Memorphic

We have an opening for a highly experienced Project Manager or Account Manager in our London office. More details can be found on our careers page.

Next month, Peter will be presenting at the WebDU conference in Sydney, Australia. This will be the first public outing for the Slide application framework for Flex, that Memorphic has been using in-house to develop most of our projects for over a year. We’ve had a lot of success with it, but it will be interesting to see how the wider development community reacts to it.

We’ve recently been asked about if Slide is intended to be a “Cairngorm-killer” (Cairngorm being the principal Flex application framework promoted by Adobe.) It’s unlike that Slide will usurp Cairngorm. We use Slide together with a set of programming conventions that give us a consistent structure between all projects, but there is no reason why developers won’t be able to go on and take advantage of the benefits of both Slide and Cairngorm at the same time. One of our goals in the next few months is to show an open-source sample application that shows this.

You can read about Peter’s conference session on the WebDU site.

Yesterday Adobe announced the first official release of AIR. AIR is already becoming a core target platform for our business so this news is extremely welcome, as it is difficult to convince customers to use a beta product for applications that are critical to their business.

We are well on our way to completing the first phase of Self Serve, a desktop application built on AIR, for LMG, the company behind the Nectar loyalty scheme in the UK. Adobe used the application as a part of their press launch, so we’ve seen mention of it popping up in all sorts of publications. Adobe were extremely accommodating when we asked them to get involved with LMG. This was very important for the success of the project because it could not have succeeded without AIR’s features, but it would have been too risky for LMG to agree to use AIR while it was still in beta without Adobe’s support.

We have been working for a number of months updating Fidelity’s Trading Knowledge Center to use Flex 2 and we’re happy to say that it is now live. The update meant that all the videos could be re-encoded using VP6, which looks a lot cleaner than the older Sorensen videos. Both versions of this project have been very important to us and it has been great to see the positive reaction in publications like Business Week and The Wall Street Journal’s Money Matters magazine.

We currently have vacancies for Junior and Senior developers at our office in Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa. See our careers page for more information.

EDIT: These positions are now filled.

After almost a year of existence, Memorphic finally has a website - of sorts. So thanks to all the people who have complained or mocked us and finally pushed us into doing something.

Since we formed about this time last year, a lot has happened. We have grown to 7 permanent employees, established a South African subsidiary, built open-source libraries, become an Adobe Solution Partner and had clients come back to us project after project.

Here is a selection of what has been keeping us too busy to build a website:

• Fidelity Trading Knowledge Center. Launched last year and we are currently working on a major update to this in Flex 2. This application was developed partly on-site in Boston, and partly by a remote team in our South Africa office.
• Airbus UK. We designed and built the Flex user interface for a data and process management application, internal to Airbus. The work was completed mostly in South Africa with consultants on-site during decision-making phases.
• XPath-AS3. A fully-functional, open-source, W3C-compliant XPath implementation for ActionScript 3.
• Slide. A soon-to-be open-source application framework for Flex. We’re still refining it - more coming soon!