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Looking for a Beginner's Cairngorm Tutorial?

Posted on Oct 24, 2007

Update: This article has been posted to my site at http://www.remotesynthesis.com/post.cfm/cairngorm-crystallized

I recently published an article in the most recent, Flex-focused Fusion Authority Quarterly Update (Volume 2 Issue 2) titled "Cairngorm Crystallized: Examining the Cairngorm Microarchitecture from a Workflow Perspective" along with my coworker and friend, Michael Corbridge. I found that other Cairngorm tutorials often got overly focused on the why rather than the how. Personally, I have found that the why only becomes clear with the doing. Therefore, the focus of this article is on covering how to use Cairngorm to develop your project rather than on explaining the patterns it implements. Hopefully, this will be useful for anyone interested in beginning with the framework. If you have read the article, feel free to post any comments or questions here.

Comments

Tom Ortega also has an article showing an app as it evolves from non-Cairngorm, to Cairngorm. Probably a great addition to your article for those new to or investigating cairngorm.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/graduating_pt1.html

Posted By John W / Posted on 10/24/2007 at 8:29 AM

Hi Brian,

I have that issue of FAQU and it says I can download the files to follow along from ftp://www.fusionauthority.com but I don't have a username or password...

do you have the files posted somewhere else for download?

Thanks for all you do for the community!
Carrie

Posted By Carrie / Posted on 12/04/2007 at 12:17 PM

We've put the code from Fusion Authority Quarterly Update Vol. 2 Issue 2 online in an accessible directory, so that anyone who has the issue can follow along with the code examples:

http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly/code/vol2issue2/

Sorry for missing this post until now... Hope that helps!

Judith Dinowitz
Editor-in-Chief
Fusion Authority Online and
Fusion Authority Quarterly Update
http://www.fusionauthority.com/
http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly/

Posted By Judith Dinowitz / Posted on 12/29/2007 at 9:05 PM

Am I missing something. Is this article only available in Print? Did I just time warp back to 1981?

Posted By Andrew / Posted on 05/06/2008 at 9:09 AM

Actually, it's available in PDF to all subscribers and for separate purchase. As I understand that you are from Adobe, I'll send you access to the PDF.

Warping back to 1981 is a good thing, as the music was better. :)

Judith Dinowitz
Editor-in-Chief
Fusion Authority Online and
The Fusion Authority Quarterly Update
http://www.fusionauthority.com/
http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly/

Posted By Judith Dinowitz / Posted on 05/06/2008 at 9:28 AM

Hi,

Where is the tutorial (pdf) available for purchase?

Thanks.

Posted By Scott / Posted on 07/07/2008 at 12:30 PM

Scott,

You can purchase that PDF at:

https://secure.houseoffusion.com/pdfs.cfm?additem=50

To see the table of contents of that issue, go to:

https://secure.houseoffusion.com/Vol2Issue2.cfm

And of course you can find out more about that magazine at:

http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly/

We are also doing a new journal on Flex called Flex Authority. Find out more about that at
http://www.flex-authority.com.

Judith Dinowitz
Group Editor-in-Chief
The House of Fusion Technical Journals
Fusion Authority Quarterly Update and Flex Authority
http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly/
http://www.flex-authority.com

Posted By Judith Dinowitz / Posted on 07/08/2008 at 8:38 AM