I just finished a huge project where I used a design-up-front approach (some would just call it a design approach). If you’re familiar with Alan Cooper’s writings then this’ll sound very familiar, though I didn’t do some of the core requirements of his approach such as developing personas and documenting personas, for example.
Summary: The [...]
Categories: Software Design
Tagged: design, programming
Let me start by providing examples of Flex Framework Frameworks (FFF): Cairngorm, PureMVC (I know, it’s not just Flex), Mate, Swiz. You get the idea. All these frameworks provide ways to deal with Event Handling, Command or Action handling, ease separation of concerns so you can code in MVC, some provide inversion of control, or [...]
Categories: Software Design, flex, technology
Tagged: flex
Think about your current career. Now, think back to an object that you loved that influenced your decision to follow that path. For me it was a Commodore 64 that an uncle owned. Anytime my uncle was away I’d sneak in some programming time, making the machine blink its borders, or animate a smily face [...]
Categories: Software Design, technology
While running the Los Angeles Flex Users Group I got a lot of questions from people about how BlazeDS could fit into their existing infrastructure.
Typically, they will have an application container, such as JBoss, or maybe just a servlet container, like Tomcat, and a SQL backend. Usually MySQL or PostgresSQL. JSPs are [...]
Categories: Software Design, blazeds, flex, java, technology
I read a blog post by Jeff Clavier about Twitter, Microblogging, and when Twitter might go mainstream. I thought, yeah: I publish much more often on Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, and am starting to mess around with Muxtape. So I looked around for a widget for my blog where I could put up my different streams [...]
Categories: Software Design, social web, technology
I was just catching up on my SFist LAist reading and was reading through the comments on a post linking to an LATimes story comparing LA to SF on a green scale. turns out sf wins. Then I saw this comment I thought “Oh no you di’n’t”
i have always promoted the awesomeness [...]
Categories: Los Angeles, Software Design, blazeds, green, opensource, technology
Here’s a quick list of blog posts about the Microsoft Technology Summit 2008 from people who were there. If you have a link to one please send it to me.
Paul Jones:
Don’t pitch me, bro!
The Real Adam’s impression of Open Source at MS:
http://therealadam.com/archive/2008/03/27/open-source-and-research-at-microsoft/
Luis Villa, who managed to quickly dismiss me and others who care about [...]
Categories: Software Design, mts2008, opensource, technology
This is the third day of the Microsoft Technology Summit. I’m thankful it is only a half-day because I’m all .NETted out. That’s just the nature of these types of events; I work with Flex all day, but when I go to Max or 360|Flex, I’m all Flexed out by the end of [...]
Categories: Software Design, mts2008, technology
I thought I’d jot down a couple of things about day 1. I wrote out the details live on the chat over at http://www.chatopica.com/topics/flex/
Microsoft Psychological Distress Mechanism
First, the attendees are a variety of people including enterprise architects at large corporations, popular mainstream bloggers (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog, http://www.davidrecordon.com/) and developers, people working in academia, java and [...]
Categories: Software Design, mts2008, technology
A while back I started working on a project with a friend at UCLA’s MBI which we called the Schneider Suite. The first bit of code I wrote for this was a circular plasmid drawing library for use with python Tkinter. I stopped working on the suite altogether while I started my business [...]
Categories: Software Design, bio, gui, python, technology