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Comment on Adobe Flex Certification Study Materials by joshbuhler.com » Blog Archive » The Important Thing is That I Passed

joshbuhler.com » Blog Archive » The Important Thing is That I Passed — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:15:07 +0000

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Comment on The Bailout Blame Game by Devin

Devin — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:29:26 +0000

I like the way Glenn Beck put it:

“But it’s not capitalism which has been discredited by our current crisis, it’s greed that has been shown to be at the root of our present economic uncertainty, and greed is unfortunately a universal human trait and has demonstrated its reach in socialism, fascism, communism and capitalism. The greed of Wall Street is nothing compared to the greed of our politicians who have continued to expand their power and influence at the expense of their country.”
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/16171/

We all have personal responsibility but too many of us have ignored that responsibility in the past and based our actions on greed (government, lenders, borrowers, etc). The real problem with the bailout is that the government has removed greed’s balancing elements from the market – fear and responsibility. Now people will act even greedier, without fear, with the hope that the government will bail them out. What a precedence to set. Look at all of the additional companies and states that have asked the government for funds since the bailout was passed. Our government needs to learn and live by principles. This isn’t the end of this downturn, it’s just the beginning.

Comment on The Bailout Blame Game by DAD

DAD — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:11:24 +0000

Woops! That would be Aryan.

Comment on The Bailout Blame Game by DAD

DAD — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:03:27 +0000

I agree with your basic contention. However, although it would be inaccurate to compare irresponsible borrowers to the Jewish Germans, it may be fairly accurate to compare the irresponsible borrowers to the Arian Germans. They are the ones, mostly good people, who accepted Hitler because he promised them exactly what they wanted. Those people who will accept any carrot the government dangles in front of them, regardless of common sense or moral principles, are the ones who elected Carter and Clinton and will now elect Obama. If those with higher principles don’t stand up against and expose leaders who are pursuing their personal agendas at the expense of our national security, stability and character, they are only perpetuating the decline of our society. And we ain’t seen nothing yet. The scriptures are full of examples and warnings.

Comment on Thank You for Sharing by AaronHardy.com :: For all your Aaron Hardy needs. » Blog Archive » The Bailout Blame Game

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:24:51 +0000

[...] Let me illustrate. If every bank around the country said, “Hey, come on in. You qualify for a gabajillion dollars and here it is! It’s a 30-year mortgage locked in at today’s mortgage rates. Nah, don’t worry about your credit. Here’s the check. Enjoy your new home!” Today’s market, in my view, proves the average American would spend more of that gabajillion dollars than he/she could actually afford. But who’s fault is it? The lender’s fault, of course! How dare they put a gabajillion dollars in front of my nose! Take it or leave it, that’s what’s happened. That’s our society. [...]

Comment on Thank You for Sharing by Aaron Hardy

Aaron Hardy — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:59:45 +0000

As long as it’s free. I’ll write him in on my ballot.

Comment on Thank You for Sharing by Brady White

Brady White — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:41:08 +0000

My buddy Juan Carlos says he’s going to buy us drinks with his social security and pay the rest with his credit card, you in?

Very nice article.

Comment on The Why, What, and Where of Custom AMF Class Adapters by Flex’s Data Transfer Pattern (Class Adapters) « Nate’s Code Vault

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:45:21 +0000

[...] a CakePHP environment that have been carefully outlined in Aaron Hardy’s blog post entitled: The Why, What, and Where of Custom AMF Class Adapters. I have made a few comments as well as some of the other developers at MediaRAIN. Here are some [...]

Comment on The Why, What, and Where of Custom AMF Class Adapters by Nate Ross

Nate Ross — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:12:19 +0000

@Aaron - The reason why it is important for the Flex front-end to remain blissfully ignorant of the back-end is because this conforms to traditional MVC architecture. In the Flex world, Flex’s role in MVC is based on the Data Transfer Object (DTO) approach. In the broad view of things, the Flex front-end is seen as the View. The same thing can be said with a Java JSP front-end, AJAX, Silverlight, or whatever front-end you flavor-of-the-month you are choosing.
Most web applications are structured as three-tiered applications, which, to some extent, can be compared to the Model View Controller (MVC) architectural pattern. The MVC pattern distinguishes three parts in the application : the Model, where the data is gathered, the View, which represents the data from the Model graphically and receives user inputs, and the Controller, which processes the user inputs coming from the View to update the Model.
In the case of a Flex RIA, the Controller can take the form of a Service (or business object) on the application server that reads and updates a Database (the Model) when it receives requests from the Flex application (the View) which, itself, represents the DataBase records to the user.
But the Flex application does not have to care about the details of implementations of the controller. The way it deals with requests and responds to it is definetly in Flex’s not-my-problem realm, exactly like a View does not have to care about what its controller actually does. It just has to know how to communicate with it.
The same advantages for any MVC framework can be applied to a Flex application with any type of back-end application and DB. All of the arguments that Aaron made above support these potential problems solved by a true MVC architecture.
Note that this is from a Java background. I am not terribly familiar with CakePHP, but I know that it is similar to Java’s Hibernate and there have been attempts made to make CakePHP adapt more closely to the Flex front-end. See CakePHP’s AS3 Inflector for example.
I just wanted to further explain my previous post now that I have more time to ponder and reflect on the topic :).

Comment on The Why, What, and Where of Custom AMF Class Adapters by Ellis Elkins

Ellis Elkins — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:46:00 +0000

Just like Aaron posted about how there isn’t one framework for all people and all projects, there isn’t one solution here. There are benefits for each of these implementations.

For Flickr or such places like them it is a good idea to have very general services to cater to many front ends.

I think something that hasn’t really been said directly is that most of the applications that we build here at mediaRAIN aren’t general services. The services that we most commonly design, i.e., for AncestryPress, are not for general use at all, so optimization for specific use is the best idea.

So we need to understand the benefits of each solution and analyze our project to see if we need to go more general or more specific.