shaun smith

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

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Things have been rolling along quite nicely on the RobotLegs front lately. Joel Hooks put together two useful examples, check ‘em out:

• RobotLegs Image Gallery Demo
• RobotLegs and FlexUnit 4

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I’ve just started looking into Parsley: http://www.spicefactory.org/parsley/

First thought: version 2 is exactly what I’ve been trying to build with RobotLegs. Read more…

Want a framework like PureMVC but without Singletons, Service Locators, or casting? Perhaps one with Dependency Injection and Automatic Mediator Registration?

Well, you might enjoy RobotLegs AS3: yet another lightweight micro-architecture for Rich Internet Applications.

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Great news: SmartyPantsIOC, a Dependency Injection framework for Flash and Flex has been released. Check it out here:

http://code.google.com/p/smartypants-ioc/

I guess that means that it’s time for me to release RobotLegs – an MVCS micro-architecture for Rich Internet Applications inspired by PureMVC, Mate and Swiz! But first, I have to write a little demo application for it.. coming soon!

Some Background

I’ve recently switched from using SVN to using Git as my source control management tool of choice. It took a little while to get to grips with, but it rocks!

Git is not an evolution of SVN. It is entirely different. Git is a distributed revision control system – everybody working on a project has their own full copy of the repository and its entire history. Read more…

I’ve been using PureMVC for my Flash/Flex applications for quite a while now, and have generally found it to work quite well. Besides the obviously annoying abundance of boiler-plate code, it does a decent job of separating concerns, and has helped me to build better applications.

Lately, however, I’ve been building an application for which PureMVC has turned out to be a pretty poor fit. The term that some people have used to describe this kind of application is “Document-Based”.

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Just in case you thought that there was a clear cut definition of MVC:

http://ctrl-shift-b.blogspot.com/2007/08/interactive-application-architecture.html

And if you are considering using Cairngorm for your next project, give this a read (especially the comments, all of them):

http://blog.iconara.net/2008/04/13/architectural-atrocities-part-x-cairngorms-model-locator-pattern/

Just came across some great video tutorials on Niel Webb’s Blog:

http://nwebb.co.uk/blog/?page_id=241

Sweet. The Zend_Amf component is out now in the Zend Framework 1.7.0 Preview Release. Thanks Wade!

A useful looking resource here: http://diamondtearz.org/blog/zend_amf-collection/