As I wrote in an early post about the FITC Conference, there were several speakers invited to hold different sessions. But one in particular caught my attention. The presentation about Gaia Framework, an open-source front-end Flash Framework for AS3 and AS2. The introductory was held by the creator Steven Sacks.
In Flex development field there are several helpful frameworks that are worth working with and each of them brings different features that are pliable to our project requests. A framework that captured my attention lately is Mate. So I did some digging and found out more about this project. Let’s see briefly what we should know.
As of late I started to do some research and make a list of the most popular open-source frameworks used in Flash/Flex/AIR development. But, unlike my previous posts, today I’m writing about a far more general framework: PureMVC.
In time of continuous development for software applications, where the Internet evolves every second as we speak, open source software and applications are a common thing for every developer, either giant or small. And, in order to maintain its position as a giant software producer, Adobe is finally adopting this strategy by releasing two new flash technologies under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). According to the press release, they are aimed especially towards source initiatives for developers, media companies and publishers.
Surfing the internet I found several good looking flash websites developed with Gaia Framework. So I decided to write a briefly post about this awesome product. For those who want to find out more about this flash framework check out the Gaia website.
Hemlock is a new web development framework, focused on allowing easy development of real-time, many-to-many apps. Hemlock follows the inspiration of Ruby web frameworks like Rails and Merb.