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Thursday, August 31, 2006

Gugga Flash Framework first release

Nine months later and hopefully alot wiser the first official release of the framework is here. The reason for the delay is obvious, we wanted to share what we think is best at this point of time. Is it complete? Far from it. But is it good enough to be released in the public domain, you can count on that.
Every significant project we have build is based on that framework and we have not made a step back of the principles we said we will defend.
Ok, no more of as one friend nicely put it, programmer bravado.

You can download the framework from here:
Gugga Flash Framework 0.9
You can review the documentation for the framework here:
Gugga Flash Framework Documentation in HTML format

The package contains not just the framework but also the unit testing framework for it and some sample applications to get you started.
The unit testing framework is for those of you who would decide to extend it and want to make sure your code does not brake anything.
We are working on releasing a wiki that will feature some articles about how to use the framework and we will be happy to hear from you.
We do hope you will find interesting and engaging in what we do and for everyone interested to contribute to do so. Because after all this is the idea to grow from where we are now and to create something that everyone involved in developing rich interactive web sites using Flash technologies and OOP.

Some of the more significant web sites that have been build based on the framework:
Bombay Sapphire
Dewars World of Whiskey
Bar TV

Acknowledgements To Everyone's Code And Concepts We Based Our Framework On.
Macromedia
Thank You First and foremost for creating Flash :)

We are using some concepts,classes and implementations of their UI component Framework, Web Service Connector, Delegate Utils.
AS2LIB
Thank you for the Unit testing capabilities, reflection and Hash Map collection
as2logger
Thank you for the logging capabilities
Robert Penner
Thank you for your easing animations
Colin Moock
Thank you for your application template idea and first steps in applying design patterns in Flash
Darron Schall
Thank you for your Date Format Class
Mika Palmu
Thank you for the Crypthology capabilities
Ladislav Zigo
Thank you for the Tweening Classes
Alessandro Crugnola
Thank you for your XML2Object