Monthly Archive for October, 2009
Posted by David Tucker
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Since then, several frameworks have been created that were written specifically for Flex – and specifically to solve the problems that occur in Flex development. These frameworks were crafted by Flex developers (as opposed to Java developers who started to work in Flex). Because of this, these frameworks solve problems in a way that makes sense for Flex. My two favorite examples of second generation frameworks (and the two I use on projects currently) are Swiz and Mate.
These two frameworks solve problems in different ways, but they both work well. One of my Universal Mind colleagues, Darron Schall, recently posted some slides that give a comparison of the two frameworks. These slides can hopefully assist those of you evaluating these two frameworks so that you can understand the strengths and weaknesses of each option. Darron is also the first person I heard use the first/second generation framework terminology.
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Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation
and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
What is a wave?
A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.
A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.