[Golist] PureMVC

[Donovan Adams]

I think Gaia is very cool, impressive and very useful. However I feel like it sorta leans towards a specific need. It looks great for deploying a site if you have an incredibly short launch date, or you are looking for something with plug and play ease, but it doesn't neccesarily scream "development framework" to me. More like a complete site generating tool/system for rapid depoloyment. Gaia definitely uses the usual MVC patterns. Observer (GaiaHQ), Semaphores for limiting signals (Event Hijacking). Builds projects similar to the way ANT builds projects, etc.

Gaia does everything you would find yourself doing manually. Upside is that it saves you the work if you don't have existing patterns/utilites in place. The downside (IMHO) is you're locked into an entire site architecture for all of your development that is generated more or less by the click of a button. Granted...  I think that's awesome as long as that's what you are looking for. My hat goes off to Steven for the level of thought and the interface Gaia provides for generating projects. He's made standards and preactices very accessible to a large group of poeple with Gaia.

I agree that PureMVC is a bit daunting, but like GO, it's geared towards what you layer on top of it. Bit of a learning curve like with anything else. I have yet to use it in a project, but I was doing some research on it and other MVC frameworks.  I wound up starting on my own framework, but PureMVC seems like something you could easily port over under most MVC frameworks. It's good in the sense that it is not specific to Flex like Cairngorm, it's very powerful, and it has a number of other projects linked to it.

Sorry for the slightly off topic rambling!  I've been in MVC mode myself;)  more like S&MVC

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Hi Chris,
Have you looked in to the http://www.gaiaflashframework.com/ ?
I find it a little more inviting than PureMVC.

--Joel

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Christopher Wilson <chris at gomedia.us> wrote:

Hello everyone!  Moses, you are a champion!!

I've merely started to "get" the right way
to program in actionscript and admittedly have a long road ahead of me. 
This is the first and only programming language that I've studied and it
has taken me many years to reach a point of trying to wrap my head around "design
patterns".  I've recently made the commitment to focus on
PureMVC and GoASAP as my foundational frameworks moving forward with
application development.  That being said, I really need a mentor to lean
on here as I get started on some projects.  We're not building
anything complex like games or huge RIAs - mainly our focus is on common
websites with cool multimedia galleries and cms back-ends.  We also of
course want slick transitions leveraging GoASAP or simply piggy-backing on Donovan
Adam's great work with HydroTween.

 

We're really a design firm first although we staff programmers,
not enough are knee-deep actionscript talent.  If you're available
over the next few months and don't work in a completely opposite
time-zone, I'd love to hear from you.  I should hopefully not
consume too much of anyone's time - maybe a handful of hours a
week.  Let me know your rates and how you'd be willing to
collaborate.  Ideally we'd share an SVN on a job and you'd
basically go through, help me with any shortfalls and steer me in the right
direction.

 

Thank you very much for your time, it is greatly
appreciated.  I hope to hear from some comrades soon.

 

Best,

 

Christopher "Wilson" Wilson

chris at gomedia.us

Website Engineer

 

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