Personal & Professional Blog of T. Scot Clausing // Adobe Flex Consultant in Nashville, TN
I’ll be finishing the second half of a Cairngorm series tonight. The topic is “Commands, Responders, Delegates and the ServiceLocator - Getting data into a Cairngorm application.” This should be a relatively short presentation compared to the last one 
Also tonight - Andy Matthews of DealerSkins will be showing off his latest work in AIR with HTML, jQuery and BlazeDS. Hope you can make it!
I will be presenting at the 615Flex user group meeting (Nashville, TN) on March 11, 2008. This presentation will cover the fundamental concepts needed to begin using Cairngorm to build Flex applications with the Model View Controller pattern. The presentation should last around an hour with the following agenda:
1) What is Cairngorm?
2) Why use a MVC framework like Cairngorm?
3) How is the MVC pattern carried out in a Flex + Cairngorm application?
- Model: Role of the ModelLocator & Model Objects
- View: Role of View Components & Event Objects
- Controller: Role of the FrontController & Command Objects
4) Build an example Flex + Cairngorm app from scratch w/ group input
5) Practical tips going forward
If you plan to attend, please let me know if you have any specific interests in the topic or questions you would like answers or examples for. If MVC is a new concept or if you’re new to AS3 (or if you’re an expert on both), that would be great to know as well. Feel free to comment on this post or send me an email: tsclausing[at]gmail.com. I would really appreciate your input as I’m putting together material for the presentation.
Update: The presentation went very well but the audio recording was poor. I will be rerecording the presentation in chapters and posting them here in a new series. Next month’s presentation will focus on Delegates and Responders in Cairngorm with additional input on the Model Object.
The Nashville (615 Flex) User Group threw an Adobe sponsored launch party last night for the release of Flex 3 and AIR. Thank you to Aaron West for putting the event together.
Aaron snagged a few of us with his flip video camera answering the “Why Flex? Why AIR? Why CF?” questions for 30onair. You can view the videos on YouTube or view all the videos at the 30onair website.
To view the connect presentation, click here (1 hour 20 min).
Ben Stucki delivered a great presentation last night to the Nashville (615) Flex user group. The topics were Degrafa, an open source declarative graphics framework for Flex and OpenFlux, a component model based on MVC (Model View Controller).
The presentation covers MXML syntax as well as complex CSS component skinning with Degrafa. Some of the examples are available on the Degrafa website at http://samples.degrafa.com.
Ben also shows off some of his work on OpenFlux - which looks very cool. If you are interested, skip to around 55:00 in the presentation. Also, check out Doug’s post titled “We’re not waiting for Flex 4” for even more cool info.
Ben Forta (Adobe’s Senior Technical Evangelist) made a stop in Nashville last night to discuss Flex 3, AIR, LiveCycle Data Services and other related topics. The event was held by the 615 Flex user group and sponsored by Dealer Skins, The Dave Ramsey Show, Shuff’s Music and Aristoworks. Thank you to everyone for putting on a great show.
Speaking of presentations: I will be starting a short series on Cairngorm at the next 615 Flex user group meeting. The topic will be covered from a beginner perspective. Contact me or check out 615Flex.com for more details.
Hi. I'm Scot, an enterprise RIA architect specializing in Flex and AIR, ActionScript, and Java. I work as a consultant and designer in Nashville, TN and contribute to the Nashville Flex User Group, 615 Flex. To get in touch with me, please email tsclausing[at]gmail[dot]com.
