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Tactical and strategic XML design

By Rick Jelliffe
November 6, 2009

So I guess when we look at a system's architecture, the first thing we can do is ask 'Is this XML here being used strategically or tactically?' A strategic use might be, for example, to allow long-term archiving; a tactical use might be XML in AJAX (where using JSON would be another tactic.) If the answer is tactical, then we can ask 'Is it implemented in a way that allows flexible rearrangement, when a different tactic becomes appropriate?'

Getting Java, C# and Perl to speak the same language (with JSON)

By Andrew Stellman
October 4, 2009

I've been thinking a lot about architecture lately. It's partially because Jenny and I are going to do our Beautiful Teams talk at the ITARC 2009 conference next week. But it's also because I've been writing a lot of code...

Four short links: 30 September 2009

By Nat Torkington
September 30, 2009

Smart Materials in Architecture -- Using thermal bimetals can allow architects to experiment with shape-changing buildings, Ritter said. Thermal bimetals include a combination of materials with different expansion coefficients that can cause a change in. Under changing temperatures this can lead one side of a compound to bend more than the other side, potentially creating an entirely different shape,...

ExternalInterface and Code Injection Part 2

By Tom Barker
September 25, 2009

In a previous article I outlined why I needed to inject JavaScript into a page from ActionScript, now I'd like to show the implementation. Essentially I created a new class called JSInjector. Within JSInjector I created a static function...

Four short links: 22 September 2009

By Nat Torkington
September 22, 2009

The City is a Battlesuit for Surviving the Future (IO9) -- a great essay by Matt Jones, based on his talk at Webstock this year. Urban design is how we created alternate realities before we had iPhones, and the new technology lets us choose which science fiction future we want to inhabit. We are now a predominantly urban species,...

ExternalInterface and Code Injection Part 1

By Tom Barker
September 7, 2009

In some of my recent articles I detailed the architecture and some implementation of a video player swapper - that is a video player that can play different kinds of videos, assuming that the videos required specific unique players. After...

Memory Management with the Dictionary Object

By Tom Barker
August 31, 2009

In my previous article I detailed the architecture for a video player that would switch between multiple players, using composition to support the same interface across each layer of the architecture. The architecture worked out really well, but when I...

Composition and the Player Swapper

By Tom Barker
August 16, 2009

Around a year ago I was given the task to create an architecture for a syndicatable video player, capable of playing any video that might be served up by our different products. The first thing I had to do was...

Poll Results: Which Flex Frameworks would you like to see us cover at MAX?

By Rich Tretola
August 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...

Five Reasons Architecture Matters

By Dan Thomas
June 19, 2009

This post is an attempt to help justify the sometimes seemingly unappreciated efforts of good application architecture. Sometimes project managers/clients can question time spent on architecture and it can be hard to bring out appropriate explanations on the spot. This...

Four short links: 29 Apr 2009

By Nat Torkington
April 29, 2009

Moot Wins, Time Inc. Loses -- summary of how the 4chan group Anonymous rigged the voting in Time's 100 Most Influential poll to not just put their man at the top, but also spell an in-joke with the initial letters of the first 21 people. Time tried weakly to prevent the vote-rigging, and ReCAPTCHA gave the Internet scalliwags their...

Four short links: 1 Apr 2009

By Nat Torkington
April 1, 2009

No April Fools jokes because I'm a Grinch. Instead you get architecture, research, visualization, and pain: Stacks, Readers, Staff--Building the British Library is an overview of what a momentous accomplishment the British Library was. And a reminder that no matter how gorgeous, loved, and inevitable the final product seems, there's always a pitched battle to get it made. Architect Sir...

What Is Enterprise? Dan Chak Explains

By Sara Peyton
February 18, 2009

With Enterprise Rails, author Dan Chak's gives you the tools to develop applications for the enterprise world for websites with global scale. In the book, Chak, who has worked for Amazon.com, shows you how to make good architectural choices from the beginning of a project. Read on for an excerpt, "What is Enterprise."

The Role of Architect vs. The Role of the Software Architect, A Reality Check from Beautiful Architecture

By Sara Peyton
February 10, 2009

We recently released Beautiful Architecture, a beautiful new book with a lovely image of a nautilus shell gracing the cover. The collection of essays from more than a dozen of today's leading software designers and architects illuminates the necessary ingredients for robust, elegant, and flexible architecture. Here John Klein, Software Engineering Institute, and David Weiss, Avaya Laboratories, grapple with the multiple definitions of architect.

Four short links: 10 Jan 2009

By Nat Torkington
January 9, 2009

Here are four fun links to set the tone for your weekend: high risk money, productive failure, consumer-grade BitTorrent, and architecture criticism for the rest of us. How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing -- perhaps "hack" is a little excessive, but it's a readable short account of how Porsche made a lot of money playing "millionaire's...

SOA Still Alive and Well--Sell it to the Business

By David A. Chappell
January 8, 2009

In case you need to catch up, Anne Thomas Manes of Burton Group declared that "SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession!".

But What Exactly "Is" Cloud Computing?

By Kurt Cagle
December 17, 2008

If buzzwords didn't exist, the computer industry as we know it would collapse. Really! For instance, here's a quick pop-quiz - 1. Define Cloud Computing in twenty five words or less. Please show all work. Er ... um ... it's...

Forensic Architecture

By Rich Tretola
October 3, 2008

Duane Nickull has a new post that shares what he has learned from participating in 4 large architectural groups including the OASIS Service Oriented Architecture Reference Model Technical Committee, the W3C Web Services Architecture working group, the United Nations CEFACT eBusiness SOA project and ebXML as well as how these lessons will be applied to an upcoming book on Web 2.0 written by Duane, Tim O’Reilly, Dion Hinchcliffe and James Governor.

Drupal as Open Architecture

By Kurt Cagle
August 14, 2008

I have a confession to make - after close to a decade covering XML, I have something of a new love ... and the name of that love is Drupal. Drupal's become one of those interesting hobbies that is rapidly becoming both a profession and a passion. It wasn't supposed to happen this way ... by rights, I should be deeply in the world of Ruby on Rails right now, or learning the latest deep programming secrets of Python, but somewhere along the line I realized one of those ugly little fundamental truths that good programmers should never actually learn - that at some point, recreating the wheel yet again begins to lose its luster, and, indeed, become rather ... well ... dull.

Flash becomes more searchable

By RJ Owen
July 1, 2008

Adobe announced this evening that they're working with Yahoo and Google to make Flash content more searchable. Both companies have been given a special version of the flash player that can crawl swfs and automatically perform every action a user might, from clicking buttons to entering text in text areas to dragging and moving interactive controls.

The Origins of MVC

By Andrew Trice
June 25, 2008

While there has recently been an increase in the buzz regarding frameworks, design patterns, and MVC architectures, they really are not new concepts. In fact, the MVC design pattern has probably been around longer than a number of the people actively reading this blog.

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 14: Services and Delegates

By Tony Hillerson
April 21, 2008

Last time we looked at Cairngorm and its role in our application. This installment of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA, we're going to look at Cairngorm’s business delegates and how to set up a service oriented architecture in Flex. Join us every Monday for the next installment in our series: Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA.

Understanding The Architecture of a Rich Internet Application

By Andrew Trice
February 7, 2008

Whether you are using Flex, Ajax, Silverlight, JavaFx, or some other RIA technology, the basic architecture is going to be pretty similar... In most cases you will typically have have a stateful client application and a separate services layer on the backend. It is important to understand this differentiation, and to understand that this plays a huge role in how you design and build your applications.

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