Monthly Archives: May 2007

This post is a follow-up to my post last week were I noted some of my initial reactions to the Cairngorm Framework.
When I look at the overview diagram of Cairngorm, I just keep hearing Eddie Vedder exasperatedly saying, “… It just doesn’t feel like we have evolved at all – in 20 years…” [...] Continue reading →

I have been looking at the Cairngorm Flex Application Framework. Cairngorm is a MVC framework implemented in ActionScript 3.0 to support development in Flex.

As a Java developer, I have quite a bit of exposure to the MVC pattern, and I definitely want to have a healthy Separation of Concerns (SoC) within [...] Continue reading →

I am a bit surprised to find out that ActionScript 3 doesn’t allow me to declare my constructor as private or protected. So much for implementing a true Singleton.
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When it comes to Rich Internet Applications (RIA), I am way behind to some, and way too far out there for others… Oh well!
It is time to completely embrace the RIA model and put to bed the old Request/Response type model of building web applications. My conclusion is simple, no longer do we [...] Continue reading →