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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).

When […]

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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

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 few features that are going to be in the next major version of AIR code name “Athena”.

Today I found the link to the video of Arno’s presentation “Flash […]

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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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A busy (and exciting) May for the Flex community

Posted May 5, 2009 12:57 pm
Filed under: Flex, Flex Builder, Presentations

In case you’ve missed the announcements, the month of May feels like it’s overflowing with community events. Here’s what’s on my schedule so far for May 2009 (And I strongly endorse these. With the possible exception of the third one =):

SilvaFUG North (SF) May meeting (May 12): This is basically a pre-event for FlashCamp, with […]

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A new (old) tool for AIR SQLite development

Posted April 22, 2009 3:41 pm
Filed under: AIR, Articles by Paul, Projects, local SQL database

This is pretty much old news by internet time standards, but I haven’t had time to write about it until now. (We’re working hard to make future Flex/AIR/ActionScript/Flash documentation more focused on how you actually use documentation, better than ever before.)
A couple of years ago, before AIR beta 1 (“Apollo”), I wrote a tool for […]

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Making localization simple for Flex applications

Posted April 8, 2009 3:42 pm
Filed under: Elsewhere on the web

David Deraedt is at it again with another amazing application for Flex developers.
(No, he’s not paying me for all these things I say about him. He’s just nice enough to let me hang around in his source code sometimes =)
I just watched the demo video of his Lupo Flex Localization Studio. If you think you […]

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A useful tool, the joy of shipping code, and a great developer

Posted March 12, 2009 11:23 am
Filed under: AIR, Application Design, Coding, Projects, local SQL database

If you use David Deraedt’s great AIR SQLite administration tool Lita, you probably already saw that he just pushed an update (v. 1.2) a few days ago. Aside from my general happiness from seeing that this release fixes some bugs and adds new features that were important to me, this release has personal significance for […]

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Funny coding behaviors

Posted March 10, 2009 12:25 pm
Filed under: Articles by Paul, Writing

Disclaimer: this is just a silly little note, perhaps the first such on this site although my personal site primarily consists of such little tidbits, mostly about my kids.
A few years ago I was working as a developer for a computer training department at a large midwestern university*. I also wrote and taught training courses […]

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Please test: updated ActionScript GZIP library with Flash Player 10 support

Posted February 27, 2009 3:40 pm
Filed under: AS3, ActionScript, Articles by Paul, Projects

Since I first created my ActionScript GZIP library as a test of Adobe AIR’s file compression capability, the number one request I’ve received has been to add support for Flash Player-only projects. With the release of Flash Player 10 last fall, I couldn’t use the lack of player support as an excuse any more. So […]

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