I meant to post this waay before now.. Read it and weep..
It was freaking awesome by the way, sorry you couldn’t be there :-P
I’m currently in the final stages of a refactor and I thought I’d just share this little tidbit on why strict typing is a good thing in AS3, especially when working in an agile environment where things can change quickly as requirements unfold and mutate.
I’ve been running with the Rails MySQL adapter for a while now after failing to build the native MySQL gem under Leopard. The problem, I thought, was that I’m using the Macports MySQL, and it turns out I was right. If you attempt to build the MySQL gem and you get an error like this: