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Getting started with Cairngorm

Bjørn Børresen — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:59:41 +0000

Cairngorm is a framework for creating RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) using Flex. The problem is that it’s pretty fresh, and there is not too much documentation and examples out there yet. So, here’s a list of the stuff I found while searching

The Cairngorm wiki @ Adobe is a nice starting point
AboutNico linked me to this great pdf written by Digimmersion – it’s called “Flex Application Design for Cairngorm” and it’s just incredible how difficult this gem is to find using your favorite search engine … thanks Nico!
AboutNico also has a Cairngorm 2.1 sample application
Renaun has a nice Cairngorm store example with support for 4 different backends (ColdFusion Remoting, AMF3, AMFPHP, AMF0). See it live here
The FlexCoders Yahoo! Users Group currently returns almost 4000 posts about ‘cairngorm’ so that might also turn out the be a great resource.
Adobe has a proof-of-concept application called NoteTag – and it uses Cairngorm – “NoteTag is as a reference application for Flex developers building their own large-scale Flex applications. NoteTag consists of several reusable libraries and over 200 source files, so there’s a wealth of detail in the ZIP file in the Requirements section.” — I haven’t checked it out yet, but from the description it looks very promising.
Cairngormdocs.org – this is also a resource which doesn’t show up in Google searches (I stumbled upon it in this presentation from MAX2006). Not too much there yet, but it could turn out to be a good resource as well.
Over at Cairngormdocs they have a nice simple example all called CafeTownsend (hotlink). Download it and give it a spin. Unlike NoteTag this is very easy to setup.
Developing Flex RIAs with Cairngorm Microarchitecture – Ok for a bird-eye view

Good luck! .. as I said I’m just starting to read up on this myself, so maybe I’ll post some more as I learn

Not everyone welcomes ActionScript3

Bjørn Børresen — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:48:39 +0000

At fotb06 I found out that I love AS3 since it practically looks and feel just like Java. As long as Flex doesn’t start to look and feel just like Swing I’ll be happy .. anyhow, just now I stumbled across this quote on (http://www.bash.org/?top2):

Sigurd: a sprite is anything not static SRElysian: a sprite is a variable object SRElysian: be it 2d or 3d TorMuck: a sprite is a fucking soda TorMuck: you god damn geekass bastards

It was so good I had to share it. And yes, a sprite is an object.

Getting ready for FOTB06

Bjørn Børresen — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:52:11 +0000

The biggest Flash conference to hit the UK for over 6 years kicks off on Monday! The speaker list is absolutely awesome, with the top designers & developers in the world flying in to speak. Add super swag, a couple of parties and you can see that this is an event not to miss! Don’t miss the opportunity to see the latest cutting edge content, software, news, announcements, to get inspired and the important opportunity to network with other attendees from all over the world.

Yes! I’ll be attending Flash on the Beach in Brighton 4-6. December. I’m doing move from Java development to Flash and I think this conference should give me a bit of a push in the right direction

We’re 4 happy guys from Mymixmaster and M&L flying to London on the 1st, and then taking the train to Brighton for the conference on the 4th. Which means it should be a good party in London before the conference.

Are you going to fotb06? What are you going to see? Leave a comment! Maybe we should hook up for professional reasons like having a beer or something