Immerse or Die is a tough-love book review project begun by Canadian author and editor Jefferson Smith. Page Fight, this reader-reaction companion app, is a collaboration between Jefferson and Futurescale. He was the consulting editor for our publishing venture’s first release, and came up with the idea for the project.
Together, ...
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While they’re never exciting to code, it’s a fact that most non-trivial web applications need a user profile management module.
And today, that usually entails implementing OAuth authentication from at least one of the big social networks, since users increasingly choose to place trust with their identity in Facebook over some random website.
Anyone who has plumbed the ...
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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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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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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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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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New Framework Lets Developers Create More Robust, Scalable and Maintainable RIAs
Futurescale today announced the release of PureMVC, a free, open-source framework that enables quick implementation of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) in ActionScript 3.
Built upon proven and time-tested Design Patterns, PureMVC helps the developer to separate the client application into three tiers, (called Model, View and Controller), ...
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