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slide framework and the zeitgeist

As I've recently started talking to people about Slide, it's becoming clear that none of the ideas are new. Here are some examples of that.

We used to call our Presentation Models "View Delegate", but I found that lots of people were us...

presenting at london flash platform user group

Johannes Nel and myself will be presenting tonight at the London Flash Platform User Group. I will be giving a version of the talk I gave last week in Sydney, about our Flex ap...

Slide framework preview part 2: cascading properties

Slide is view-oriented. Along with the view state management, it recognises that Flex apps are often modular and that these discrete pieces are mostly MXML components...

Slide framework preview part 1: hierarchical view states

The cornerstone of the Slide framework is view state management. Typically, if you have code in a controller, that needs to make a change to the view - for example to...

introducing the Slide framework for Flex at WebDU

In June, I'll be presenting at WebDU in Sydney about Slide, our application framework, which will go open-source about the same time.

Slide is mostly about managi...

new as3-xpath build 0.2.4 released

We just released a new build of the XPath library. It's just a couple of small bugfixes, and tweaks, but if you are using it already, you might like to upd...

mxml syntax proposal for styles and events

Don't you think it's a bit funky that you set styles in exactly the same way that you set a property in MXML? And isn't it a bit confusing that you add an event listener in exactly the same way too? Actually, it's not that confusing. It's prett...