Posts tagged as 'Swiz'

What project will replace the Flex framework?

In my previous post I discussed the idea that a project might emerge to replace the Flex framework, in a similar manner to Spring replacing EJB in the Java world. Although I am not in a position to predict what that project will be, I did mention some characteristics that I think the project will have. They were

  1. It will start as something simple, with a strong foundation and the potential to grow.
  2. It will have some very strong developers at its core.
  3. It will have at least one project member with an ability to market effectively to the developer community.
  4. It will be open source.
  5. Its roadmap will develop through open discussion with the community.
  6. It will have a very active developer community around it.
  7. It’s probably a project that has already begun.

I can think of three excellent projects that meet most or all of these criteria. Whether any of them will one day replace the flex framework depends on many things, including in two cases whether the developers would even want to do such a thing. Here are the projects…

Posted on 13 April 2010 | 13 comments | continue reading

Frameworks presentation slides

Here are the slides from my frameworks presentation at Flex London User Group last Tuesday, 16 February 2010.

Posted on 19 February 2010 | 9 comments | continue reading

Swiz example project with source

At Flash on the Beach this year, I presented a session on application frameworks. As part of that session, I had planned to show the source for an example application built using each of the four frameworks I covered. When I discovered that as planned my presentation would take three hours to present, I had to cut a lot of content and the example application was one of the items to be cut. But I still have the source for those applications so I’m posting it here today.

Below is the example built using the Swiz application framework. Another four posts will contain the other four versions. All five versions have identical functionality. Right click on the swf to view the source…

Posted on 1 October 2009 | 4 comments | continue reading