All work and no play makes for an extremely dull developer.
The code for this project has been posted to GitHub. It’s a great way to learn PureMVC and the PureMVC State Machine Utility.
In 2011, RIM, makers of ...
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One of the most important tenets of Object Oriented Programming is loose-coupling. This is the idea that entities within a system should have as little ‘knowledge’ of each other as possible.
We achieve this by layering other concepts such as encapsulation, interfaces, and schema-based messaging. Loose-coupling is important because it leads to more maintainable, and reusable code. But ...
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When Avtec Systems was awarded the contract to develop a Common Data Link Waveform Compliance Tester for the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC), they settled on Adobe Flex for the user interface.
Futurescale was in turn chosen by Avtec to build the GUI for the CWCT, to be used by JITC for verifying standard CDL waveform interoperability between candidate ...
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Several months ago we encountered a patch of roughness in the access to our 90+ ports, demos and utilities. As you may recall, CVSDude upgraded their systems to a later version of Trac which has a different templating engine. This broke much of the functionality of the PureMVC Manifold sites.
And though the templates ...
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Learning the Basic Concepts Behind PureMVC Just Got a Lot Easier
To serve the educational needs of developers and companies evaluating or using the PureMVC framework, Futurescale has launched a new site called PureMVC TV.
The presentations are short, introductory slideshows, narrated by Futurescale founder and PureMVC architect Cliff Hall. These are high-level discussions of the framework and ...
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Adobe MAX attendees (or anyone in San Francisco tonight), who are interested in learning more about the PureMVC framework are invited to attend a special presentation at the offices of the digital agency Organic, Inc. The talk will be held at their offices, just a few blocks (walking distance) from the conference.
I’ll be delivering a framework overview followed by a Q & A session that can dive as deep ...
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Recently I was contacted by Brendan Lee of Ribbit, who wanted to contribute some space for a PureMVC presence at Adobe Max this year. They have a meeting room available as part of their package at the conference, but there are a few hitches.
First it’s tiny; 10′ x 10′.
Second, it’s located a block away from the actual conference ...
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Cliff Hall, Futurescale’s founder and CEO, will be delivering a talk called Building Pyramids out of Bits: Thoughts on Writing Future-proof Software.
The <HEAD> Web Conference is a unique conference where the attendees and speakers all meet online rather than get on a plane, fly to another city, rent a hotel, and generally go to a lot of bother. There’s even ...
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The easy way to keep track of what’s in your pantry, what you need, and where to get it.
In our house, grocery shopping is an ordeal. We have to visit multiple grocery stores to get all the items we want to keep in stock. And keeping track of what we need at any given time is tough. But years ago, I ...
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Support for Robust Modular PureMVC Applications has Arrived
Continuing in its commitment to provide the development community with the tools necessary to achieve highly robust and scalable enterprise applications, Futurescale today announced the production release of the MultiCore Version of its popular open source PureMVC Framework.
In addition to providing a scalable solution for application development that taps the potential of modular ...
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