Posts by dougr

What is RIA? Why Rich Internet Applications Are Good For Your Business

Posted by dougr on February 16, 2012. No comments.

I was privileged to present on RIA, on behalf of Douglas Reynolds Consulting to the Association of Information Technology Professionals group this evening.

My FITC Boston 2011 Schedule – Want To Trade Notes?

Posted by dougr on October 12, 2011. No comments.

FITC Boston, 2011 is coming up quickly and I am finding that there are some sessions that I am interested in that are being presented in the same time slot. I am planning on doing some post-conference articles here on the sessions that I am attending. If you would be interested in “Teaming Up” on sharing notes, links, and other insights on sessions then be sure to add a comment below with a link to where your post-session write-ups may be found.

Testing a Model Robotlegs EventDispatcher In FlexUnit

Posted by dougr on October 2, 2011. No comments.

First off, what makes a model a Robotlegs model? There is a base class in Robotlegs which is called Actor. By extending Actor, generally used in models and services in Robotlegs applications, we are able to access a property of Actor which is named eventDispatcher. EventDispatcher is shared throughout the Robotlegs framework, thusly, any events dispatched upon the eventDispatcher may be heard across the entire application.

Stubbing a Command Dependency With Mockolate and FlexUnit

Posted by dougr on September 26, 2011. No comments.

In Test Driven Development (TDD) and Unit Testing, it is often necessary to provide the Class Under Test (CUT) with a stub of a class for which it has a dependency. For instance, this example illustrates a command class that injects a model. In order to run a test against the execute method of the CUT we need to ensure that the model and related model properties exist for the CUT in order to assert against the command’s execute method.

ActionScript – Trim Leading and Trailing 0′s From a String

Posted by dougr on September 15, 2011. One comment.

Here are some quick and easy solutions for trimming leading and trailing 0′s from a string in ActionScript.

The Agile Manifesto and Principles

Posted by dougr on September 11, 2011. No comments.

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Agile

I think it is best to start off a discussion of agile development with reference to the formal origin. The Manifesto for Agile Software Development is the definition of the approach, or methodology, to agile software development.

Agile

Posted by dougr on September 9, 2011. No comments.

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Agile

Agile…I rather like that this word was coined to represent a development methodology. As defined by Merriam-Webster, I believe it is quite accurate.