Archive for the 'Software development process' Category

Exploring the Strategy Design Pattern article on InsideRIA

In case you missed it here is a link to the article discussing the Strategy Design Pattern that was recently featured on the O’Reilly, InsideRIA website. Writing the article was a really wonderful experience and I’m extremely excited to have another in the works now. More on that later. Here is a snip of the [...]

Flex best practices – Part 1: Setting up your Flex project article

Here is an article on Flex best practices that I had the extreme pleasure of recently writing for Adobe’s Dev Center. The article explores a number of things you can do to help clarify your Flex development process. The article was a community based effort and input was collected from quite a few prominent Flex, [...]

Mate framework article on Flash Magazine, by: SeanTheFlexGuy

I wanted to post a link to this article that I had the pleasure and opportunity of writing for Flash Magazine about the Mate framework for Flex. Mate is an awesome framework used for developing applications using Adobe Flex. I’d like to thank both Jens from Flash Magazine and Laura from ASFusion for their help [...]

42 tech items for Flex Developers to research, study and watch in 2008

2007 was an AWESOME year for Flex and AIR. 2008 should continue this trend. Here are several different technologies and other items I plan on monitoring going into 2008. Some of these are bleeding edge, others are fundamentals which we’ve been studying for years.
“I’m sure that Flex skills will be one of the hottest skills [...]

Software Development Podcasts: Design Patterns, Unit Testing, Architecture, Refactoring

Here are a number of podcasts regarding software development. All of these topics are valid for Flex development. Enjoy!
Refactoring Pt. 2
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode55-refactoring_pt2.mp3
Design By Contract
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode51-designByContract.mp3
Architecture Patterns (Architecture Pt. 4)
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode41-architecture_pt4.mp3
Refactoring Pt. 1
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode46-refactoring_pt1.mp3
Dynamic Languages for Static Minds
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode49-dynamicLanguages.mp3
Architecture Pt.3
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode30-architecture_pt3.mp3
Architecture Pt. 2
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode25-architecture_pt2.mp3
Development Processes Pt.1
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode24-developmentProcesses_pt1.mp3
Architecture Pt. 1
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode23-architecture_pt1.mp3
Service Oriented Architecture Pt.1
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode27-soa_pt1.mp3

Error Handling
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode7-errorhandling.mp3
Scripting Languages
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode4-scriptingLanguages.mp3
Dependencies
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode2-dependencies.mp3
Patterns
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode1-patterns.mp3
Design Patterns
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ais/AiS2_copy_1.mp3
Web Services
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ais/AiS5.mp3
Unit Testing
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ais/AiS8.mp3
Advanced Unit Testing Techniques
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ais/AiS9.mp3
Database Normalization
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ais/AiS12.mp3
Abstraction
http://ais.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=187077#
Engineering Processes
http://ais.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=196868#
Refactoring
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ais/AiS24.mp3
Scalable Enterprise Applications
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ais/AiS35.mp3