So while working on my current project, my first with EE. I’ve created this library to work with channels.
Check it out. It’s not complete, it’s a work in progress. But this is version 1.0 in all intents and purposes.
http://code.google.com/p/eechanneltools/source/browse/#svn/trunk/libraries
No documentation as of yet though. Just sharing, maybe someone can use it as well.