About Words, punctuated
Words, punctuated is:
- A whole bunch of words,
- written (and punctuated) by Paul Robertson,
- powered by WordPress,
- using a design of my own creation, inspired by a pair of sleeper pajamas that belonged to my son (he was three at the time).
As you can probably tell by looking at my early posts, I began this site as a way to keep track of articles and sites that I wanted to be able to find again (it wasn’t linked to from my main site—really it was just my own personal bookmarks page. Eventually, my instructional designer/trainer instincts got the better of me, and I decided to share a few of my own thoughts with the world. So, I moved the formerly hidden system to the front door of this web site.
About Paul
Currently I work as a Sr. ActionScript Developer/Writer for the Platform Developer Documentation team at Adobe Systems, Inc. In my job I build example applications and write documentation and training materials. My team has specific responsibility for the core ActionScript language (i.e. ActionScript syntax and all the top level and flash.* classes). We’re also responsible for Adobe AIR, and the components and supplemental classes that are included with the Flash authoring tool (fl.*). In other words, we do pretty much all the ActionScript document except the Flex-specific classes.
At Adobe, I am/have been involved in the following releases:
- Flash Player “Astro” (currently)
- Flash “Diesel” (currently)
- Adobe AIR “next” (currently)
- Adobe AIR 1.0 (“Apollo”)
- Flex 3 (“Moxie”)
- Flash CS3 (“Blaze”)
- Flex 2.0.1
- Flex 2.0
I’ve worked on different things for each release. For Flex 3/AIR 1.0 I primarily worked on the local SQL database and the Flex AIR classes. For Flash CS3 I was the lead writer for the book “Programming ActionScript 3.0” that accompanies all the products that use ActionScript. I’ve also built several example applications and a few of the smaller code samples that accompany listings in the “ActionScript Language Reference.”
My web design/development/programming interests cover quite a wide range, so I try not to go much beyond that in my articles and posts. If you are my mother (or someone similarly connected to me) and want to know about other things that are going on in my life, you can read more (mostly stories about my kids) in my personal/family site.
Contact me
Instructions for contacting Paul
You may also see me on various email lists, discussion forums, etc. Here are my most common lurking spots/places to find me:
- Adobe Livedocs (AIR, Flash, Flex) and Adobe user forums (AIR, Flex) (“adbe_paul” and “probertson”)
- Email lists including Flashcoders, Flexcoders, Flash Tiger, ApolloCoders (gmail address “paulslists”)
- Google Code (“h.paul.robertson”)
- My LinkedIn profile
- Twitter (“probertson”)
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- Book reviews (3)
- Coding (8)
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- Dreamweaver (4)
- Flash (54)
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- Flex Builder (4)
- Frameworks (6)
- JavaScript (2)
- MS SQL Server (4)
- Presentations (8)
- Projects (3)
- SaaS (1)
- Semantic Web (1)
- SQL (8)
- Unit testing (2)
- User-centered design (12)
- Web Browsers (6)
- Web Design (16)
- CSS (6)
- Writing (9)
