Unit tests are supposed to be the first things you write when following an extreme programming or rapid development methodology, but I seldom found the time to bother until recently. On a Flex Data Services project, we needed to interact with a complex and evolving application programing interface. Our coping strategy was to write flexunit [...]

While customizing my site I decided it would be cool to have different widget sidebars on various pages. I wanted to display navigation on the search/archive pages, related subject info on the post pages, irrelevant itunes info on my life story, and keep a generic sidebar on the rest of the pages. I hunted around [...]

Ask and ye shall receive.
Earlier this week I posted a question about REST xml and flash as3. Tony Hillerson of effectiveUI graciously provided an answer. To summarize, I wanted to know best practice on implementing Put and Delete http methods given the limitation that the Actionscript Flash UrlRequest object only supports the Get and Post [...]