http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/ en Copyright 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:12:01 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.16 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss So far we've looked at possible unit test strategies for presentation models and supervising presenters. Now I want to turn my attention to the Autonomous View pattern. By leaving state and logic in the view, the Autonomous View pattern... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2008/09/unit_testing_us_3.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2008/09/unit_testing_us_3.html Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:12:01 -0800 In my last entry I took a look at unit testing the classes of a simple Presentation Model application. In this entry I'm going to turn my attention to a functionally-identical Supervising Presenter application. If you cast your mind... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2008/05/unit_testing_us_2.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2008/05/unit_testing_us_2.html Tue, 27 May 2008 14:57:59 -0800 As mentioned in the introduction, I'm going to attempt to unit test my presentation model example application first. Of all the presentation patterns I've looked at, I'm expecting the presentation model to be the easiest to unit test. Challenges... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2008/04/unit_testing_us_1.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2008/04/unit_testing_us_1.html Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:54:17 -0800 You may have caught my last series in which I looked at six different patterns for organising view logic in a Flex client. In this series I'm going to take the demonstration applications for three of those patterns and... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2008/03/unit_testing_us.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2008/03/unit_testing_us.html Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:25:53 -0800 Towards the end of last year I took a look at six contrasting patterns for organising presentation logic. Some of these patterns are well known and popular in the Flex community, others are very rarely discussed. If you know... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2008/02/presentation_pa_7.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2008/02/presentation_pa_7.html Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:55:17 -0800 Like the Supervising Presenter, the Passive View pattern is a derivative of Model View Presenter (MVP). Martin Fowler split MVP into separate patterns to highlight two common approaches for realising MVP. The Passive View pattern also has some similarities... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2007/11/presentation_pa_6.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2007/11/presentation_pa_6.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:20:21 -0800 Code Behind is a somewhat vague term that means different things to different people. I believe it was originally coined by Microsoft to describe any strategy for separating logic from content in ASP pages. Using this broad definition it... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2007/11/presentation_pa_5.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2007/11/presentation_pa_5.html Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:04:38 -0800 While looking at the Supervising Presenter and Presentation Model patterns it occurred to me that some people may find these concepts reminiscent of the View Helper pattern that enjoyed a spell of popularity in some Cairngorm architectures. Since the... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2007/11/presentation_pa_4.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2007/11/presentation_pa_4.html Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:32:28 -0800 The next pattern I want to look at goes a step further than the Supervising Presenter by moving logic and state out of the view. Once again discussed by Martin Fowler, the Presentation Model has its roots in the... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2007/10/presentation_pa_3.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2007/10/presentation_pa_3.html Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:15:09 -0800 Like the Autonomous View, this is another one of Martin Fowler's patterns. He calls it Supervising Controller, but suggests the alternative name of Supervising Presenter. I'm voting for the latter for the following reasons: This pattern is a derivative of... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2007/10/presentation_pa_2.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2007/10/presentation_pa_2.html Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:10:52 -0800 So as I mentioned in the introduction, the first pattern I'm going to look at is known as 'Autonomous View'. Of all the patterns I'll cover, this one is likely to be the most familiar to Flex developers. Although Martin... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2007/09/presentation_pa_1.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2007/09/presentation_pa_1.html Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:11:01 -0800 A recurring theme on forums like flexcoders is the issue of user interface architecture within Flex applications. Rich-client applications developed using frameworks like Flex are something of a departure from 'traditional' web applications, so the architectures employed for such applications... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2007/09/presentation_pa.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2007/09/presentation_pa.html Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:25:44 -0800 The ActionScript 3 compiler is your friend. At least it really wants to be. But some people don't seem interested in responding to its amicable overtures. No, they'd rather go it alone. However, keeping this clever code-cruncher on-side has its... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2007/01/compilers_have.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2007/01/compilers_have.html Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:48:02 -0800 If you are developing an MVC application with Flex, sooner or later you are going to want to trigger some functionality in your view when a property in your model changes. A common approach for achieving this is to use... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2006/05/the_worlds_smal.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2006/05/the_worlds_smal.html Tue, 30 May 2006 03:25:59 -0800 Earlier this month I had the opportunity to attend the Flex 2 Readiness Event at Prisma IT's Rotterdam office. The main goal of the four day course was to provide a broad overview of Flex 2's features. There were fourteen... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2006/05/flex_2_readines.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2006/05/flex_2_readines.html Mon, 15 May 2006 06:24:11 -0800