Introducing Open Country Codes: easy to use ISO 3166 country codes for your apps. Why are some things just much harder than they need to be? Finding a current, easy-to-use data source for populating a country selection box, for example. Most of the clean country data out on the web is second-hand, having at one point [...]

If you're implementing PayPal Website Payments Pro Direct Payment in Flex, you're most likely going to need a ComboBox of country names and their ISO codes as expected by the PayPal API. There's some freely available code for HTML but I couldn't find anything for Flex. It only took three find and replaces, however, to [...]