Re: Flex 5 UIComponent - Behavior Pattern

2012-01-26 Thread Wael Jammal
I agree with this, Flex 3 and Flex 4 should be kept apart and in my view both moving to Apache and starting a fresh is as good as time as any to trim away the fat as it's something I believe will be harder once you release a build that people actually start using then you are stuck maintaining that

Re: Flex 5 UIComponent - Behavior Pattern

2012-01-23 Thread Wael Jammal
It would be great if it was a blank slate without backwards compatibility worries. I for one don't mind just using 4.6 and fixing bugs but for a new project I could see many people being happy upgrading to a fresh new framework where lessons from the past few years have been applied without the blo

Re: Flex 5 UIComponent - Behavior Pattern

2012-01-23 Thread Wael Jammal
Sorry for the double post, for some reason Outlook sent the email even though I didn't hit the send button! Wael On 23/01/2012 11:37, "Wael Jammal" wrote: >+1 for this, I can think of many cool things to implement in my framework >using Behaviours. > >wael > >

Re: Flex 5 UIComponent - Behavior Pattern

2012-01-23 Thread Wael Jammal
+1 for this, I can think of many cool things to implement in my framework using Behaviours. wael On 23/01/2012 11:01, "Bogdan DINU" wrote: >Thank you for your input Haykel! I'm very pleased to hear that it worked >well for you and you're happy with the results. > >On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:55

Re: Flex 5 UIComponent - Behavior Pattern

2012-01-23 Thread Wael Jammal
+1 to this as well, would open up many new doors for those like me who enjoy working on their frameworks :) Wael On 23/01/2012 11:01, "Bogdan DINU" wrote: >Thank you for your input Haykel! I'm very pleased to hear that it worked >well for you and you're happy with the results. > >On Mon, Jan 23

Re: Where should people ask basic development questions?

2012-01-11 Thread Wael Jammal
I would be happy to contribute a forum to the community, I have several dedicated servers I could run it on one of them and give admin access to the forums/db to selected contributors. Wael On 11/01/2012 09:51, "Peter Elst" wrote: >> Stackoverflow might actually be the preferred platform, no? >

Re: Flex Usage Statistics

2012-01-10 Thread Wael Jammal
ng my framework for current clients I bet I would loose interest in it if no one used it anymore :(. Just a suggestion anyway. Wael On 10/01/2012 17:35, "Sebastian Mohr" wrote: >@Wael Jammal > >It's great to see your interest adding more >valueable data to my initia

Re: Did Flex lost contact to its investors?

2012-01-10 Thread Wael Jammal
Yeah I was getting 2+ calls a day for months, I haven't had a call in quite some time now. Only for C#, Java, PHP, Mobile etc. It's bloody quiet out there in the Flex world, it feels like companies have gone in to maintenance mode but no new projects are starting up. Wael On 10/01/2012 16:29, "S

Re: Flex Usage Statistics

2012-01-09 Thread Wael Jammal
How do you get an entry on that list? I must have missed this. I would like to add my own. Thanks On 09/01/2012 01:25, "Sebastian Mohr" wrote: >Oh ... I see! > >I thought I caught this case with this answer: > >"I have developed my own MVC Microarchitecture(s)" > >But you are right ... I should

Re: Flex modularity through composition and interfaces (Dependency Injection)

2012-01-06 Thread Wael Jammal
ke in Java then that would solve another big issue. Wael Jammal RS New Media http://www.bojinx.co.uk On 06/01/2012 04:23, "Tink" wrote: >On 6 Jan 2012, at 00:12, Douglas Arthur wrote: >> >> The one problem I have with Metadata is when doing a code refactor, >&g

Re: Flex modularity through composition and interfaces (Dependency Injection)

2012-01-05 Thread Wael Jammal
Why not provide a low level API like you say, making MetaData first class and improving reflection to work more like it does in Java? Json and XML are just too slow compared to native reflection, I and many others have built our own DI frameworks docs.bojinx.co.uk for exa