Mate Flex Framework

Theo Hultberg has created an open source project to share examples that use Mate and extensions for Mate.

He has already added a great example called "Document Based" that takes advantage of the new LocalEventMap tag. He has written a walkthrough for his example and more information, all worth reading.

Not only he created the application, showing some key features and best practices, including how to use the Presentation Model pattern, but he also created a set of tests. Those tests cases show how you can test your Flex application, and how Mate makes it easier to write tests because it encourages developers to write decoupled applications.

Thanks to Theo and we hope you find it useful and contribute your own examples.

Posted on October 04, 2008
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Mate will be presented at several user groups in the coming weeks.

San Francisco

Silicon Valley Flex Users Group
11th of September
An Introduction to Mate, a Flex Framework
Presented by: Harry Garland

Munich

Flex User Group Munich
September 16th
Flexentwicklung mit MVC: Teil 1 - Mate Framework
Presented by: Thomas März

Online

Atlanta Flash/Flex User Group and the Flex Meetup Group
September 17th
Introduction to the Mate Flex Framework
Presented by: Laura Arguello

Posted on September 10, 2008
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In the latest episode of The Flex Show podcast, I chat with John and Jeff about Mate.

We went through many topics: why we started Mate, what it is, what its goals are, and more.

I recommend to subscribe to their podcast, but the MP3 file can also be downloaded from their site (I am linking to the file directly because it is sometimes hard to find in their site).

It's half an hour long. Enjoy!

Posted on July 02, 2008
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The latest ColdFusion Weekly podcast episode was a Flex Frameworks Roundtable. I'd like to thank Matt Woodward for including Mate in the mix and inviting me to talk about it.

It was a very interesting discussion, so check it out!

Posted on April 25, 2008
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Formerly Flex Maniacs, WebManiacs conference covers Flex, ColdFusion and AIR. I'll be giving the same presentation I'll give at cf.Objective(), so you have another chance :)

The conference is on May 19-23.

Topic information

Mate: a tag-based, event-driven Flex framework

Mate is a Flex framework that leverages the tag-based MXML language to provide an easy to read map that defines how your application handles its events. It solves the common problems developers encounter when creating Flex applications, from small to enterprise, such as retrieving data from external services and handling business logic.

In this presentation you will learn what Mate is and how to use. During the session, we will go through the solutions to some of those recurring problems, while introducing Mate’s features and syntax. 

Posted on March 27, 2008
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