Articles for October, 2007

Last week I posted some of my thoughts on the future of Flex application frameworks, which were my take-aways from the October Silicon valley Flex user’s group (a.k.a. “SilvaFUG”) users group meeting. In that post I strongly recommended watching the recordings of the presentations. The recordings are available now, so once again I highly recommend watching them (now that you actually can watch them =)

Here are the direct links:

Grant Straker on Moving ZoomFlex from a homegrown framework to Cairngorm
Ali Mills and Luke Bayes on Flex application frameworks (A great overview of the strengths and weaknesses of various frameworks like Cairngorm etc., from two really smart developers.)

Enjoy!

(via email from SilvaFUG)

Flash Player Astro’s identity crisis (or “What will ActionScript be like when it ‘grows up’?”)

Posted October 15, 2007 1:09 pm
Filed under: ActionScript, Articles by Paul, Flash, Opinions

Note: On Nov. 1, 2007 I made a small change to the title of this article. The original title was “Flash Player Astro’s personality conflict…” (substituting “identity crisis” in the current title with “personality conflict”). However, I realized that “personality conflict” wasn’t the most accurate term for what I was trying to communicate, and “identity […]

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The future of Flex application frameworks-my thoughts

Posted October 12, 2007 9:55 am
Filed under: Application Design, Articles by Paul, Flex, Frameworks, Opinions

This post started out as my notes from the Oct. 11, 2007 SilvaFUG user’s group meeting, which included two talks on Flex application frameworks, but by the end I realized it was more of a restatement of (filtered through my opinion) some of the important forward-looking ideas that came out of the audience discussions and […]

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If you’re trying to help other developers (or yourself) get a better understanding of what AIR is and isn’t, with nice information for decision-maker types (e.g. if you’re trying to explain AIR to your boss) look no further than the November 2007 issue of Dr. Dobb’s Journal. In that issue, Oliver Goldman, one of the senior engineers on the AIR team, has an article introducing/describing AIR. I think it does a great job covering the bases of what AIR is, how developers can use it, and how it can be integrated (and secured) in an enterprise setting. It’s got some depth — it’s too long for a 5 minute or less overview — although it’s not a tutorial nor is it technical in the sense of including code samples or anything like that (which surprised me since Oliver is an engineer — but, as I’ve learned, he’s also a great writer.)

AIR embedded SQL database: What’s new in beta 2

Posted October 9, 2007 4:41 pm
Filed under: ActionScript, AIR, Articles by Paul, AS3, JavaScript, local SQL database, SQL, Tutorials

Now that the roar of MAX is over, and since AIR public beta 2 is now available on Adobe Labs, I thought I’d highlight what’s new in beta 2 specifically around the embedded SQL database in AIR: Synchronous database operations Schema API (database instrospection) Additional data types Other new documentation Bug fixes Synchronous database operations […]

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