http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/ en Copyright 2008 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:31:36 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.16 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss At Max Milan last week, I gave a presentation on Flex Development with Cairngorm. The presentation was based largely on the "Cairngorm: Tips and Tricks from the Experts" presentation my colleagues Peter Martin and Eric Garza gave at Max in... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2008/12/max_milan_-_fle.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2008/12/max_milan_-_fle.html Cairngorm Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:31:36 +0000 Following on from the news that Cairngorm has been moved to Adobe Open Source, it is my pleasure to announce that FlexUnit, the unit testing framework for Flex applications, now has a new home on Adobe Open Source. FlexUnit... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2008/08/flexunit_on_ado.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2008/08/flexunit_on_ado.html FlexUnit Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:00:01 +0000 So, Cairngorm has been on Adobe Open Source for over one week now, and I thought I'd summarize what's happened since. It has been interesting to watch the community response to my announcement. To Adobe Consulting, this was a move... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2008/08/open_source_cai.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2008/08/open_source_cai.html Flex Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:20:46 +0000 Adobe Consulting is pleased to announce that the Cairngorm Micro-architecture has moved onto Adobe Open Source. Its hard to believe that Cairngorm is approaching 4 years old - Steven and I announced it at the Max conference in New Orleans... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2008/08/cairngorm_moved.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2008/08/cairngorm_moved.html Cairngorm Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:50:58 +0000 Recently, I've seen a few questions around Cairngorm and how commands and responders fit together when using asynchronous services with Flex. I'd like to clarify a couple of points. A Command need only implement the Flex IResponder interface if it... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/11/cairngorm_comma.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/11/cairngorm_comma.html Cairngorm Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:14:09 +0000 After a few months of being in beta, Cairngorm 2.2.1 for Flex has been released on Adobe Labs. There is nothing new in this release over previous releases; it's only purpose is to align Cairngorm with the moving of SWC... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/10/cairngorm_221_r.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/10/cairngorm_221_r.html Cairngorm Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:23:33 +0000 The Flex Scheduling Framework, previously on Adobe Labs, now has a new home, as part of the FlexLib project on Google Code. The Flex Scheduling Framework was borne out of Adobe Consulting engagements, as is not part of the Flex... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/06/flex_scheduling_2.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/06/flex_scheduling_2.html Flex Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:35:07 +0000 I posted last Friday about the release of Hotfix 2 for Flex 2.0.1, and how the moving of classes between the core Flex SDK and LiveCycle Data Services was causing a compiler error unless you had fds.swc on your library... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/05/new_release_-_c.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/05/new_release_-_c.html Cairngorm Wed, 30 May 2007 13:13:20 +0000 Flex 2.0.1 Hotfix 2 has been released today, containing a collection of Flex 2.0.1 bug fixes. As part of this release, some classes, which are not required as part of the core SDK, have been moved into Flex Data Services... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/05/flex_201_hotfix.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/05/flex_201_hotfix.html Cairngorm Fri, 25 May 2007 17:06:30 +0000 In today's post about the recent release of Cairngorm 2.2, I'll give the reasoning behind the most obvious change made to the distrubution of the framework - the splitting of it into two parts, Cairngorm and Cairngorm Enterprise. The main... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/05/cairngorm_22_-_2.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/05/cairngorm_22_-_2.html Cairngorm Thu, 17 May 2007 14:40:28 +0000 In a continuation on my series of posts covering the recent Cairngorm 2.2 release, today I'll give the motivation behind another one of the changes that we made in the MVC micro-architecture for Flex: weak references in the front controller.... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/05/cairngorm_22_-_1.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/05/cairngorm_22_-_1.html Cairngorm Thu, 03 May 2007 11:16:14 +0000 Cairngorm 2.2, the latest version of the Flex micro-architecture, released on Friday, was a fairly minor release with just a few new features and minor fixes. However, I thought it would be worthwhile for me to document the motivation behind... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/05/cairngorm_22_-.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/05/cairngorm_22_-.html Cairngorm Tue, 01 May 2007 12:09:30 +0000 The beta version of Cairngorm 2.2 for Flex has been kicking around for some time now, and, on Friday, I eventually got around to getting the release version up on Adobe Labs. You can read the release notes here. The... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/04/cairngorm_22_re.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/04/cairngorm_22_re.html Cairngorm Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:31:55 +0000 Back in September 2006, I posted a graph which showed the meteoric rise in the number of posts to the Flex maling list, FlexCoders. A few months on, I thought it was time to post an updated graph. Here it... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/02/flexcoders_post_1.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/02/flexcoders_post_1.html Flex Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:46:31 +0000 Its been brought to my attention that I never got around to posting the presentation slides from my Max talk in Las Vegas last year. The talk was on Flex Automation, and covered, amongst other things, Automatic Build Systems, the... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/01/flex_automation.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2007/01/flex_automation.html Flex Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:23:15 +0000