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This is the blog of Jesse Warden, a Rich Internet Application Architect. He specializes in using Flex and Flash to create Rich Internet Applications.

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Who Has Time for Unit Tests?

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

A couple months ago, I read about dpUInt, yet another unit testing framework for Flex. I got it from reading the docs, it seemed easy to add to an existing or new project, and I’m all gung ho for giving it a try. If it sucks, I know I have both FlexUnit and […]

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I had the honor of being 1 of the lucky 10 invited to attend the Mix n Mash 2007 event held by Microsoft. This is the 2nd one. It’s an event where they invite you to Microsoft’s HQ to see what they are working on, give feedback, and meet Bill Gates.
Here’s a picture […]

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After coding AS3 for about 2 years now, I’ve come to 1 conclusion: I’m sick and tired of testing for null. It seems to be the most common if then statement I write in all of my code. I’ve been doing some pure ActionScript work in the past few months, and I have […]

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Silverlight Controls

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Check out these Silverlight control examples for both JavaScript (v1) and C# (v1.1) by Tim Heuer. I hate code behind, specifically the Flex implementation of the idea of separating your View from its implementation. The idea is you layout your GUI in MXML, and code it’s functionality in ActionScript. Gross.
However, I have […]

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Every time someone blogs about the way they code on a blog, the comments always have one person who writes about how their company/department/group has the described technique as a coding standard in their company. From using a new line for squiggly brackets, to no code on the timeline in Flash files, all the […]

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