Professional Cairngorm Ebook
Take advantage of Cairngorm, one of the leading Flex frameworks for building Rich Internet Applications (RIA) Cairngorm is a framework that encourages best practices for RIA development. It is the most popular and widely deployed Flex framework, yet very few books provide the depth and detail necessary to thoroughly understand and utilize it.
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This helpful resource fills that void by going beyond the basics of Cairngorm and showing you the details behind its design. Using a full-scale project throughout the book, the author shows you Cairngorm in a real-world situation. You'll examine the various parts of the framework and what those parts are designed to accomplish, plus you'll learn how to implement each of the individual parts to create a complete project. Offers hard-to-find coverage of Cairngorm, the popular framework used for RIA development. Features a real-world case throughout the book to walk you through the process of using Cairngorm in a large-scale project.
Explains the details behind Cairngorm and how you can best take advantage of this framework With this resource, you'll get step-by-step guidance on how to best take advantage of all that Cairngorm has to offer.
This is a review of the book. When describing his motivations for writing this book the author tells a story about experience with Flex/AS3 development, but none of it using Cairngorm, then he had a job interview. And in typical fashion, when he answered no to the “cairngorm experience” question, the interviewer basically said that if you have not used “Cairngorm” you don’t know anything about Flex/AS3.
This is a side rant, but I can relate to this guy as I have done about a year and a half of pretty serious AS3 development without Cairngorm, and after having read this book, I really don’t see why Cairngorm is such a major “must know” AS3/Flex MVC framework. The author does a good job covering the history of this framework, and all said and done, it sounds likes some flash developers originally threw the framework together then Adobe Consulting threw its official “stamp of approval” on it, and there you go. Everyone must learn Cairngorm. So that said, just take a look at Chapter 3, which describes the Cairngorm’s “ServiceLocator”. Wow, if that does not seem like an overly convoluted set of classes and interfaces just to lookup HTTP/WS/RMI services, then I am not sure what it is.
Cairngorm Skiing
This is a decent book, and the author is correct that for a newcomer to Cairngorm, there is not a ton of very good documentation out there for those starting with this framework. The author does a fairly good job of presenting the framework and how it works in a simple straightforward approach. Roughly the first 1/2 of the book is dedicated to discussing the inner working of the major Cairngorm players, the last 1/2 of the book covers a detailed step by step case study (blog app) followed by good coverage of the communities Cairngorm complaints, expert tips and 3rd party extensions. Complaints about this book: First off I felt like the author may have been rehashing a lot of the material that is already out there, given the many references to official docs and other resources that were cited.
The second complaint is the horrible formatting of the code samples. The wrapping of code lines is awful and so is the spacing between methods etc. Very hard to read and they could have done a better job with that. Overall: Do you need to learn Cairngorm in about a day? Get this book. Skill levels/Audience: Targeted towards people with zero Cairngorm experience, but intermediate to advanced AS3/Flex experience.
Cairngorm Jewelry
Backgrounds with other MVC frameworks is helpful in understanding the material. This book is NOT for people brand new to Flex/AS3. FYI, last year I played around with PureMVC, and this year (2010) after reading this book, I am going to make an effort to do at least one or two projects using Cairngorm. Lets see how it goes and I will report back!