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		<title>Slides, examples, and links: Developing iPhone apps with the Flash Platform</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2010/03/16/slides-and-examples-developing-iphone-apps-flash-platform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I gave a presentation at 360&#124;Flex 2010 (San Jose) on &#8220;Developing iPhone apps with the Flash Platform.&#8221; As always, I wanted to make my slides, notes, reference links, and example code available to those who were there and those who couldn&#8217;t make it: Download slides, links, and example code (3.1 MB .zip) 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>Release day for Flash Player, AIR, and &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2008/04/08/release-day-for-adobe-flash-platform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of big releases for Adobe AIR and Flash Player today. In no particular order: Security update for Flash Player (&#8220;9.4&#8221;) (also see the DevNet article) Security update for Adobe AIR (&#8220;1.0.1&#8221;) New public Flash Player bugbase (also see the DevNet article) Adobe Media Player 1.0 (with a lot more content now that it&#8217;s final [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Adobe Dev Center articles (Flash deep-linking and Flash CS3 DataGrid)</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/11/13/two-developer-center-articles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago I was asked to re-purpose two of my previous articles from this site for publication on the Adobe Developer Center (now renamed as the &#8220;Adobe Developer Connection&#8221;). The first one was published in September 2007, and the second was just published yesterday. So in a way this is sort of a revisiting [...]]]></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>Learn ActionScript from Colin Moock for free!</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/09/11/learn-actionscript-from-colin-moock-for-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tours are starting to be all the rage with Adobe (and others). With the launch of CS3 Adobe did a conference tour, and of course there&#8217;s the onAIR bus tour that&#8217;s making it&#8217;s way around the country promoting AIR. Now, if you or someone you know is a Flash designer with almost-none-to-basic ActionScript experience, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to: determining when data is edited using the Flash CS3 DataGrid component</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/05/01/flash-cs3-datagrid-detecting-data-change/</link>
		<comments>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/05/01/flash-cs3-datagrid-detecting-data-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 18:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: a version of this article was posted on the Adobe Developer Center in November 2007. That article is based heavily on this one &#8212; essentially I took the text here, and revised a few sentences and word choices for clarity. However, if you&#8217;re interested in the &#8220;latest&#8221; version, you can find it here: &#8220;Detecting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent thinking on open source Flash Player</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/04/11/thinking-on-open-source-flash-player/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The arguments are being made, and not just by the stereotypical open source advocates: some big-name industry analysts are suggesting that Flash Player should go open source, and that it won&#8217;t have the negative impacts that I and many others worry about: Anne Zelenka: &#8220;Why Open is Good and How Open Could Be Good for [...]]]></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>Loading a cfform SWF into another SWF</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/03/06/loading-cfform-into-swf/</link>
		<comments>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/03/06/loading-cfform-into-swf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t written about ColdFusion Flash Forms in a while (I&#8217;m a Flex user now that you no longer need a server to create the content). However, this morning I got an interesting question from &#8220;trifide&#8221; that I hadn&#8217;t considered before, so I&#8217;m making a brief return into cfform land: There are many attempts to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>XML-RPC client updated</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/01/10/xml-rpc-client-updated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case anybody follows my site just to get updates on my XML-RPC client library&#8230; I&#8217;ve just released an updated version of my XML-RPC client library project. The library is still in ActionScript 2.0&#8212;I haven&#8217;t finished porting it to ActionScript 3.0 yet, although I&#8217;ve started. This release (.3 beta) contains a single bug fix. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Deep-linking&#8221; to different frames/states in a Flash application</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2006/12/14/deep-linking-flash-application-states/</link>
		<comments>http://probertson.com/articles/2006/12/14/deep-linking-flash-application-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: a new article based on this one was published on the Adobe Developer Center in September 2007. The article (&#8220;Deep-linking to frames in Flash websites&#8221;) includes more background and detail of the first technique (the no-code approach) described in this article, but doesn&#8217;t discuss any of the other approaches. I got an email from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flash 8 Advanced: Another sample chapter (Video)</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2006/10/30/flash-8-advanced-sample-chapter-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just discovered that another sample chapter of my book, this time the chapter on Flash Video, has been made available by the publisher. The book is &#8220;Macromedia Flash 8 Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide&#8221; (Peachpit Press), by Russell Chun and me. The chapter is chapter 2, &#8220;Working with Video.&#8221; It covers converting video to FLV [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problem (and solution) : getURL() in a Flash projector fails in Firefox</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2006/10/11/geturl-flash-projector-firefox-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://probertson.com/articles/2006/10/11/geturl-flash-projector-firefox-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Windows, using  <code>getURL()</code> or a similar approach to open an HTML page from a SWF running in the standalone Flash Player (such as a Flash projector file running on a CD-ROM) doesn't work if the user has Firefox set as their default browser. Here we'll take a look at what's causing the problem and how to work around it.]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing local and remote resources in a locally running SWF</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2006/10/06/local-remote-resources-local-swf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I got a question about accessing local and remote resources from a SWF running locally: I have a question. You say that in your presentation &#8220;[When they&#8217;re running locally,] SWF files are set to load local files only or remote files only &#8212; if you want to load the other type, [...]]]></description>
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