FlashApe

mxna is now redirecting to http://feeds.adobe.com. It’s running pretty nice now, hopefully it stays this way.

I just heard about the new Flex framework Mate (pronounced ma-tay) from asfusion. After spending some time going through their site I gotta say I am VERY impressed, both by the framework itself, and the documentation they have put together (considering how many times I’ve been let down by poor documentation in the past, Mate’s is great by comparison) .

The framework is tag-based, easy to follow, and looks like it should be pretty easy for people to pick up. It uses EventMap files which contain EventHandler child tags which describe what to do in response to a certain event….call service, set a property on an object, etc. Some cool things I noticed right off the bat:

• the way their system works, you can use model objects in the Cairgorm style (one ModelLocator singleton) or in the PureMVC style (proxy/”manager” objects managing their data) and it works the same either way.
• Objects can be created and cached for future reference in response to an event
• The framework uses “injector” tags to set/bind properties of one an object to another.

There’s definitely a lot more cool stuff going on in Mate. Go check it out at http://mate.asfusion.com/