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I am pleased to announce that the Flex application we (Schematic) have been developing for several months now has officially gone beta. We still have a long road ahead of us before it will be finished, but this is a huge milestone for us nonetheless. Here are some interesting details about the project:

Credits:

Flash development: Schematic
Production/design: Turner Sports
Data: PGA Tour and Turner Sports

Fun facts:

- Built on Flex and Cairngorm frameworks

- Wrote our own lightweight 3D engine for projecting 3D shot plot data on 2D hole graphic renderings

- Full browser integration - relies on the browser scroll bar, back/forward buttons, wide range of deep-linking capabilities

- Capable of rendering a leaderboard over 10,000 pixels tall with a single SWF file

- Turbo is being written specifically to meet the demanding performance needs of the application

- New data is polled every 30 seconds and distributed through the application automatically via our elaborate model and data binding rig

- Custom model adapters support gzip compressed or uncompressed data in the form of either JSON or XML

Again, we still have some performance/memory enhancements to make, bugs to fix, and features to add - but it’s a start! If you are interested in checking it out, Mike from Turner Sports has posted a link in the comments below. You’ll want to view it during a live tournament, which typically occurs Thursday-Sunday morning/afternoon (ET).