Played a bit with the flickr api over the holidays.
Not really a information visualization tool, my intent was simply to try and make the flickr search experience a little more playful and engaging.

PureMVC multicore.
http://bitstream.ca/

Thanks both Mariush and Cliff!
Since my original post I also came across this tutorial on consuming restful services in AS3 only projects
http://blog.martinlegris.com/2009/12/11/tutorial-consuming-rest-web-services-in-actionscript-3-part-4/

Adapting the example to PureMVC I think the idea of using an iterator as the list manager or 'vo' for PhotosProxy makes lots of sense. Also creating an abstract proxy as mentioned by Cliff  to handle any type of restful service call.

Thanks Cliff. I guess what had me stumped is that I thought there was always a 1:1 correspondence between a Proxy and its associated VO.

In this case the search or 'photo' proxy returns a list of photos...and I though a VO by default usually represents or contains information for a single object.

So would the VO for this 'PhotoProxy' represent this entire list??? or would there somehow be multiple VO's, each representing just ONE photo?

As a personal project currently working on a searchable photo gallery.
A user will be able to search for photos by date and tags as well as number of photos returned in search query.
At the very least I know I will need a 'SearchProxy' with a corresponding VO containing values for all the current search parameters.

But after selecting a specific photo returned in the initial search I also want to be able to retrieve additional info specific to that photo from the server.

Just not sure about the best way to architect this....

Should I implement an additional proxy or keep the logic for the 'additional info' query in the same proxy??

Couple 'gotchas' thought I'd share case anyone is working with Webtrends and or GA.

With Webtrends I had an issue trying to pass string data containing  a single quote. Changed to an apostrophe and worked fine. GA parsed the single quote fine.
With GA, I needed to send a trackpage event before the trackevent calls would work

Great article on Logging Best ractices, but what really caught my eye was the last paragraph

'Configure Logging at Runtime'

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/cairngorm/Best+Practices+for+Logging

I use an AS3 modified version of luminicBox, but It would be really cool if a logging class or utility could be modified at runtime. Anyone know if a logging utility like this exists for PureMVC?

Created in conjunction with my client Lollipop Digital. Built for 2 languages and adapted for a kiosk application as well. I ended up using MultiCore and BulkLoader to handle assets loading.

http://www.lexus.ca/hs/en.html

Some valid points, but not sure what you mean by 'Service Capture and Charles are nice, those debuggers require you write service implementation code'
Also there is a service browser for amfphp
http://5etdemi.com/amfphp2/browser/

AMFPHP all the way. Finished a project recently using PureMVC and AMF
http://www.growersaunaturale.com/

Although Zend is officially supported by Adobe, I seem to recall AMFphp was written by the same developer ??and has some speed -performance advantages as well


As for debugging remoting projects, can't recommend the java based tool, Service Capture enough
http://www.kevinlangdon.com/serviceCapture/

Sasuke, thanks for the reply. Yes, the reason I thought there might be an issue with multiple 'simultaneous' calls is that using the older 'getURL' method for javascript calls never worked properly (for IE6?, only the first call worked, the rest were ignored by the browser), and I always had to resort to creating a getURL que.
I'm guessing this is no longer an issue with ExternalInterface.

I've read Cliff's suggestion on creating an abstract mediator and it seems the most elegant solution in my case
http://forums.puremvc.org/index.php?topic=1341.msg6210#msg6210

My question is how best to implement multiple vendors, in this case both Google Analytics and Web trends.

I think simplicity dictates that I just have one tracking proxy with multiple navigateToURL calls for the different vendors.

My question is will there be a problem with simultaneous navigateToURL calls, or will I need to implement some sort of que system, to stack these calls?

Came across this post and explanation for reducing code in concrete mediators
http://www.ahrooga.com/2009/06/puremvc-creating-a-short-hand-mediator/
http://www.ahrooga.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/AbstractMediator.as

Would this be a recommended(best) practice?

Trying to decide whether to go with Bulkloader or the StartupManager (now called loadup??).

Filesize is always a concern, Bulkloader adds about 16k to the compiled swf, anyone know how much Startupmanager adds?

I noticed that the SpringActionscript framework has a PureMVC extension.

Could someone describe (to someone unfamiliar with inversion of control) in a nutshell what  SpringActionscript offers as a framework, why you would use it, and how it might integrate with PureMVC?

Recently competed my first application using PureMVC. End up going with amfPHP for the database remoting. There's a public gallery and a private admin once you're logged in. Overall, was a LOT of fun building and plan on using puremvc for all my web apps moving forward.

check it out, lots of fun
http://www.growersaunaturale.com/

jbach at bitstream.ca
design- lollipop digital inc http://wearelollipop.com/