20 Jan

Mate Injectors - brief explanation

in flex, mate

In my continued work with Flex and Mate I've come to understand the model Injectors system pretty well. Initially I struggled trying to understand a few things.
Click "read more" for my simplistic explanation of IOC in Mate.

25 Sep

Mate tutorial - abstracting the business logic/data communications and presentation

in flex, mate, tutorial

As promised, here's an example of the business/presentation abstraction in Mate.

27 Aug

Mate - abstracting the business logic/data communications and presentation

in flex, mate

When I first wrote about Mate vs Cairngorm, the main concern I stated with both was that in any MVC architecture there's little consideration given to splitting out the data/business code from the presentation code.
Here is my solution.

22 Aug

Mate gotcha - events not being picked up by EventMap

in flex, mate

I've been using Mate heavily over the last few weeks and am really enjoying implementing the architecture. However there are a few gotchas that caught me out and I'll write about them here.

06 Aug

Flex microarchitectures - Cairngorm vs Mate

in cairngorm, flex, mate

I've recently been comparing various Flex architectures for managing business logic and server communications. The two main systems I've been looking into are Cairngorm and Mate.

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