shaun smith

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

Warning: This is long and probably VERY boring.. unless you are an AS3 junkie, and you’re interested in so called “lightweight micro-architectural frameworks” for Flash and Flex.

A couple of weeks ago I played around with Mate and Swiz. I already knew a little about Dependency Injection (in theory anyway), but playing with those two frameworks really drove the point home: applications are potentially MUCH easier to write, and much more flexible, when you take advantage of Dependency Injection. Read more…

For the most part, Pijin development has been going pretty well. Maciek came down from London in December and we managed to come up with solutions for most of the tough conceptual challenges that were worrying us. Read more…