Flex, MVC, Cairngorm and Universal Mind Extensions

This podcast with Thomas Burleson probably has the best description of MVC with Flex, why to use Cairngorm, challenges of using Cairngorm, why to use the universal mind extensions, the problem of view locators and how to work with those, etc. Good stuff. I wish there was a transcript of this.
UMEvent, UMCommand, Callbacks, and other [...]

Universal Mind Cairngorm Extensions

There are several issues I have had when developing with Cairngorm. It gets better with time as you work around the issues, but you have to “work around them”, as opposed to working within the system constraints. The constraints are good. They give form and function. But there are some headaches… certainly no offense to [...]

Cairngorm, Flex and MVC

Cairngorm helps when you’re wanting to know how to structure things. There are other options, especially as you start actually understanding the language. PureMVC is an alternate framework. Then Flexygen has a simple MVC sample… without using Cairngorm. It’s not that Cairngorm is bad! It’s the de facto standard framework for Flex (right [...]

Getting Cairngen to work with Eclipse and Tiger

Thanks to Darren who added some notes on it, there may be hope yet! (I copy things things here to my blog in case the original sources disappear as many others have done… )
And Darren, yes it did help very much!
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Starting Eclipse with an alternate VM

So I was trying out the Soylatte Java VM to get it to work with Eclipse so I could use Cairngen on a 10.4 Mac. I got an error after working with some Eclipse configurations so that Eclipse started with errors and didn’t allow much work. However starting from the command line (/Applications/eclipse/eclipse) got me [...]

Cairngen, Eclipse and “Unable to load a script engine manager”

I need to add a bunch of functionality and I really want to automate the file creation so I just started trying out Cairngen. I got this “unable to load a script engine manager” error. Fortunately I had just checked my Java VM version (default Mac OS 1.5) and according to this post I need [...]

Cairngen moving to Google Code

I use Cairngorm. It’s main strength is making sure you put code where it should go. It goes by the MVC mantra which, in and of itself, is really good. The problem? To add one new capability, you sometimes have to add… I forget how many new class files:
“Hmm… need a button here to do [...]

Cairngorm and views responding to server side events

I’ll have to dig up the links for this as a reference. But I started an app in Flex. I wanted a good framework to work with to help me organize the code, get some “best practices”, etc. I chose the then standard Cairngorm currently hosted at Adobe. Everything was happening client side so all [...]