Packing my bags

Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralJan 26th, 2010 | 2 Comments It’s been busy lately. I haven’t written for awhile because I’ve been preparing to take a new job and move to Colorado. I’ve taken a job with Filtrbox who was just acquired by Jive Software. They’re the guys who made the Open Fire XMPP server, but their main product now is enterprise community software that allows large corporations to use Facebook, Twitter, and other social paradigms to communicate. Better than a million emails, that’s for sure. I’m very excited to be working with them. I’ll be working on the same stuff I was with Filtrbox, listening...

Component Architecture, Two Approaches

Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralAug 25th, 2009 | 3 Comments Been thinking about component architecture. Ok, so it’s a regular topic of discussion with Tyler. There’s a lot that goes into it, but at a high-level there seems to be two trains of thought, at least for me, that I’m trying to decide between: building for the component creator, or building for the component user. I’d like to discuss these two and round it up with the pros and cons. Maybe I’ll settle on one by that point. Component Creator The component creator wants legos. He wants the pieces he can build components with easily (when I say “he” I mean...

The Response Pattern

Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralAug 21st, 2009 | 4 Comments I don’t presume to place myself at the status of GoF or Martin Fowler, but I came up with a concept that was then improved upon by my twin brother, Tyler, which I feel could stand to be called a pattern. I may not be the first one to do this, but if I am, then it really shouldn’t be called a pattern since design patterns are observable patterns found in a lot of code that can be documented and generalized. I apologize in advance if it should not hold “pattern” status, but I think it is worth discussing, so please be kind. It’s pretty simple in concept, and has turned...

Best Show I’ve Seen

Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralJul 31st, 2009 | 1 Comment Just wanted to let you know about a show I’ve fallen in love with. I’ve seen the commercials and thought it might be interesting to watch, but never got around to it. Once I saw a few episodes I was totally hooked. A couple of weeks ago I watched two seasons of NBC’s Chuck within 48 hours. I has become my favorite TV series followed by The Office and Lost, and I can’t wait for season 3 to air next March. You can watch all 13 episodes from season 1 starting with the pilot on Warner Bros website. The second season has only about half of its 22 episodes online at nbc.com or...

Flight Framework at 360|Flex!

Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralMay 15th, 2009 | No Comments Another reason to attend 360|Flex is the Flight Framework will be there. We’ll be doing a workshop-style presentation Tuesday on getting started with Flight. Hope to see you there!

Sweet Gumbo/Spark interfaces

Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralMay 1st, 2009 | No Comments Hooray for the Flex team! They’re coding to interfaces. I’ve been looking through the source of recent Flex 4 code and I have to say, I’m getting excited to use this stuff. Here are a few of the things I’ve found with just a few minutes of going through their code: IDeferredContentOwner – The current version of Flex has something like this, but much more complex. This interface makes sense, and simply allows the deferred creation of its children when they are needed (such as a ViewStack in the current Flex). Just a couple of properties and it allows the component to...