The Cairngorm Plugin is now available as a public beta on opensource.adobe.com. Please click here for details on how to install the plugin.
I am looking for people to join the Cairngorm Plugin project team, if you are interested please email at pmartin@adobe.com.
Enjoy!
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Posted by pmartin at 7:52 AM | Comments (12)
The Cairngorm Plugin has now been launched internally within Adobe Consulting (AC) as a private beta. Eric Garza and myself will be formally launching it as a public beta at our MAX talk.
We also have a cool looking splash screen for the plugin, which was designed by George Neill of AC along with all the other icons (and I thought George was just lazy :)).
In the run up to MAX I will try and blog some more details about the plugin and some up-to-date screens shots, as it has moved on since my earlier sneak peek.
Posted by pmartin at 7:07 PM | Comments (9)
This is very much work in progress, but I thought it was about time I shared my work on the Cairngorm Plugin. At the very least this blog post is intended to give myself a kick to get it finished! I would like to release a Beta version in the next couple of months.
The intention of the first release is to focus on the Front Controller and simplify the addition of new CairngormEvents and their corresponding Commands.
In the mean time I would like to provide some detail on what I have done so far and describe some of my ideas. In the whole the plugin is complete, I have all the moving parts, I just need to bring them together.
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The FlexAntTask will now fail the build if there is an error executing the test suite e.g. a socket timeout. In the past the error was swallowed as the server socket runs in a separate thread - any errors are now passed back to the task and re-thrown.
Attribute |
Description |
Required |
|---|---|---|
| swf | The name of SWF containing the tests to execute. | Yes |
| port | The port to receive the test results on from FlexUnit. The default port is 1024. | No |
| timeout | The time in milliseconds to wait for results from FlexUnit before stopping the building process. The default is 60 seconds. You need to allow enought time for your tests to run as the socket is opended prior to the test execution. | No |
| toDir | The output directory for the test resutlts. The default is the working directory. | No |
| haltonfailure | Stop the build process if a test fails. The default is true. | No |
| failureproperty | The name of the property to set in the event of a failure. The default is 'flexunit.failed''. | No |
| verbose | Causes the flexunit tasks to print status messages. The default is false. | No |
Posted by pmartin at 7:07 PM | Comments (14)
At MAX 2008 North America I will co-presenting Delivery of a Mission-Critical RIA for NATO with Mansour Raad of ESRI.
We will presenting on Tuesday @ 4:30PM in Moscone West 2011 so come along and see us.
The session will take a look at a mission critical application developed for the NATO E-3a Component to plan missions flown by their AWAC aircraft.
The MSS application has been developed using Flex 3 and LiveCycle Data Services and makes heavy use of Data Management Services, which enables users to collaborate on mission planning.
A key element of the MSS application is the world map, which allows users to visualize and work with geo-spatial data. The map has been developed using ESRI's AWX Flex API. The map is driven using managed data so a change to a geo object is immediately pushed to all users currently working with that geo object!
During the session will take an extensive look at the application and how it has been engineered using AWX and LiveCycle Data Services.
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Today I spoke at Scotch on the Rocks. My presentation provided an introduction to Data Management. You can download my slides from here and the demo app from here.
The demo provides 5 applications:
Main - vanilla DataMangement application - it doesn't get any simpler than this :)
Main1 - adds autoCommit="false" and revertChanges()
Main2 - adds createItem()
Main3 - adds deleteItem()
Main4 - adds conflict handling
Thanks to everyone who attended.
Posted by pmartin at 9:39 PM | Comments (0)
A big thank you to Tom Sugden who has added support for Mac OS X.
For more details on how to use FlexUnit for Ant please see my earlier blog. There is also documentation on the flexunit Ant task parameters at the end of this blog. You can download FlexUnit from Adobe Labs.
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Posted by pmartin at 10:45 PM | Comments (5)
At MAX myself an Tom Sugden will be doing a "chalk-and-talk" session. The "chalking" will last for 10-20 minutes. During this time we hope to bang a few heads together to help us answer three questions we have with the design of our client-side model.
We will start by providing you with some context, not much mind you as the clock is ticking. We will quickly move to draw up our design pattern for the managed-model and talk you through the problems it solves.
Posted by pmartin at 10:10 PM | Comments (0)
Adobe Consulting will be holding a series of "chalk and talk" sessions at MAX this year. These include:
The idea behind "chalk and talk" is to reflect what goes on in the "war room" of any project, when the developers gather around the whiteboard to discuss their ideas on how the software will be designed. I am sure these sessions will be fun and informal and gives us all the opportunity to put our ideas forward.
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Today I have been scheduling the sessions I want to see while I am at MAX and I am bitterly disappointed. There is so much good stuff!! It has not been easy to prioritise and I wish we had more time to see more. How about making MAX five days next year? My choices this year are leaning towards AIR, plus a few other things on the side. So here are my top picks for MAX 2007:
I will be speaking "Building Rich Internet Applications Cairngorm and LiveCycle Data Services". If you are interested in LiveCycle Data Services please make sure you also check out Jeff Vroom's talk on "Advanced LiveCycle Data Services For Developers" - I've seen his presentation and it looks good. Be warned though, Jeff is also presenting at the same time as me on the Wednesday (who did the scheduling?), so make sure you make it to his first session on the Tuesday (9:15am). Jeff is "Mr Data Services" to the point I have named a section in my presentation after him. So if you want hear some "Vroomisms" please make sure come along to both our sessions.
My final recommendation would be Steven's Webster's talk on "Design-Led Innovation: Creating Disruptive Experiences". I would go myself, but why go to Chicago to hear Steven speak when I see and hear him most days in Edinburgh (and I have heard it many times before)? Joking aside, this will be an engaging session and Steven will blend Flex, AIR and LiveCycle to show how you can deliver compelling solutions the Adobe Consulting way.
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I am going to be at MAX 2007 in Chicago speaking about our ideas and current thinking that is shaping the future release of Cairngorm "Enterprise". The title of my session is "Building Rich Internet Applications with Cairngorm and LiveCycle Data Services. My session is a case study on an Adobe Consulting project that has used Cairngorm "Enterprise". The session will focus on how we have used Data Management Services and take a look inside Cairngorm "Enterprise". I hope to see you there.
Alistair McLeod will be giving the same presentation in Barcelona.
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