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Battle of the Flex Frameworks at Highwinds

mariotalavera — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:47:42 +0000

In the endless wisdom of our group intelligence at Highwinds; we've decided to evaluate three of the most prominent Frameworks for Flex. Max has created a sample application and tasked each of us, Tommy, Russ and I, to rewrite it using a different framework each. Tommy has been tasked with Cairngorm, I think, because he has vast experience in it. Russ has been given PureMVC because he seems to be able to do any of them and that one seemed like a nice exercise for him.

Unencumbered by he thought process and the lack of information, I am positively making great strides rewriting the application in Swiz. Swiz is one of the newest frameworks being developed for Flex. The other recent one is Mate but we have no more developers in our team...

Swiz is the product of Chris Scott (of ColdSpring fame). ColdSpring is an inversion of control framework for Coldfusion and he is applying his knowledge of this to Flex with Swiz. He recently opened a Google group for the framework.

Slowly but surely, information is making its ways to the tubes. Recently, Chris just posted a 'getting started' guide and sample code. Almost as important, he was recently interviewed in the Flex Show where he gives very insightful information on Swiz. Besides my colleagues, these are the only resources on this framework so far.

The Flex show also has interviewed Laura Arguello. She is the author of the Mate Framework. I haven't listened to this one yet. Mate seems a little more intriguing to me at the moment, if only because there is more documentation for it. Or, most likely, because this is the one we're not evaluating...

I'm very exited to see where this exercise leads us. I plan on using this great oppotunity to learn Swiz and to adapt some of my way-to-simple apps to use the framework and see how it facilitates working in Flex.

Flex development

thirul — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:03:13 +0000

I am just started exploring Flex development. I found some of the tutorials useful for beginners like me :-)

1. Install FlexBuilder ( IDE for FLEX) or Plug-In to Eclipse IDE (free one)

2. Sample examples and more documentation find below

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/

3. Live examples with view sources

http://blog.flexexamples.com/

4. More links here.

http://www.cflex.net/

http://flexbox.mrinalwadhwa.com/

Hope this helps for beginners :-)

Thiru.

Flex Explorer

tomgutz — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:31:00 +0000

When I am developing components on Flex the first thing that come to mind is "How it should look like?" or "How it will behave?" As we know it takes time to code such look and feel from scratch and testing every change we do just to validate if the outcome is what is intended. So to cut off such trial and error overhead, I decided to collect all the Flex UI Explorer out there. Hopefully this saves me time in my development when facing the usual questions.

Filter Explorer

Flex 2 Style Explorer

Flex Style Explorer

Flex 2 Component Explorer

Hello World

equilibrismi — Sat, 17 May 2008 06:18:50 +0000

How not to start a coding blog with a simple Hello World App?
Here we are then, Flex Hello World (but at least with plug in detection..)
No need for commented code so far.

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Come non iniziare a bloggare di programmazione senza una bella e semplice applicazione Hello World? Quindi eccomi qui con un Hello World in Flex , però ci ho aggiuunto almeno il plug in detectionVista la banalità dell'esempio, per ora niente codice commentato.