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August 19th, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments

I’m a developer from Cape Town, South Africa. Sometimes I go by the name Darscan Tyrell. Or Arlie Osbeck. You can find some of my code over at github.com/darscan

I’m one half of BoyBlack. We build things. Sometimes.

I spend my days (and nights) learning to program.

  1. shovemedia
    January 28th, 2010 at 18:53 | #1

    I would *love* (pay?) to see a RobotLegs example utilizing multiple Contexts. Is this doable (recommended) without taking the next step to multiple swfs and modules?

    The same is true for the *Maps. Is there a (good) way to swap these out at runtime as part of the application flow? It seems as though you could achieve some very interesting StateMachine patterns if so, but I haven't been able to get my head around it.

  2. January 28th, 2010 at 19:26 | #2

    There are many approaches to the multi-context scenario. Stray has put together some utility classes that you might want to check out:

    http://github.com/Stray/robotlegs-utilities-Mod...

    Swapping framework apparatus at runtime is certainly possible – but it might get tricky as old injections/references will point to old objects (if you know what I mean!). I imagine it would take a little tweaking to get things to work as expected. Another option to look into is using SmartyPants-IoC for DI as it offers “live” injections – a kind of injection/binding hybrid that updates previous injections when their values change.

  3. ored
    April 7th, 2010 at 15:37 | #3

    hey there,
    in one of your video tutorials, you mentioned that flash remoting was a crap format for the web but said you'd mention that in another discussion. Can you elaborate on why using RemoteObject is a crap format for the web?
    i am eagerly learning about other data provider methods (actionscript projects only, not really MXML) besides just parsing XML via HTTPServices. Namely, connecting a Java servlet to flash movie.

  4. April 7th, 2010 at 15:48 | #4

    Hi Ored, it comes down to caching: http://shaun.boyblack.co.za/blog/2009/11/10/rob...

  5. Elaine Odw
    July 29th, 2010 at 09:55 | #5

    Being a parent of a robotleg and a boyblack, how do i parse XML without losing any street cred? Is it doable? How do you spell elefant?

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