You probably haven’t heard about FlexPMD. It’s an open source plugin from Adobe for Flex or Flash Builder. You run it against your source code and it alerts you to “bad smells,” or potential bad practices, in your code. These types of tools, from FlexPMD’s older brother, PMD from the Java world, and “Lint” from the C world have been around for a long time, checking over the shoulders of developers, and frustrating computer science students who are required to compile with no lint warnings. (All my programming homework in college had this requirement, ugh!)
I ran FlexPMD against the source code for brandondement.com and was really impressed with the results. Some of the results were of the “I don’t care about that” variety, but Flex PMD can be configured to ignore those, and many more were in the “Oh really? You’re right!” category. I’ve only just begun to use it, but even then I would highly recommend it for anyone who’s committed to becoming a better programmer. More information about installation and use can be found at:
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexpmd/FlexPMD+Eclipse+plugin
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