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Here is an another demo of a Cafe Townsend app using AngularJS and Rails. All JavaScript code is written in CoffeeScript, the CSS code using Sass. That’s just fun-fun-fun!
For a better understanding of Spine.js I have build a port of the Cafe Townsend app, which is a standard for demonstrating ActionScript based MVC frameworks (e.g. Swiz or Mate).
The JavaScript port is written in CoffeeScript using Spine.js and Hem. It uses Eco for templating HTML and Stylus for less CSS.
These days I’m playing around with Node.js and Socket.IO. One of my goal was to push (binary) image data to clients (browser) in real time using WebSockets.
After deciding to port an ActionScript Cafe Townsend example into JavaScript the first step was to build a simple login example.
It is built with Node.js (Express) on server-side and it uses Eco templates to render views on client-side. Most of code is written in CoffeeScript.
It’s a good idea to run Node.js using the latest (stable) version. However, there might be some reasons to downgrade Node.js to a previous version. In my case I needed an older version to test and deploy a simple web app to Heroku (where Node.js v.0.4.7 is running, not the latest v.0.6.5).
If you package an Native Extensions for latest Adobe AIR 3.0 you will have an option for signing it with a certificate as well.
The packaging process of creating ANE (ActionScript Native Extension) files is already well documented (check “Packaging a native extension” at Adobes AIR documentation). However, it’s not easy to find a detailed instruction for signing an ANE file. Maybe because it is optionally… Here are few tips:
Renaun Erickson did a great job to describe the usage of the Flash Builder Burrito plugin for BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR. However, if you have already used Burrito as a plug-in version for Eclipse (and not as a standalone version), it will not find the new installed PlayBook SDK by default. Therefore you have to do a further step “by hand”.
UPDATE [10/31/10]: Example and its full source has been updated using latest commit of Swiz 1.0 RC2.
Cafe Townsend is a well known application to demonstrate any MVC framework for using Flex or ActionScript. There are already ports of Cairngorm, Mate, PureMVC, Spring ActionScript, RobotLegs and now Swiz.
In cooperation with “my partner in crime” Sönke Rohde we have built a Swiz port including unit tests. Check out the following example and its source.
Nochmals vielen Dank, dass Ihr beim heutigen flexughh-Meeting “Wait A Frame! Das Flex 4 Komponenten Model und seinen Life Cycle verstehen.” so zahlreich erschienen seid und auch tapfer bis zum Ende des Vortrages durchgehalten habt 
Es hat großen Spass gemacht!
Hier die versprochenen Slides inkl. Source Code.
For an upcoming Flex 4 training I do need a good example for using Mate framework. At the moment you will find a lot of examples on Mate’s official website or at the project called “mate-examples” at Google Code. But it seems that there is not any Flex 4 example available.
Anyway, I just ported the current Cafe Townsend example (Flex 3) created by Laura Arguello to Flex 4.