http://www.totalworldannihilation.org/blog All about software development Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:57:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the most common tasks you perform when writing an application is code related to validating user input and collecting user input. This is also the case for applications written in Flex and having a simple way of doing this would save both time and money. In my new ... http://www.totalworldannihilation.org/blog/2008/07/23/simplifying-form-validation-and-processing/ Since writing my first article about Implementing Policy Based Security In Action Script 3 I have had the opportunity to create a live demo with source code available for viewing/downloading. This is to give you a better notion of how implementing policy based security for user interface components can make ... http://www.totalworldannihilation.org/blog/2008/07/10/policy-based-security-in-flex2/ The other day I read an interesting posting on the Object Mentor blog called Observations on Test-Driving User Interfaces by Dean Wampler. He makes quite a few good points as to why applying TDD to rich internett application user interfaces is very hard. There are two reasons why TDD is ... http://www.totalworldannihilation.org/blog/2008/06/27/test-dirving-user-interface-development/ If you've read anything on this blog you would probably have noticed that Enligh is not my native language. This is why I have always had two blogs in order not to have a confusing mix of English and Norwegian content on my blog. My Norwegian blog has been unavailable ... http://www.totalworldannihilation.org/blog/2008/06/13/the-same-small-man-the-same-big-mouth-but-in-a-different-tounge/ This is actually a very old article which I wrote back in December 2006 over on my Norwegian blog. In an attempt to make that blog a bit less schizophrenic I thought I would move the English content over here. While looking at some of the old posts I think ... http://www.totalworldannihilation.org/blog/2008/06/12/unit-testing-and-changed/ I don't usually write about other people's articles or write blog posts saying "read this great article", but now I do. Read this great article called "ActionScript Collections and Functional Programming" by Bruce Eckel. It dives into details about, well you guessed it, collections and functional programming and how it ... http://www.totalworldannihilation.org/blog/2008/06/11/throw-new-runtimeexceptionblog-post-blog-post/ I learned about the Last F.M. developer setup when the two founders Matt Ogle and Anill Bawa Cavia when they talked at the Future Of Web Applications conference in London in 2007. In order to communicate with a distributed and ever increasing development team they used IRC as the basis ... http://www.totalworldannihilation.org/blog/2008/05/05/reducing-waste-with-poll-based-project-communication/ While listening to the BBC World Service, which I tend to do when I work from home, the program Global Business all of a sudden caught my attention when I heard the mention of Lean and the Toyota Manufacturing System. Having studied and applied Lean principles for a while I ... http://www.totalworldannihilation.org/blog/2008/04/29/lean-principles-and-how-theyre-applied-everywhere/ Just recently I got a new computer and not wanting to use Microsoft Office for writing documents I thought I would give the Adobe acquisition Buzzword a chance. I have used GoogleDocs for a while and it works ok, but I wanted to see if the Flex based Buzzword was ... http://www.totalworldannihilation.org/blog/2008/04/15/buzzword-sums-it-all-up/ Being a Java developer I felt that Cairngorm was a God sent as it provided me with a familiar way of constructing an application architecture. This made the process of starting developing in Flex a lot less complicated than if I where to start from scratch. In my old company ... http://www.totalworldannihilation.org/blog/2008/04/11/cairngorm-a-tired-old-horse-that-should-be-put-down/