The Flex Show - Episode 41: Universal Mind Cairngorm Extensions w/ Thomas Burleson

Posted At : April 9, 2008 7:00 AM | Posted By : Jeffry Houser
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We went a little long this time, but couldn't find a place to cut that made sense, so you get an extra long interview with Thomas Burleson a Principal Architect at Universal mind. We chat about Cairngorm and the Universal Mind Cairngorm extensions

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My sincere apologizes for mis-pronouncing Alistair Mcleod's name.

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/200...

I had a completely mind blank... which is not an excuse but a rationale for the faux pas.
Steven Webster, Alistair Mcleod, Peter Martin, and others have all provide fantastic contributions to the community.

# Posted By Thomas Burleson | 4/9/08 10:49 AM

I have a question - if your commands can handle multiple events how do your responder methods on the command know which server response it may be handling - it seems to me this is handling in switch statements what is handled across several concrete classes in a typical Cairngorm paradigm

# Posted By Eric | 4/9/08 4:32 PM

That was a really nice talk , and explanations were really detailed :) look forward to a new podcast related to Cairngorm by Thomas Burleson, he seems really passionate about the MVC paradigm using Cairngorm.

# Posted By Francesco Bongiovanni | 4/10/08 9:04 AM

Eric,

I don't actually have the answer to that one. ;) Maybe Thomas can chime in.

Francesco,

What else about Cairngorm would you like to see covered? We try to keep a variation of topics and interviewees; so it is unlikely we'll have Thomas back on to talk about Cairngorm again in the near term.

# Posted By Jeffry Houser | 4/10/08 9:23 AM

Great podcast and very timely. I'm a Java guy that just started using Flex a couple of months ago. Within a week of using Cairngorm I began running into issues that the UM extensions address. I can't wait to give them a try. Thanks for open sourcing!

The only question I wish that was covered was Thomas' comparison of Cairngrom vs. Pure MVC or other competitive frameworks out there. Any thoughts you'd like to share Thomas?

# Posted By Jeff Bailey | 4/10/08 12:17 PM

Jeff,

Have you listened to our interview with Cliff Hall about PureMVC?

http://www.theflexshow.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/3...

I don't think we had Thomas compare the two frameworks. Would you be interested in a framework show-down type of episode?

# Posted By Jeffry Houser | 4/10/08 12:37 PM

Wonderful.

Just this second finished listening and am about to go for a second run through.

We've been using Cairngorm for the past 12 months and agree with many of the issues mentioned.

We're now considering re-factoring our latest app with is only 20% into development (although, that 20% accounts for 5 months of code!), even so I still think it would be worth giving this some serious consideration.

we were in fact about to write a central error catching class just as mentioned. we'd been worrying about the fault method of our delegate responder (which sits in the command) doing just what you discussed.

I really wished we'd started with these extensions 6 months ago.

I think i've a head-ache coming on!

thanks again. could have listened to him talking for hours.

cheers guys

# Posted By Glenn Williams | 4/10/08 3:04 PM

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