The community choice awards are an opportunity to vote for fantastic open source software. For me Zentrack has been such a useful tool that it certainly got my vote! Please click the award link if you want to vote too.
This weekend I revisited the Cairngorm MVC structure ready for use in the Zentrack project. I went back to the excellent set of articles written by Steven Webster at the Adobe devnet site and read through a Flex 3 PDF version too. As part of my work for DPD I created a prototype front end, which I have now started re-factoring into a Cairngorm structure. I plan to release the code in approximately one week.
There are a lot of tutorials for Cairngorm already on the web, so I don’t feel the need to reiterate someone elses good work. Instead, when I release the code for Zentrack (Liger) I’ll point out any of the tricky problems I solved that may be of use to others.
Today I installed Flex Builder 3 on Linux. This means that very soon I will no longer be tied to my Windows laptop for Flex development, which I think is marvelous news. As much as I like Windows XP media center edition, for development purposes it isn’t ideal.
Flex Builder for Linux also has great significance for the Zentrack project too, due to the fact that developers will be able to edit and recompile the new Flex front end on all of the major platforms (Linux, Mac & Windows).