Three part series explore different techniques for handling long running computations on the Flash platform. As well as presents a reusable library for abstracting away the details of running long jobs in Flash.

Binding and validation is something almost all web frameworks must have a solution for. Some are more elegant than others, but the problem with most of them is that they are tied specifically to the use of that framework. I've yet to see a reusable utility that is framework agnostic for handling this. This is another take on Objects as Functions post I did a while back. Only now I'm applying it to binding and valiation for the web. The results are usable by any Java developer using any framework they want. Using this approach I reduced 150 lines of validation code to just 8 lines.

In Plain Jane Java you can’t actually add methods to Java’s String as it is a final class– what’s more, you can’t easily add methods to non-final classes at runtime either. With Groovy, however, you can.

Ever think of your objects as small functions wrapping around your execution context? This post explores techniques in Java to imitate powerful methods calls similar to what Javascript and Ruby developers can do. Hey you've got Objects in my functions, and you have functions in my Objects. It's gonna get zany.

Article 3 in the Stripes 1.5 Features series. More general but significant improvements.

Stripes 1.5 is coming soon and there are a slew of new features. This article talks about Clean/Pretty URLs and how they can be used in Stripes 1.5.

Some many developers aren't object oriented developers. Every candidate out there has Object Oriented Design on their resume in spite of the fact they can't define polymorphism or worse encapsulation! If you can't define polymorphism or encapsulation without resorting to examples then you can't write Object Oriented Design as one your skills. You don't even know what object oriented is! Here are some techniques to show you how to reform your imperative ways and say good bye to singleton and static utilities.