So I just snagged the WordPress iPhone app. And wanted to we how it worked. Yay. Now I can blog from just about anywhere – even the bathroom (not that I would of course)!
Mate & Swiz – Other Flex Frameworks
Jun Heider just pointed me to the Swiz Framework.
Swiz is a framework for Adobe Flex that aims to bring complete simplicity to RIA development. Swiz provides Inversion of Control, event handing, and simple life cycle for asynchronous remote methods. In contrast to other major frameworks for Flex, Swiz imposes no JEE patterns on your code, no repetitive folder layouts, and no boilerplate code on your development.
Looks very interesting! I’m right in the middle of a quick project that we are using Mate for, so I guess I’ll have to check out the Swiz framework next. Hopefully I’ll have the time to write out some of my thoughts on both frameworks as I finish playing with them.
Status Update – what I’m doing and have done latley
Its been a crazy busy summer so far! Here is quick status of the stuff that I’ve been doing.
Work
Lots of ActionScript 2 – oh yay! But, it is still needed for some clients. Not a whole lot of exciting stuff there, but it is keeping me busy!
A bit of fun with Flex and ActionScript 3 – we’re working on some super secret code for a local company who is updating their site. I’ve been lucky enough to be able to squeeze in a few ‘voids’ between all the ‘Voids’ to create a cool component docking framework and SharedObject Manager class. I’ll see what everyone here says about sharing the code and share what I can.
Projects & Ideas
I’ve been playing around with lots of APIs and such lately. Trying to wrap my brain around the Social Graph – what is it good for, some really good ways to use it. So, I’ve signed up with tons of different Social Networks and services to see what is out there and what people are doing with it. You can check out the Social Links on the right for a list of those that I actually use regularly.
I’ve also got a couple of projects that I’ll release to the wild when I actually get around to finishing them:
- PingThem – Adobe Air desktop application for ping.fm
- Remember The Milk – to-do list desktop application
- Remember The Milk AS3 Library – this will probably end up on Google code
The book that I was helping Chris Korhonen out with has been released. Yay Chris!
Travel
Just spent the last 2 weekends driving down to New Mexico so Aidan could spend a week with his Grams. Has a few good meals in Santa Fe and got to relax a bit – good stuff.
Pretty sure I’ll be going to 360Flex in San Jose in August. From what I hear – it is a damn fine conference and one of the more fun/interesting conferences for Flex – so I’m excited!
Other than that, don’t have much else planned. Possibly go out to Virginia to see my Dad and/or Austin to play a little.
Links: SQLLite, Peddle Pushers & Music Mixing
A very lightweight firefox extension (originally) to manage all your sqlite databases. This extension will be useful to developers who want to create and play with sqlite databases. Thanks Jun!
Clear Data Builder 3.0 becomes a free product
A code generator Clear Data Builder 3.0 will become available free of charge. Clear Data Builder (CDB) was released as a command-line open source code generator a.k.a. DaoFlex.
Protonotes are notes that you add to your prototype that allow project team members to discuss system functionality, design, and requirements directly on the prototype.
Assembla – Accelerating Software Development
Use Assembla spaces for rapid software development, and agile team collaboration. Get free workspaces with unlimited team size and integrated tools like wiki, discussion, alerts, chat, ticketing, Trac, Git and Subversion.
Got the invite from Jun – Social network type site for music mixes.
Mate Flex Framework — A tag-based event-driven Flex framework
Mate framework has been created to make it easy to handle the events your Flex application creates. Mate allows you to define who is handling those events, whether data needs to be retrieved from the server, or other events need to be triggered.
Welcome to on-the-spot live-blogging. Think of it as a media rich conference call.
Brand new Google Reader for iPhone
W00t! I’m liking it so far!
This API lets Flex developers embed Google Maps in Flash applications.
Social networking for peddle pushers
WTF is JavaFX?!? (book review)
I didn’t really know anything about JavaFX until I picked up this book. Now not only do I know what it is, I can use it too. If you’re looking to understand what JavaFX is and where it might fit in your toolset then go grab the 216 page book “JavaFX Script: Dynamic Java Scripting for Rich Internet/Client-side Applications”. This book will get you rolling quickly and simply and give you the basics you’ll need to know to properly evaluate if it is right for you.
With that said – if your not familiar with programming concepts (conditionals, loops etc.) in general, or if you want an in-depth explanation of where JavaFX fits into the scheme of things, then I would not suggest this book.
Rated /5 on May 29 2008
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