shaun smith

Some little things I enjoy about Ruby: Read more…

It’s pretty easy to link directly to a line of code in your GitHub repo:

robotlegs/robotlegs-framework/blob/master/src/org/robotlegs/core/IContextProvider.as#L16

Don’t do that you naughty sausage! Your codebase will evolve (if all goes well), and line 16 will be replaced by a newer, shinier string of characters. Or, in this case, it’ll point to something that no longer exists.

This, on the other hand, is more likely to stick around to haunt its author (me):

robotlegs/robotlegs-framework/blob/v1.1.2/src/org/robotlegs/core/IContextProvider.as#L16

Select a tag before you link to your fancy code (“Switch Tags” under GitHub‘s “Source” menu).

I recently purchased @unclebobmartin‘s awesome book: Clean Code. What a book! I’m going to echo a sentiment that often ripples through the Twittersphere: If you are a programmer and you haven’t read Clean Code you are doing your fellow programmers (and yourself) a great disservice. Seriously.
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The Robotlegs MVCS implementation was designed to be convenient: quick-n-easy for common use cases. Nothing is free, of course, and that convenience comes at a cost. I want to highlight a few things that can be tweaked to improve performance for applications that really need it. Read more…

Robotlegs AS3 v1.0.0 has been released

A huge big “Thank You” to everyone involved. Let the “utility building” begin!

Robotlegs is an automated dependency injection framework for Flash, Flex and AIR.

I’m currently using a modified version of git-prompt that looks something like this:

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Just a quickie – I cleaned up the Robotliz app a little. In this short vid I walk through the new structure and touch on some light Git/GitHub flows:

The (better, but not awesome) code is over at:

http://github.com/darscan/SillyStockPriceExample/tree/robotlegs

Warning: The style of architecture demonstrated in this video is not sexy. Nor is it in any way recommended. Also, I cheat by eating plenty copy-pasta, and I say “um” a LOT.

I’m still trying to figure about the best way to illustrate the simplicity and flexibility of the Robotlegs framework. In the meantime however, I thought I’d respond to this cool Swiz video by doing the same thing with Robotlegs – except ending up with a modular (as opposed to a static) app, and throwing in some git/GitHub love as a bonus.

I don’t have a nice mic, so I strapped a phone to the side of my head and left myself a really long voicemail. Anyhoo:

You can grab the (terrible) source over at:

http://github.com/darscan/SillyStockPriceExample

RobotLegs AS3 v0.9 (codename ElasticChaos) is up on GitHub:

RobotLegs is nearly at v1.0! Many awesome changes since v0.8, with the most community involvement to date:

http://github.com/robotlegs/robotlegs-framework/commits/v0.9.2

The “Official RobotLegs Framework Repository” has also been moved:

http://github.com/robotlegs/robotlegs-framework

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Help make RobotLegs the cleanest, smallest, most testable, and most kick-ass framework for Flash and Flex ever built – join the discussion group:

http://groups.google.com/group/robotlegs/topics

Or help fill up the Robotlegs Knowledgebase:

http://knowledge.robotlegs.org/