Category Archives: Resources

Readme

Have I mentioned that I love GitHub? When you put a readme file into a folder that file is formatted and presented nicely through GitHub’s file browser. For example: https://github.com/visionmedia/uikit Scrolling down a little we can see a nicely formatted readme file.

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Robotlegs – The Book

It’s here! The ActionScript Developer’s Guide to Robotlegs: http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920021216 Written by the amazing @stray_and_ruby and @jhooks

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OS X Git Prompt

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

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RobotLegs Updates, Demos and Unit Testing

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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Parsley: Your Favourite Herb?

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.

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A Nice Eclipse Icon – Suited for Mac OS X

I’ve always found the default Eclipse App Icon to be a bit.. lacking. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only person who feels this way. Occasional quests to find a better icon have usually resulted in disappointment. My latest search lead me to this icon. Not great, but it inspired me to finally sit down and try to create my own. The First Stab Here’s my initial attempt:

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RobotLegs AS3: A DI Driven MVCS Framework for Flash & Flex – Inspired by PureMVC

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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AS3 Dependency Injection Framework SmartyPantsIOC – Released!

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!

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Getting Started with Git on Mac OS X

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.

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Flexible RIA Architecture: PureMVC and Mate

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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