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Mate is the new kid on the block in the Flex framework world. It’s an MXML-based Flex framework that - like its colleagues - encourages the use of the MVC architectural pattern. There’s been plenty of buzz around the campfire over Mate. After some investigation it quickly becomes apparent that its popularity is well warranted.

In my last blog post, I discussed a CSS trick I recently discovered. That post spawned a lot of comments, and at one point in the discussion I stated that I felt that just because a technique is popular and has been put forward by one or more resources as best practice, that it doesn't necessarily make that technique better practice than a new practice I (or any developer really) might come up with. The question was asked, "where do best practices come from?"

...I think any developer, consumer, or citizen has the right to put in the research time to study what current practices are and the reasons for them and put forward alternatives that can be considered for adoption as best practices.

Carebear? Carhorn? What? Cairngorm is the Flex Framework with the odd name that’s been around almost since the beginning of Flex. It was created by a company called iteration::two, which went on to become Adobe Consulting’s European practice around the...

In the last installment of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA, we worked on building the Flex view. In this installment we're going to continue looking into the Flex view by examining the search tools in our application.

In this installment of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA we're going to continue building the Flex view. We'll see more of mxml, Flex's layout language, and Flex's powerful binding framework.

In the last installment of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA, we looked at the Cairngorm command. In this installment we're going to have a look at the model locator. Follow along with each stage of development, every Monday on InsideRIA.com.

Join us every Monday for the latest in our follow-along-at-home development series, Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA. This week we're focusing on Cairngorm commands and controllers and where they fit in our development.

Last time we looked at Cairngorm and its role in our application. This installment of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA, we're going to look at Cairngorm’s business delegates and how to set up a service oriented architecture in Flex. Join us every Monday for the next installment in our series: Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA.

In this week's installment of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA we're going to start looking at the Flex service layer of our application, and be introduced to Cairngorm, the Flex micro-architecture that helps simplifiy the complexity of building user interfaces in Flex.