mmm maté

Tasty maté. Not only is it a popular cultural beverage in Argentina and the south of Brazil. It’s also a great event based Adobe Flex framework. I found this too late to incorporate into the WidgetCircles™ PersonalMediaBook™ project I recently worked on, unfortunately. I discovered this framework toward the end of the project and I wasn’t willing to risk destabilizing the code in order to retrofit the code with mate.

I had been using a similar event framework I developed for my own needs but mate is superior and more mature. I’ve been using mate for a couple of smaller projects but I have yet to put it to use in a large project (at the time of writing). I have to say congratulations and thank you to the people at mate for their hard work in developing mate. It’s intuitive, easy to use, and powerful.

tidbit: In Brazil there is a drink similar to the maté consumed in Argentina but the Brazilian version is cold and has a slightly different spelling (matte) and pronunciation. The best place to get matte in Brazil is on Ipanema beach between lifeguard tower 9 and 10. Look for the guys with a large silver container hanging from each shoulder. One container has matte and one has lemon aide. Get a cup filled with about 1/4 lemon aide and the rest matte. It’s Heaven in a plastic cup. Each matte guy makes the matte and some make it better than others, you may have to experiment before finding a guy you can get it from regularly.

Experiment with the maté framework too!