New Flash Community Developments: Robotlegs and Signals
I've come to realize that I'm always a bit hesitant to change. I was late to get a cell phone, late to join Facebook, late to join Twitter, and often late to look into developments within the Flash community. Lately I've been trying to change how often I tune into Flash community developments. As of late I've stumbled across two projects that struck my fancy: Robotlegs and Signals. Robotlegs is a lightweight MVCS architecture that is very focused on dependency injection. Signals is the result of Robert Penner's frustration with the Flash Player's native event system. Thus he has created an event system inspired by C# events and signals/aslots in Qt. Both looked like interesting projects so I decided to dive into them further. I'll start with robotlegs.
Why No Love for the Monostate Pattern in ActionScript 3?
A coworker of mine recently introduced me to the monostate pattern. At first I was like "wtf is that?". I had never heard of that pattern before. He is of the opinion that the monostate pattern is far better than the singleton pattern. I had no opinion on the subject because I only assumed singletons are the one and only way to ensure only one instance of an object is created throughout an application.
Anyone Using PureMVC Multicore For Non-Flex Flash Sites/Apps?
Lately I've been experimenting with PureMVC. I'm really curious if it could aid in the development of side projects and even projects at work. In fact, I gave it a go on the project I'm currently on at work right now. All started out well, but then I ran into a dilemma. Basically, if you know anything about PureMVC, a mediator is register for a view component at runtime. Not being a total MVC genius, I figured I'd write some sort of proxy to load a section and register a mediator for the section once it was loaded.