Alright, our meeting on March the 11th 2008 was really cool but the Acrobat Connect recording didn’t work out so well, so Scot was kind enough to re-record and break the presentation down into separate videos for us.

At this presentation Scot started us on a series about the fundamentals of using Caingorm and MVC in Flex. I have to admit that this was a bit over my head and I had no desire to learn anything about Cairngorm, but I think once you listen to Scot explain it, I think you will catch on and may beside you would like to  start using this framework as part of your development strategy.

As you sharpen your Development skills you will find that OOP (Object Oriented Programing)  is a much better way to code your applications. You may or may not want to use Cairngorm for this but watching this series should give you a good idea of whether or not you would like to or not.

Check out the first part of Scot’s searies by going to this link. http://blog.tsclausing.com/cairngorm-series

Scot will be continuing his series at the next meeting of April 8th 2008 so brush up for that by watching the first part over the next few weeks.

Next meeting will be presented by Scot Clausing. For more about Scot please visit his blog at blog.tsclausing.com

Acrobat Connect URL will be http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/r83536615/

Cairngorm Fundamentals
MVC Flex applications with Cairngorm

1) What is Cairngorm?
2) Why use a MVC framework like Cairngorm?
3) How is the MVC pattern carried out in a Flex + Cairngorm application?
- Model:Â Role of the ModelLocator & Model Objects
- View:Â Role of View Components & Event Objects
- Controller: Role of the FrontController & Command Objects
4) Build an example Flex + Cairngorm app from scratch w/ group input
5) Practical tips going forward

Meeting will start at 7:00 PM at DealerSkins. Here are the directions.