When it comes to testing and validating the code I write, I usually do it right after I write the actual code. As much as possible I try writing very small bits of code (a function or even half a function) and then test immediately. If the input range is fairly limited (for example a [...]

I bet you didn’t think e-mail address validation could be that “easy”. Take a look at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9585 (the PHP way). I’m wondering if I should change my e-mail address to {^c\@talin*ciocov^}@somedomain.com .

My next major project will be to build an ad server engine. When I say “engine”, I’m referring only to that part of an ad server that will deal exclusively with ad delivery, basically the part that receives and responds to ad requests from publishers.
Although there’s a lot more going on in a full-featured ad [...]

Loading as AS2 SWF into AS3 is possible using the Loader class, but that won’t help in case you also need to communicate with the loaded AS2 SWF. The trick is to create a wrapper AS2 SWF that will act as a proxy (or say bridge) between the host AS3 SWF and the target AS2 [...]