Every entrepreneur needs to walk away from a few smoking craters. It builds character and informs the next endeavor. In that spirit, we offer this post-mortem of our Zarqon Active License Control System.
In early 2009, the future of Adobe Flex and Air was bright. The platform had matured, and the possibility of a single codebase for desktop, mobile, ...
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When it comes to creating truly stunning presentations, few companies have a pedigree as rich as Manhattan-based Sales Graphics.
Don’t let the unassuming name fool you – their diverse client base reads like a Who’s Who of the Broadcast, Financial Services, and Publishing industries. So why do heavy hitters like A&E, AMC, HBO, Dish TV, NBC Universal, Playboy, American Express, Ferrari, ...
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From Startup to Mastery, We Wrote the Book on PureMVC
Futurescale is pleased to announce the publication of ActionScript Developer’s Guide to PureMVC by O’Reilly Media.
Written by Cliff Hall, Futurescale’s founder and CEO, this book teaches the fundamentals of development with PureMVC, the popular open source framework for developing maintainable applications with a Model-View-Controller architecture, in the context of a complete ...
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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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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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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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