Futurescale Recognizes and Responds to Growing International Interest in PureMVC 

It is said that if you buld a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door. It seems there may be a grain of truth to this old adage after all.

Since its introduction just over a year ago, support and enthusiasm for the PureMVC framework has been growing steadily from all around the globe. We thought it might be interesting to have a look at some recent indicators of the project's acceptance in the global arena.

For instance, during the month of May 2008, Google Analytics reports over 5,000 visits from nearly 14,000 pageviews on the repository project site for the AS3 version of the framework alone. These visits represented over 3,000 unique visitors hailing from 88 different countries or territories.

The top 5 visiting locations were US, France, UK, Germany and China. Not surprisingly, these were the countries for which a native language version of the prescriptive PureMVC Best Practices and Implementation Idioms document exists. 

At this time, there are over 25 contributors to the project, from 9 different countries including: Australia, China, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States, and Romania. The efforts of this dedicated group of individuals have brought the number of publicly accessable framework ports, demos and utilities to over 40. 

In its first month the PureMVC Developer's Group on Linked-in, the popular social network for professionals, grew to over 400 members from 65 countries.

Responding to this interest Futurescale CEO and PureMVC Project Architect, Cliff Hall recently delivered a series of open to the public talks on PureMVC to developers in Europe. Adobe was kind enough to provide space for the first two talks in London and Hamburg; the latter being a part of the local Hamburg Flex User Group meeting. In Copenhagen, Lila was the gratious host, and attendees arrived from as far as Sweden.

Another response to the international development community that we're very excited about is the integration of the BabelFish translator into the PureMVC forums.

"This will have the wonderful effect of opening up the accumulated knowledge in the forums to speakers of many languages in a very fluid way," said Mr. Hall. "Using the translator is simple, you select the language from the list at the top of the page, and from that point on, as you navigate the forums, all the content and chrome are presented in your native language. You can  even bookmark the translated pages."