New MXNA Reader: Cairngorm 2.2

I have developed a MXNA Reader few days back. I know there are couple of readers available online which are good in their own way. My aim was just to put together some of the best practices for flex development that can help others to learn.

Some of the features:

1. Flex 2.0.1
2. Cairngorm 2.2
3. Aqua Skin by Nahuel Foronda
4. Custom Preloader
5. This reader provides internationalization (I18N) and localization (L10N) support based on gettext.
6. Unit Testing and many more

It’s not ready to upload yet. It still requires little bit of re-factoring. Here are some of the screen shots for the time being :)

Everything about Cairngorm: Samples, Code Generation,Unit Testing

You want to develop a loosely coupled, scalable solution for your next project. One of your colleagues might tell you that Cairngorm (CG) is the way to go. But you found it really scary. Is it really scary?

Dear friend! I can assure you about the simplicity of the Cairngorm micro architecture.

Cairngorm is the collection of some design patterns borrowed from J2EE fraternity. Sounding tough? Hold on!

It’s nothing but some well-known and largely used solution for common problems developers encounter in their day to day job.

Cairngorm is very flexible. Creators of CG encourage you to modify it and use it as per your requirements. You will find yourself using everything or something of CG once you are comfortable with it. You just need to get into it and once you are into it,you will not look back. You will just love it.

Are you ready to get started?

How to and where to start?

I have listed down step by step guide to use those recourses you will find around the flex ecosystem.

Read this interesting post by Steven Webster before you try anyhing with Cairngorm

-Why I think you shouldn’t use Cairngorm

If you still interested and determined to implement Cairngorm in your next project. Have a close look to these diagrams.

Diagram
-Cairngorm Diagram
-Cairngorm Diagram Explorer

Interesting? Want more understanding on CG architecture. Read these six part articles by Steven Webster of Adobe Consulting.

-Six-part article

Now is the time to make your hand dirty with some real coding. Have a look to the below given link. It will give you step by step guideline on how to setup your Cairngorm project. You will also get to see a very basic implementation of CG which is famous by the name of Cairngorm Login Example. Keeping the legacy of Steven, he has also written 3 part articles for beginners.

-Login Example

Need to see more complex implementation. Here are some links for you:

-Cairngorm Store Example Updated to Cairngorm 2.1
-wordweb-visualization-graphs-keywords-from-digg-api
-WebService & Cairngorm 2 Example by Jesse Warden’s
-Some sample code examples on cairngorm

How about generating codes automatically ?

-Cairngen
-Cairngorm code generator

Need to do some Unit Testing?

flexunit_basics
cairngorm-iresponder-async-flexunit
Unit testing Flex with FlexUnit and Cairngorm - The IResponder interface hurdle

I have noticed some promising screenshots in thinkingdigital blog. This guy has got some cool plan on screenshots but not sure it will be ever materialized or not.

- Cairngorm Plugin

Unit testing for Flex and ActionScript 3

I wanted to attend Adobe Evangelist prayank swaroop's presentaion on FlexUnit today but could not make it because of some urgent meeting at work.After returning to home,I have got the link of the recording from Flex India group. That presentation was good.I think in India we are not using unit testing tool extensively for Flex app testing.This presentation will definitely help the fellow Indian developers.

Good initiative prayank!!

I have listed down some of the good resources for Flex unit testing here.

1.Unit testing and Test Driven Development (TDD) for Flex and ActionScript 3.0
2.ActionScript 3 error checking: unit testing recommended

Cairngorm & Flex Unit

here is the link for two open source flex framework

http://www.iterationtwo.com/open_source.html

Cairngorm:: A best-practice technical architecture upon which Rich Internet Applications can be built


Flex Unit:::A framework for unit-testing with which test-driven development, unit-testing and continuous integration of Rich Internet Applications can be performed.