavaScript Frameworks Needed on Your Resume?
By Lawrence O'SullivanNovember 26, 2008
In my first blog, I'd like to start with a question to the community. A freelance developer does a lot of interviewing. In one form or another, you have to make contact with prospective clients and convince them you're the...
FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 6: The Exciting Conclusion
By Tony HillersonNovember 22, 2008
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
By Tony HillersonNovember 21, 2008
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
By Tony HillersonNovember 21, 2008
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
By Tony HillersonNovember 21, 2008
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
By Tony HillersonNovember 21, 2008
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
By Tony HillersonNovember 21, 2008
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...
Poll Results: Which Flex framework do you currently prefer?
By Rich TretolaNovember 8, 2008
Well it appears that I was little off in my predictions. By getting over 30% of the vote PureMVC has lead the way, with Cairngorm taking second place, and Mate coming in third. I have never used PureMVC but your...
New Poll: Which Flex Framework do you currently prefer?
By Rich TretolaNovember 3, 2008
Last week, we asked about AJAX frameworks so this week, lets see how you feel about Flex frameworks. My assumption is that Cairngorm is still the preferred framework of Flex developers, but I have been surprised before. If you review...
Poll Results: Which AJAX framework do you currently prefer?
By Rich TretolaNovember 3, 2008
Wow, this was an active poll. After nearly 500 votes, with almost 50% of the vote Dojo is the clear winner. JQuery takes second place with over 20% of the vote and the rest share the remaining 30%. So, it...
Exploring the Strategy Design Pattern
By Sean MooreNovember 2, 2008
The goal of this article is to help you gain a better understanding of the Strategy design pattern. The Strategy pattern is used to separate the areas of an application that differ from the areas of an application that remain the same. This design pattern sits on top of several fundamental OOP principals. For example the Strategy pattern uses the concept of programming to an interface rather than an implementation. Strategy also favors composition over inheritance. The reason you would use the Strategy pattern is to abstract an algorithm from a class and create a new class based on the algorithm. Using polymorphism the algorithms can be changed at runtime by the compositing class.
New Poll: Which AJAX framework do you currently prefer?
By Rich TretolaOctober 27, 2008
The AJAX development community certainly has a large variety of frameworks to choose from. So, our new poll question asks which you currently prefer. I know that most AJAX developers have used more that one of these and may even...
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