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		<title>Changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 08:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately I can&#8217;t give this topic the time it deserves right now, but for those of you who are interested I wanted to let you know of some &#8220;significant life changes&#8221; that are happening to me. Summary New job. New city. New house. Moving tomorrow. Offline for a week or two. Don&#8217;t say anything important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am 360&#124;Flex (and so can you!)</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2010/02/18/i-am-360flex-and-so-can-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next <a href="http://360flex.com/">360&#124;Flex conference</a> is coming up quickly -- <a href="http://360flex.eventbrite.com/">March 7-10, 2010 in San Jose, California</a>. 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&#124;Flex (and other) conferences I've been to, and about how much they've impacted me professionally and personally. (Hint: a lot.)]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on multi-screen, multi-context app development</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2010/02/09/thoughts-on-multi-screen-context-app-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t going to become anything in the Adobe documentation. So I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adobe opens door for creating alternative SWF players</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2008/04/30/adobe-opens-door-fo-alternative-swf-players/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 05:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adobe just announced a new project called the Open Screen Project. There&#8217;s a lot going on with the project, so I won&#8217;t try to summarize all the different points and partners. If you read through the material, you&#8217;ll see that a lot of it talks about opening the door for improving access and presentation/experience for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strongly typed arrays &#8212; coming to ActionScript near you</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2008/03/28/vector-as3-strongly-typed-arrays-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wanting to have strongly typed arrays in ActionScript for a long time. I was pretty excited when I read that it&#8217;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 &#8220;Astro&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adobe AIR 1.0 ships! SQL changes, and other thoughts</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2008/03/24/air-1_0-final-sql-changes-and-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;ve had some general thoughts about the release of the software that I thought I&#8217;d share. For some reason, the final time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIR beta 3 and local SQL database changes</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/12/18/air-beta-3-and-local-sql-database-changes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t publish it until now =( If you&#8217;ve been following my posts on AIR and the SQL database functionality, you may have noticed a trend: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Player Astro&#8217;s identity crisis (or &#8220;What will ActionScript be like when it &#8216;grows up&#8217;?&#8221;)</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/10/15/future-actionscript-apis-high-level-or-low-level/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: On Nov. 1, 2007 I made a small change to the title of this article. The original title was &#8220;Flash Player Astro&#8217;s personality conflict&#8230;&#8221; (substituting &#8220;identity crisis&#8221; in the current title with &#8220;personality conflict&#8221;). However, I realized that &#8220;personality conflict&#8221; wasn&#8217;t the most accurate term for what I was trying to communicate, and &#8220;identity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The future of Flex application frameworks-my thoughts</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/10/12/flex-frameworks-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post started out as my notes from the Oct. 11, 2007 SilvaFUG user&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why doesn&#8217;t Adobe&#8217;s AIR dev guide mention SQLite? A response to Tim Anderson</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/06/19/air-sql-docs-dont-mention-sqlite-my-response/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Tim Anderson asked a question: &#8220;Why doesn&#8217;t Adobe&#8217;s AIR dev guide mention SQLite?&#8221; As the author of the &#8220;Working with local SQL databases&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/04/03/actionscript-3-cookbook-review/</link>
		<comments>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/04/03/actionscript-3-cookbook-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8212; one I&#8217;ve been anticipating with enthusiasm &#8212; is the ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook by Joey Lott, Darron Schall, and Keith [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Introduction to ActionScript 3.0&#8221;: slides, files, and recording</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/03/15/actionscript-3-introduction-files/</link>
		<comments>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/03/15/actionscript-3-introduction-files/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back (February 21, 2007) I gave a presentation titled &#8220;Introduction to ActionScript 3.0&#8221; to the Indiana University Flash Users&#8217; Group. The bulk of the presentation was a comparison between previous ActionScript versions and ActionScript 3.0, looking at syntax, the object model, event handling, how code runs in Flash Player, and more. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multiple AS3 classes in one file</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2006/07/28/one-file-many-as3-classes/</link>
		<comments>http://probertson.com/articles/2006/07/28/one-file-many-as3-classes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since you could do it in early betas of Flex 2, but can't seem to now, some people have been wondering if it's possible to have multiple ActionScript 3.0 classes defined in a single .as file. Here's a look at how to do it, and why you might or might not want to.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;YouTube&#8221; as a video format?!?</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2006/06/21/youtube-video-format/</link>
		<comments>http://probertson.com/articles/2006/06/21/youtube-video-format/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 23:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was a little surprised by a web page which offered a video in three different formats: Windows Media, QuickTime and ... YouTube? Here are a few thoughts on this, leading to the conclusion that Flash Player might be too ubiquitous for its own good.]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Foundation ActionScript Animation</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2006/02/08/foundation-actionscript-animation-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've been a longtime fan of the work of Keith Peters. For years he's given away examples on his web site; however, I've always found it to be a bit of work to dissect his examples and figure out how and why they work the way they do. So frankly my biggest reason for wanting to read this book was the hope that I would get insight into "how Keith Peters thinks."]]></description>
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