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New project: AIR SQLite utilities

Posted February 3, 2010 1:44 pm
Filed under: AIR, AS3, ActionScript, Application Design, Articles by Paul, Projects, SQL, local SQL database

I’m excited to announce that I’m “officially” releasing a new open-source project that I’ve been using on personal and work projects for over a year.
For lack of a better name, I call it my “AIR SQLite utility library”
The code currently contains one major piece of functionality (well, two different variations on one bit of functionality), […]

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Multi-table INSERT using one SQL statement in AIR SQLite

Posted November 30, 2009 11:00 pm
Filed under: AIR, Articles by Paul, SQL, Tutorials, local SQL database

This article describes a way that you can use a single INSERT statement to add data to multiple tables in the SQL dialect supported by the SQLite engine in Adobe AIR.
Normally in SQL, including in AIR’s built-in SQLite database engine, you can only add data to one table at a time using an INSERT statement. […]

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Building iPhone apps with Flash Platform tools roundup

Posted October 5, 2009 2:35 pm
Filed under: AS3, ActionScript, Articles to remember, Elsewhere on the web, iPhone

Lots of news and rumors are flying around right now about developing iPhone apps using Flash Platform tools. Here’s a collection of links that I’ve found, some the official information and some information from folks who were involved in developing this cool new technology:

First thing first: if you haven’t seen the MythHackers video about Flash […]

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New article “Programming with the Vector class”

Posted September 14, 2009 4:40 pm
Filed under: ActionScript, Articles by Paul, Tutorials, Vector (typed arrays), Writing

Several months ago (probably almost a year ago) I wrote an article for the Adobe Developer Connection titled “Programming with the Vector class.” As you can surely guess, the article is about the Vector class, which provides typed array functionality (an array whose elements are required to all be instances of the same data type). […]

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A paperless world?

Posted August 20, 2009 2:08 pm
Filed under: Articles by Paul

In the spirit of the anecdote I shared last March, here’s a funny little story from my day.
My boss asked me to review a report he’s been working on. He wrote it in a wiki page. I reviewed it mostly while I was riding on the train to work this morning (without network connectivity), so […]

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Flex and AIR usability studies

Posted July 14, 2009 10:46 am
Filed under: AIR, Articles to remember, Elsewhere on the web, Life at Adobe, User-centered design

My team at Adobe is conducting a few usability-type studies to learn more about how our customers actually work (and hopefully improve our products as a result =). To sweeten the deal, we’re offering Amazon gift cards for participants. (There are a limited number of participant slots available.)
We’re mainly looking for developers who have Flex […]

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Survey: Is a ChosenSecurity certificate trusted on your machine?

Posted June 24, 2009 11:32 am
Filed under: AIR, Privacy/security, Surveys

Please take the following “survey” to see if a ChosenSecurity code-signing certificate is trusted on your machine.
(If you’re curious, you can read the background details below.)
Here’s how you can help:

Download the .air file for the test application (339 KB)
Double-click the .air file to install it (you’ll need to have Adobe AIR installed already, of course).

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New features in the next Adobe AIR “Athena”

Posted 10:51 am
Filed under: AIR, Articles to remember, Elsewhere on the web, Privacy/security

Note: article updated Sept. 18, 2009 with additional features that have been made public since the original post.
…and another update Sept. 22, 2009
…and still another update Sept. 25, 2009
If you were following Twitter during the San Francisco Flash Camp on May 29, you might have seen that Arno Gourdol, Engineering manager for AIR, announced/showed a […]

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“Adobe AIR data privacy and security” - slides, notes, links

Posted June 9, 2009 10:03 am
Filed under: AIR, Application Design, Flex, Presentations, Privacy/security, SQL, local SQL database

On May 20, 2009 at the 360|Flex conference in Indianapolis I gave a presentation titled “Adobe AIR data privacy and security.” As I always do (and after a bit of a delay), here are the slides from my presentation. I’ve added fairly lengthy notes to the slides (I had to make the font smaller so […]

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Thoughts from 360|Flex day one

Posted May 18, 2009 8:49 pm
Filed under: AS3, ActionScript, Elsewhere on the web, Flex, Frameworks, Sites to remember, Unit testing

Here are a few things that stood out to me the most in this great day at the greatest Flex conference on the planet:

FlexUnit 4. Wow. Big update. Very nice new features. Time to get (back) into it. (presentation by Michael Labriola)
Renaun Erickson’s Structured Log Testing framework. Another great, unexpected surprise. I didn’t really have […]

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