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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. User Experience Developer for Dedo Interactive, Inc. We build touch-based applications, mostly for custom hardware (table and wall displays) as well as for tablet and mobile devices.

Previously, I was a Sr. ActionScript Developer/Writer for the Platform Developer Documentation team at Adobe Systems, Inc. for just over four years. In that role I built example applications and wrote documentation and training materials. My team had specific responsibility for the core ActionScript language (i.e. ActionScript syntax and all the top level and flash.* classes). We were also responsible for Adobe AIR, and the components and supplemental classes that are included with the Flash authoring tool (fl.*). In other words, we did pretty much all the ActionScript document except the Flex-specific classes.

At Adobe, I was involved in the following releases:

I’ve worked on different things for each release. For Flash CS5/AIR 2 I worked on several topics, including a new guide on ActionScript performance with Thibault Imbert. 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” (now “ActionScript Developers Guide”) 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.

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You may also see me on various email lists, discussion forums, etc. Here are my most common lurking spots/places to find me:

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