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Thanks Steven!
Believe it or not, I totally understand where you are
coming from.
The only reason I am pushing so hard for this is
two-fold:
1) With the application I am porting over, I know for a
FACT that it will be better to do it the "Cairngorm Way" right off the bat,
versus re-writing it the standard way (whatever that means...) and then
re-coding it yet again with Cairngorm in mind.
2) I actually got 1/2 way through porting my Flash
application over 2 years ago using the first incarnation of Flex Beta with
Cairngorm - and I was LOVING every minute of it - in total AWE of what you and
your associates have accomplished (when you were called iteration II). I
got it working quite well, but since there was no information regarding how much
this platform was going to cost developers at the time of final release (at that
time, it was a TON of money), I decided to stop working on the project until I
knew where things were going.
That whole thing reminded me of the Macromedia Generator
days - where you had to be a millionaire, just to afford the incredible
platform for creating applications in Flash. Then not too much time would
go by, where the whole thing was either completely worthless -OR- ended up being
free - due to another technology becoming available.
As much as I wish that I had stuck it out with Flex 1.5
(since it would be fresh in my mind right now - migrating to 2.0), I just
couldn't justify the time investment back then.
With that said, I just need something SUPER simple - and I
can figure all the rest out on my own. I've been writing Flash Remoting
Apps for a long time - and I do understand how a program should flow. The
learning curve shouldn't be too bad for me, but I just need some clear examples
on some fairly simple concepts.
Thanks for everything, and I hope to get something nailed
down soon -
Mike
P.S. Even if you have any scraps of code, or Beta
versions of tutorials (or sample apps) sitting on your hard drive somewhere, I'd
be happy to see it - as I'd understand that it's not completely finished.
Just something, that uses the new namespace, and that demonstrates when &
where I need to reference the specific classes that make up
Cairngorm. From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Webster Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 2:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Advice finding definitive Cairngorm examples ported for Flex 2.0 Mike,
We hear you .... however, we have to balance getting the
framework available to those that are able to pick it up and run with it, versus
getting nothing to anyone until we have lots of examples.
The 6-part series is purposefully designed to help
elucidate the concepts behind Cairngorm; it is an intention to refresh this with
another article part that brings this all to bear for Cairngorm 2 and Flex 2;
however what's more important is that people understand the Cairngorm concepts,
are comfortable with developing in Flex without Cairngorm, and so are able to
transfer the concepts using the migration documents that we have written from
Cairngorm 0.99 to Cairngorm 2.
We're looking to the community to also share their sample
applications and experiences - hence the Wiki on Adobe Labs - and it has been
great on flexcoders of late to see so many of the community responding with
everything from blog entries, to articles, to sample apps using Cairngorm with
AMFPHP and diagrams that describe how Cairngorm works. We're collating
these examples and will also make them more centrally available through www.adobe.com/go/cairngorm/
We *will* be releasing more samples for Cairngorm 2 -
however in the meantime, if you're having issues, feel free to ask here and
we'll endeavour to help you out. Check out http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/
and follow some of my colleagues blogs in the navigation - in particular Alex
Uhlmann has been posting a number of simple examples, from Login examples
through to a dashboard example, that are build upon Cairngorm
2.
I hope that helps in the interim, and welcome both
suggestions and contributions from the community that has joined us since the
release of Flex 2, with what we could do to make Cairngorm easier for you to
embrace.
But first ... embrace Flex, and get used to building
applications without the microarchitecture. Keep Cairngorm out of your
(general, not directed at Mike) initial learning curve, would be my strongest
advice.
Kindest Regards,
Steven
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