Mate – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Lately, the new Mate flex framework by asfusion has caused quite a stir in the flex community, as a contender to the established frameworks of Cairngorm and PureMVC. Most of the comments on Mate that I have seen has been quite positive, which I think is well deserved. Mate offers a new way of doing [...]

September 10, 2008  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Design, Programming, Rich Internet Applications  11 Comments

Patterns of GUI Architecture in Cairngorm and PureMVC

In the flex application we are currently developing, the need has arisen to get some more structure on the code. In the upcoming months, we are going to do a great deal of flex development, heavily expanding the functionality of the application, and of course we want to keep a maintainable application. Because of this, [...]

June 9, 2008  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Design, Rich Internet Applications  18 Comments