ColdFusion Matt | 04 May 2008 08:46 am
Mate a Tag-based Event-driven Flex Framework
I’m new to Flex but still enjoyed the Mate framework presentation from Laura at asfusion.com. I know that I need to think ahead of time how I’m going to organize all the events in my application. This could simply be a design pattern. The Mate framework has the idea of an Event Map to organize events in a central location. Larger applications with multiple function sets can have multiple event maps. I like how Mate and the Event Maps are organized. I don’t feel like there would be much of an additional learning curve to start using Mate. It looks pretty lightweight too.
If you’re looking into Flex, Mate is worth a look. The site is well organized and has solid documentation so far. This alpha version of Mate has well written, clear documentation and an api reference. The documentation for users of many frameworks and apps is clearly an afterthought. I really appreciate the Mate team spending time on their docs. Additionally, I’ve enjoyed hacking up the FlickrBook example app to get a good idea for what’s going on with Mate.
on 08 May 2008 at %H:%M 1.Laura said …
Thank you for your comments!
We know that documentation is very important, so it was high on our list. We are still working on it!
on 09 Jul 2008 at %H:%M 2.Mozilla said …
Hi Matt,
Could you share or send by email a FlickBook.zip archive with example? I can’t find it on web while asfusion site is down.
Thanks a lot!
on 09 Jul 2008 at %H:%M 3.Matt said …
Sure, it’s posted here while the site id down:
http://www.usercore.com/de/FlikrBook.zip
on 09 Jul 2008 at %H:%M 4.Mozilla said …
Thank you for this great favor, you’ve just made my day %)
on 08 Sep 2008 at %H:%M 5.jurlan said …
Hi ..
Do any of you know if there’s a mirror available with the mate examples? Since the website is down I’m a bit stuck..
Thanks
on 09 Sep 2008 at %H:%M 6.Matt said …
Hi Jurlan,
It looks like the Mate website is up again. I’ve downloaded fresh copies of the docs, compiled libraries and examples if the site goes down for an extended period again.
-Matt