For everyone who couldn’t attend my MAX presentation in Las Vegas, here is the presentation as PDF. Furthermore, I’ve released the complete source code for every effect shown. And here is the Flex 2.0.1 version. Behind the scenes, these effects are using the DistortImage utility from the open source 3D Engine Sandy. Make sure you check out Sandy if you haven’t yet! The effects included are called Flip, CubeRotate, Push, Pop, Door and Gate.

In my last post about the Cairngorm Dashboard example I’ve added a little functionality that allowed a view to react to a state change in the model in order to do something view related like invoking a popup or an effect. I’ve been using the binding approach and that made it very easy and flexible to do. But as I said in my last post, this can have one slight drawback you have to consider.

In the last post about this topic, I’ve added some functionality and another use case to our stock quote application and showcased how a Cairngorm application could scale with focusing on creating model objects. In this post I’ll perform some further refactorings to our model objects. Furthermore, our customer wants us to show a pop-up as soon as a successful stock purchase is being made.

As MAX 2006 in Las Vegas is coming closer and it’s shaping up to be a fascinating conference. I’m talking about Leveraging Flex 2 and Flash Player 9 for Truly Cinematic Experiences and I’d like to give you more information where this will be about, in hope you consider joining my session!

The goal of this series is to demonstrate how you can manage views with investing in your client side business logic. The previous posts (part 1, part 2) were primarily about the infrastructure of a very simple single and multiple view dashboard application. This and the following posts will add further functionality to the application with the indent to demonstrate how your model objects become a focus point of your application.

UPDATE: The Login example has been updated by Neil Webb to Cairngorm 2.2. Check out his series of articles explaining Cairngorm using the Login example. I'd like to give you early access to a new version of the CairngormLogin sample, which we'll ultimately make available on Adobe Labs. We’ve been releasing this very simple example application in earlier versions of Cairngorm alongside the framework code. Intention is to showcase how to get a simple Cairngorm application running.

Earlier this week Cairngorm for Flex 2 has been released. There have been a number of changes compared to Cairngorm for Flex Beta 3. This post intents to explain some of what’s changed, why it changed and how you can handle the changes for migrating your Cairngorm applications to the newest version. Sorry for the delay of this post, but as you might know, there’s a fantastic soccer World Cup in Germany going on these days. ;) 1. Responder interface now optional and typeless.

In the last post I’ve introduced you to the stock market dashboard sample application and how you can create business logic to manage your view. In this post and example, I’ll apply another use case to the sample application. With adding multiple pods to the stock market dashboard, the user can request price quotes independently. Each pod has its own stock market data. I’ll cover how your business logic can be adjusted to manage each view.

There are many ways to update your views when your server- or client side business logic changes. The strategy you find me usually recommending is the ModelLocator strategy, which leverages the Flex binding feature. See Steven Webster's article for more information. Basically, your views bind to properties that are retrieved from your ModelLocator. These properties can be changed from your Commands, other business logic or other views and once changed; all listening views are updated seamlessly.

Hello there, I’m Alex Uhlmann, Consultant at Adobe Consulting. Some people might remember me from AnimationPackage, the open source animation library I’ve developed and still maintain. So, one topic I’ll definitely cover on this blog will be effects and I can’t wait till everything is sorted, so I’ll be able to blog about some awesome cinematic effects using Flex 2. Expect some great stuff coming up in the coming months!