Topic: Opinions

I am 360|Flex (and so can you!)

Posted February 18, 2010 12:41 pm
Filed under: Articles by Paul, Conferences, Opinions

The next 360|Flex conference is coming up quickly — March 7-10, 2010 in San Jose, California. As I’ve been preparing for the conference and reading some of the things other people are saying about it, I’ve been reminiscing about past 360|Flex (and other) conferences I’ve been to, and about how much they’ve impacted me professionally and personally. (Hint: a lot.)

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Thoughts on multi-screen, multi-context app development

Posted February 9, 2010 6:00 pm
Filed under: AIR, Application Design, Articles by Paul, Contextual design, Frameworks, Multi-screen, Opinions, Presentations, User-centered design, iPhone

Around 8 months ago I was asked to start thinking about the now emerging (particularly from a Flash Platform perspective) world of multi-screen application development. What are issues to consider? What guidance should we offer?
It turns out that my thinking on that topic isn’t going to become anything in the Adobe documentation. So I’ve sort […]

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Adobe opens door for creating alternative SWF players

Posted April 30, 2008 10:33 pm
Filed under: Articles by Paul, Flash, Opinions

Adobe just announced a new project called the Open Screen Project. There’s a lot going on with the project, so I won’t try to summarize all the different points and partners. If you read through the material, you’ll see that a lot of it talks about opening the door for improving access and presentation/experience for […]

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Strongly typed arrays — coming to ActionScript near you

Posted March 28, 2008 2:35 pm
Filed under: AS3, ActionScript, Articles by Paul, Opinions

I’ve been wanting to have strongly typed arrays in ActionScript for a long time. I was pretty excited when I read that it’s part of the EcmaScript 4th edition specification (in the form of the Vector class), and much more excited when I heard that the Vector class is being included in Flash Player “Astro” […]

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Adobe AIR 1.0 ships! SQL changes, and other thoughts

Posted March 24, 2008 2:04 pm
Filed under: AIR, Articles by Paul, Flex, Opinions, local SQL database

Now that Adobe AIR 1.0 is in the wild, I wanted to post an update about changes that happened with the local SQL database functionality between beta 3 and the final release. Plus, I’ve had some general thoughts about the release of the software that I thought I’d share.
For some reason, the final time that […]

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AIR beta 3 and local SQL database changes

Posted December 18, 2007 12:55 pm
Filed under: AIR, Articles by Paul, Flex, Opinions, Writing, local SQL database

Note: Sorry for the delay on this article. I composed this article a couple of weeks ago, and then I got busy with work and holidays and I forgot and didn’t publish it until now =(
If you’ve been following my posts on AIR and the SQL database functionality, you may have noticed a trend: every […]

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Flash Player Astro’s identity crisis (or “What will ActionScript be like when it ‘grows up’?”)

Posted October 15, 2007 1:09 pm
Filed under: ActionScript, Articles by Paul, Flash, Opinions

Note: On Nov. 1, 2007 I made a small change to the title of this article. The original title was “Flash Player Astro’s personality conflict…” (substituting “identity crisis” in the current title with “personality conflict”). However, I realized that “personality conflict” wasn’t the most accurate term for what I was trying to communicate, and “identity […]

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The future of Flex application frameworks-my thoughts

Posted October 12, 2007 9:55 am
Filed under: Application Design, Articles by Paul, Flex, Frameworks, Opinions

This post started out as my notes from the Oct. 11, 2007 SilvaFUG user’s group meeting, which included two talks on Flex application frameworks, but by the end I realized it was more of a restatement of (filtered through my opinion) some of the important forward-looking ideas that came out of the audience discussions and […]

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Why doesn’t Adobe’s AIR dev guide mention SQLite? A response to Tim Anderson

Posted June 19, 2007 11:11 pm
Filed under: AIR, Articles by Paul, Opinions, Writing, local SQL database

Yesterday Tim Anderson asked a question: “Why doesn’t Adobe’s AIR dev guide mention SQLite?” As the author of the “Working with local SQL databases” chapter in the AIR Developers Guide that Tim refers to, as well as the related sections of the AIR language reference, I guess I know better than most people the answer […]

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Book Review: ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook

Posted April 3, 2007 1:30 pm
Filed under: AS3, ActionScript, Articles by Paul, Book reviews, Opinions, Writing

With the release of Flex 2 and ActionScript 3.0, I started to watch for new books coming out. Admittedly the numbers have been smaller than I expected, but the first book to hit the shelves — one I’ve been anticipating with enthusiasm — is the ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook by Joey Lott, Darron Schall, and Keith […]

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