Discovering PureMVC, and scaling the learning curve
Background
A while back I began work on a personal project which would involve me finally getting to grips with Flex, Django and XML-RPC. I’ve been using Actionscript 3.0 for quite a while, but my experience with Flex had been relatively minimal. After getting past the initial “What the hell actually is Flex?” thing I spent some time trying to learn the basics.
I started off by going through the Flex Builder tutorials, built the sample application featured in Flex 3 – Training from the Source , signed up for the Flexcoders mailing list and even built a couple of little apps to help me automate some fairly dull database maintenance I’d been putting off. But at that point I’d never done any real work with Flex, and it quickly became obvious that I wasn’t sure where to begin when it came to structuring a fairly large application.
I’d read a bit about the various frameworks available for Flash and Flex, but I’d always kind of written them off as not applicable for me. I had my own way of doing things which, up until now, had always worked well for me and I saw no reason to change. This time, things were a little different, and I decided that it might be time to revisit them.
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Tags: Flex, Frameworks, PureMVC