Category Archives: Historic

I haven’t been very active with writing for InfoQ.com lately. My lack of activity has been primarily due to time constraints, but has also been because I have been a bit bored with the recent RIA news. So, I was excited to get ‘back in the saddle’ with a post on the release [...] Continue reading →

Adobe has published an article that Ryan Knight and myself wrote up a few months ago. It gives a very quick overview of securing the server side of Flex applications that using Spring BlazeDS Integration, and then it introduces using our Chimp project to secure the client by doing things like role based filter [...] Continue reading →

In part one, I introduced some of the things that I believe convolute the Flex third party framework space  – primarily the influence of MVC.  The history around this pattern, particularly in the Java world, has allowed frameworks to gain mindshare that do little but help enforce the pattern.  This post is about bringing the [...] Continue reading →

I just finished up a post on HTML 5 and Flash for InfoQ.com. The news post just covers the conversation happening in the community(s) (not my opinion). I am glad browser standards are finally evolving, and think all developers will benefit from the advancements. Being a Flex developer, I have obviously embraced [...] Continue reading →

Here at Gorilla Logic, we are pretty excited about Adobe’s announcement that LiveCycle Data Services 3 beta is now available. The next version of LCDS includes advanced modeling features that look poised to bring true model driven development to Flex developers. Since Gorilla Logic started with the mission of build a model driven [...] Continue reading →

In the past, I have reviewed a number of the popular frameworks commonly used with Adobe Flex (Flight, Clear Toolkit, Cairngorm, PureMVC, Mate, and Swiz).  At Gorilla Logic, we love to debate the merits of each of these frameworks and the MVC pattern in general.  As an enterprise software development shop, we love architectural things [...] Continue reading →