It has been a year since I wrote my first PureMVC vs. Cairngorm post, and in that time I have had the opportunity to build more applications in both frameworks for some pretty diverse organizations. Studying the official Adobe training materials for Cairngorm has also brought some points that I had not previously considered. Perhaps [...]
UPDATE: A revised version of this comparison has been posted; click here to read it.
I have written favorably about both Cairngorm and PureMVC, and this has led a number of people to ask which framework I prefer. Rather than make a blanket statement that one framework is better than the other, it seems more profitable [...]
Cliff Hall has released a new version of PureMVC with various improvements which you can read about here. In conjunction with this release, Cliff has also unveiled the Manifold Project, which provides numerous demos and ports of PureMVC to languages other than ActionScript 3. I am proud to say that I am participating in the [...]
I’ve completed the first iteration of a Flex-on-Rails application, and had a lot of fun doing so. The application is called Index Cards, and it’s designed to be a generic study aid. The metaphor is simple: on one side of the index card, you write the name of a concept that you wish to learn, [...]
After attending my Cairngorm presentation at the 2007 FlexManiacs conference, a co-worker (who happens to be an ardent Rails developer) expressed some concern that Cairngorm seems to be overly complex. He thought that perhaps there was too much abstraction for the sake of abstraction, and mentioned that there seemed to be a lot of small [...]
I’ve been using Cairngorm for well over a year now. Why Cairngorm? Well, it’s not because I think that Cairngorm is the only good way to build Flex apps. It may not even be the best way; at least two reviewers have concluded that Cliff Hall’s PureMVC is the best Flex application framework around. In [...]
