Simplifying form validation and processing in Flex

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 job working for Open AdExchange [...]

July 23rd, 2008 | Flex | No comments

Policy based security in Flex - part II

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 sense. No more of those [...]

July 10th, 2008 | Flex | No comments

Test dirving user interface development

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 not being performed when building [...]

June 27th, 2008 | work | 2 comments

The same small man. The same big mouth, but in a different tounge

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 for some time due to [...]

June 13th, 2008 | Misc | No comments