Cairngorm

The Cairngorm Microarchitecture is defined on the Adobe Labs site as “a lightweight yet prescriptive framework for rich Internet application (RIA) development.”

Cairngorm consist of a library (swc file) and a set of patterns that organize the development work. This collection of design patterns (microarchitecture) defines how we should handle the following design challenges:

• Handling user gestures on the client
• Encapsulating business logic and server interactions
• Managing state on the client and representing this state to the user interface.

Anden Solutions reaps the benefits of the Cairngorm architecture especially when developing complex RIA applications with multiple use-cases and views, that require a team of developers. Cairngorm has been very helpful for making those applications easily extensible and manageable.

For more information about Cairngorm visit http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Cairngorm

Mate

Mate framework is defined as “a tag-based, event-driven Flex framework that focuses on giving developers maximum flexibility.”  It has been developed by asfusion and it’s picking up a lot of steam in the Flex development community. Mate is pronounced like the Argentine tea (mah -teh) that gives AndenSolutions’ developers their daily doses of caffeine (actually, mateine).

In a few words, Mate is an MXML-based Flex framework that encourages the use of the MVC architectural pattern.  It consist of a swc file available for download from the asfusion web site.  Like Cairngorm, this framework also addresses event handling, data binding, and asynchronous processing. However, Mate utilizes the built-in event-driven nature of Flex applications instead of building a framework-specific event architecture. This allows for a very lightweight and flexible architecture.

The framework is built around an Event Map. The Event Map is a MXML file(s) that consists of a collection of handlers to respond to incoming events and perform any number of appropriate actions.

Mate also uses the Event Map to support dependency injection. Instead of databinding elements from the Model to the appropriate View component, child-by-child, you let Injectors do the work for you. An Injector will insert the appropriate property into all instances of a particular component, without having to pass it through the component’s parental hierarchy (extract from insideria.com).

For more information about Mate visit http://mate.asfusion.com/

Adobe Flash™ consist of an authoring tool, Adobe Flash Professional, and a player, Adobe Flash Player. Adobe Flash Professional is used to create engaging content such as such as web applications, games and movies, and content for mobile phones. Adobe Flash player is a client application that runs in most common internet browsers. The player is required to show the content created with Flash Professional.
Flash technology is the de-facto standard for adding animations and interactivity to web pages. It is also used to create video games and movies -such as the ones shown in YouTube.

The Flash files, also called “Flash movies” or “Flash games”, have a .swf file extension and may be an object displayed inside a web page, or played in a standalone Flash Player, or incorporated into a Projector, a self-executing Flash application that runs on PCs and Macs. It is estimated that the flash player is installed in over 99% of the desktops that are used for Internet browsing.

Our experience

Anden Solutions has proven experience at developing Flash video games, marketing banners, and web applications. Our staff has been developing flash-based video games and applications for more than 3 years. For more information visit our portfolio sample or contact us.

“ASP.Net is a web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic web sites, web applications and web services.” (wikipedia). This framework is available in several different versions: 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5.

Our experience

Anden Solutions has been using ASP.net in two different ways:

1. creating pure asp.net web applications
2. using the framework to provide server side functionality to Adobe Flex applications, either through web services or in conjunction with WebOrb.

A PHP page usually contains PHP scripts embedded into HTML code. The PHP scripts are not sent directly to a client; instead, they are interpreted and executed by server-side module. This module resides in a web server, such as Apache HTTP Server, the most popular web server in the world. PHP can also be used with a large number of relational database management systems, being MySQL the most commonly used one. Essentially, PHP code in a script can be used to query databases, create images, read and write files, talk to remote servers, or accomplish many other activities.

The server combines the output from the PHP code with the HTML in the script and the result is sent to the user’s Internet browser as a HTML document.

Why PHP?

• As an open source product, PHP is a cost saving alternative to other proprietary architectures. PHP is also well supported by a production team and a committed user community.
• PHP can be run on all the major operating systems with most servers.
• Coding using PHP is a fairly quick activity. PHP is extremely simple while having very advanced features.
• PHP doesn’t require the installation plugins on the client. PHP is executed exclusively by the server.
• PHP lets you implement Web services using packages such as NuSOAP, PHP-SOAP, and PEAR.

Our Experience

Our company uses PHP to develop fully functional and highly interactive web sites to clients across diverse markets. Using our wide range of experience and the latest web development and programming technologies, we excel on managing web projects from project initiation phase to the implementation phase.

For more information on Anden Solutions PHP programming services please contact us

Adobe® Flex™ is an open source cross-platform development framework for creating true enterprise-class Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Flex enables us to create expressive, high-performance applications that run identically on all major browsers and operating systems. Also, since Flex is based on the Adobe Flash platform, the only requirement to run a Flex application is the ubiquitous Flash Player.

Flex applications serve as the presentation layer in a multi-layered model. Flex applications provide a stateful client that retains information while performing different operations so there is no need to load a new web page each time that a request is made.

Flex and the Flash Player provide many useful ways to interact with the business layer residing in the server, allowing data to be sent or loaded without requiring the application to reload the whole view.

Benefits

Flex applications offer the following benefits:

• Flex applications provide almost the the same richness of a desktop application, and do so while running inside of a standard web browser.
• Flex offers seamless integration of the user interface with XML-based data services, including Web Services, XML/HTTP, and RSS.
• Shorter development time than traditional HTML based applications.

Our experience

Anden Solutions has proven experience at developing Flex applications for Fortune 500 clients. We are currently using Adobe Flex version 2.01 and version 3. We can deliver stunning and practical interfaces that integrate seamlessly with back end systems and applications and work with asynchronous XML data services. The use of Flex, combined with our experience and processes, allows us to rapidly deliver outstanding products to the market.