http://www.objectiveaction.com/Kevin/index.cfm An Objective Look at Adobe and the Internet en-us Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:18:35+0100 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:54:00+0100 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss kevin@objectiveinternet.com kevin@objectiveinternet.com http://www.objectiveaction.com/Kevin/index.cfm/2008/6/16/Cairngorm-vs-Mate I use a framework for all my ColdFusion Development so I know I need a framework for Flex and have struggled to learn and use Cairngorm. I am not sure what it is about Cairngorm but every time I look at it I feel stupid. It seems to make sense but seems to be difficult. Today, I got chance to <a href="http://mate.asfusion.com/page/documentation/overview" target="_blank">read about Mate</a>. Wow! I undertand it! Finally I feel I can start using Flex without worrying that the code I create is missing somthing important. Mate Cairngorm Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:54:00+0100 http://www.objectiveaction.com/Kevin/index.cfm/2008/6/16/Cairngorm-vs-Mate http://www.objectiveaction.com/Kevin/index.cfm/2007/6/25/Jim-Robson--Managing-Complexity-with-Cairngorm Jim has been working with Flash since 1999 when Flash 4 was new. As applications develop, requirements grow and complexity increases so it is important to be able to add new facilities. Cairngorm makes it easy to collaborate on a single file or projects. It makes it easy to find things in your code and add new features. Every time you use Cairngorm you have to add the Cairngorm Library to the build Path in project properties. Ant can be used to create the application skeleton to save a lot of typing. Eric Feminella has written some Ant Scripts, which create several objects needed by the framework. Several folders are created with Actionscript files in each already. <ul> <li>business</li> <li>commands</li> <li>control</li> <li>events</li> <li>model</li> <li>vo</li> </ul> In the class we created a news reader which would take newsfeeds from Reuters. There were one or two problems keeping up with the class. (I am not used to the US keyboard.) www.cairngormdocs.org is the place to go for the full description of the framework. My overall impression was that there does seem to be more overheads here than is really necessary for a simple application and I am concerned that with a really large application the huge number of files will grow and make it difficult to maintain things. At lunch I talked with Mike and Angie Nimer who have some experience of using Cairngorm. They confirmed my thoughts and both said that there is a heavy price to pay in terms of extra overhead required in order to build an application with Cairngorm. Flex Cairngorm Frameworks Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:27:00+0100 http://www.objectiveaction.com/Kevin/index.cfm/2007/6/25/Jim-Robson--Managing-Complexity-with-Cairngorm