A good short-list of PHP frameworks

I have had to come back to PHP after a long hiatus. I prefer Python but recent projects require PHP and thus my return. I did a project recently with CodeIgniter which really is a spiffy project. But I would like a true OOP PHP5 MVC fast lightweight framework that has user auth, session management [...]

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 [...]

More on MVC

Going to have to do some more reading here later… Joes’ article “An architectural blueprint for Flex applications” was probably the first thing I tried to chew through to understand MVC, Cairngorm, and “separating concerns” while building an app in Flex. Model adapters and view mediators look like something I have been wrapping my head [...]

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 [...]

Computed properties and binding

This is also something I’ll have to take a look at later.
Computed properties and binding « FLEXYGEN
Updating views in response to model changes is a snap with Flex data binding.
A model property is set to be [Bindable] and and a view property is set to an expression in curly braces that refers 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 [...]