Archive for the 'Software development process' Category
The San Diego Flash Users Group invited me to give a presentation on Flex Best Practices last night. Thanks to everyone who took the time to join the meeting. Thanks to Kyle and Chris for inviting me to present. Also thanks a lot to everyone who provided all the great feedback and questions. Dan made [...]
January 8th, 2009 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Cairngorm, Design Patterns, Flex, Flex 3 Skinning, Flex Best Practices, Flex Builder, Flex Builder 3, Flex Champion, frameworks, General Development Notes, mate, MXML, OOD, OOP, sdfug, Software development process, UML | 3 Comments
Following best practices during the development process can help organize and structure an application. Standardized development provides clarity, stability, longevity and scalability. I worked with several members of the Flex community and the Adobe Flex Team to create this article outlining over 90 best practices for the Flex development process. Thank you to everyone who [...]
December 13th, 2008 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Cairngorm, Design Patterns, Flash Platform, Flex, Flex Builder, Flex Builder 3, MXML, OOP, Software development process, UML | 1 Comment
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 [...]
November 8th, 2008 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Design Patterns, General Development Notes, OOD, OOP, Software development process | No Comments
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, [...]
July 26th, 2008 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Design Patterns, Flash Platform, Flex, Flex Builder, OOP, Software development process | 1 Comment
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 [...]
July 5th, 2008 | Posted in Design Patterns, Flex, frameworks, mate, MXML, OOD, OOP, Software development process | No Comments
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 [...]
December 21st, 2007 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Adobe AIR, AS3 API, Bleeding Edge Flash, Cairngorm, Design Patterns, Flash Platform, Flex, Flex 3 Skinning, Flex API Example, Flex Builder, Flex Builder 3, General Development Notes, OOD, OOP, Software development process, UML | 12 Comments
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 [...]
December 20th, 2007 | Posted in Design Patterns, Flex, General Development Notes, OOD, OOP, Software development process, UML | 2 Comments