Siavash Ghamaty

Cairngorm is a useful micro architecture for Flex. Its a basic framework on building applications. Many of you have adopted Cairngorm and given it a try in your apps. Here are some useful tips that could help aid in your development.

Constants

Create a constants folder in your apps package contents under com.companyname.applicationname.constants. This folder will hold all your constants in your application. This doesn’t include any event constants, keep those in your event classes. We are talking about your media library, application states, and so forth. This is also a … Continue Reading

The Adobe Cairngorm Site screen shot.

Adobe has finally updated their Cairngorm Open Source Site. Included in their updates, they have added a nice section for tutorials and external documentation. The overall design of the site has gotten a facelift as well.

For those who haven’t used the Cairngorm microarchitecture, give it a try. Personally speaking, it has saved my loads of time in maintenance work.

For a good start, search for a good Cairngorm tutorial. Another great link on Cairngorm, … Continue Reading

Firefox 3 for the Mac

It looks like Adobe or Mozilla fixed some issues with the Flash plugin for Firefox 3 on the Mac, along with adding the “Awesome Bar”. One main issue was disappearing Flash in Firefox 3 where opacity would effect the embed. There is a fix for that particular bug by using a transparent PNG instead of the CSS opacity style. That fix works great, except that IE 6 does not like transparent PNG files, remember to use a PNG fix or … Continue Reading