Memorphic

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.

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!