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		<title>&#8220;Adobe AIR data privacy and security&#8221; - slides, notes, links</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 20, 2009 at the 360&#124;Flex conference in Indianapolis I gave a presentation titled &#8220;Adobe AIR data privacy and security.&#8221; As I always do (and after a bit of a delay), here are the slides from my presentation. I&#8217;ve added fairly lengthy notes to the slides (I had to make the font smaller so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts from 360&#124;Flex day one</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 03:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few things that stood out to me the most in this great day at the greatest Flex conference on the planet: FlexUnit 4. Wow. Big update. Very nice new features. Time to get (back) into it. (presentation by Michael Labriola) Renaun Erickson&#8217;s Structured Log Testing framework. Another great, unexpected surprise. I didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A busy (and exciting) May for the Flex community</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2009/05/05/a-busy-may-for-flex-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 19:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you&#8217;ve missed the announcements, the month of May feels like it&#8217;s overflowing with community events. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s on my schedule so far for May 2009 (And I strongly endorse these. With the possible exception of the third one =): SilvaFUG North (SF) May meeting (May 12): This is basically a pre-event for FlashCamp, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>360&#124;Flex slides for &#8220;AIR SQLite: An optimization conversation&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2008/08/22/360flex-slides-for-air-sqlite-optimization-conversation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updates (Oct. 30, 2008): The video of my presentation has been posted, so I added a link to it at the bottom of this post. Also, I just learned about another AIR-based SQLite admin tool which looks interesting, so I added it to the list of resources even though it&#8217;s obviously not discussed in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slides and files for &#8220;AIR, Windows, Menus, and the System Tray&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2008/06/04/slides-and-files-for-air-windows-menus-and-the-system-tray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, a couple of weeks ago at the Webmaniacs conference I presented a session titled &#8220;Adobe AIR: Windows, Menus, and the System Tray&#8221; (and I also presented the same material in a partially different form over the course of two SilvaFUG meetings. The presentation covers those three aspects of Adobe AIR, specifically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New ActionScript unit testing framework</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2008/05/01/new-actionscript-unit-testing-framework/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 03:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in November 2005 (yes, 2.5 years ago!) I wrote an article about how data types and type checking work in ActionScript. ActionScript is different than many languages, in that the ActionScript compiler can be used for compile-time type checking (or not), and at runtime it is a strongly typed language, but it also has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flex 4 (&#8220;Gumbo&#8221;) - first details revealed</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2008/04/11/flex-gumbo-details-revealed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first details of the overarching &#8220;themes&#8221; for Flex 4 (&#8220;Gumbo&#8221;) have been posted on the Flex open source wiki. Four themes are listed (&#8220;Design in Mind&#8221;, &#8220;Accelerated Development&#8221;, &#8220;Horizontal Platform Improvements&#8221;, and &#8220;Broadening Horizons&#8221;) although currently only &#8220;Design in Mind&#8221; has any details. And what nice details they are! Here are a few highlights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source Flex Visual Graph Library</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2008/04/02/open-source-flex-visual-graph-library/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago at a SilvaFUG meeting I saw a demo of some graph visualization libraries &#8212; the kind of thing you use to create a graph showing nodes linked together according to various relationships. The current &#8220;favorite&#8221; is the Flex Visual Graph Library (FVGL) Open Source Project. Their Visual Graph explorer sample [...]]]></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>Worth watching: Flex application frameworks presentations</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/10/18/flex-application-frameworks-presentations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I posted some of my thoughts on the future of Flex application frameworks, which were my take-aways from the October Silicon valley Flex user&#8217;s group (a.k.a. &#8220;SilvaFUG&#8221;) users group meeting. In that post I strongly recommended watching the recordings of the presentations. The recordings are available now, so once again I highly recommend [...]]]></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>Knowing when to not use AIR</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/09/14/knowing-when-to-not-use-air/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simplified Chaos has an insightful article about deciding when to use AIR and when to stick to browser-based Flash/Flex. His recommendation is to use the browser by default, and only move to AIR if you really need that desktop functionality. His reasoning, which I can agree with, is that people are much less likely to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brandon Ellis&#8217;s DataAccess Utility class</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/06/19/brandon-ellis-dataaccess-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re looking to simplify the local database access part of your AIR app, this might be the ticket. Brandon Ellis has written a no-frills wrapper class for AIR local database operations. The biggest benefit it provides is that if you add, delete, or update data in a table, it automatically updates whatever component is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resources for getting started with FlexUnit</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/04/11/flexunit-getting-started-resources/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been finishing up migrating my XML-RPC client library to ActionScript 3.0. First task, according to my own recommendation: write more unit tests. Even though the unit tests I wrote for the ActionScript 2.0 version of the library used ASUnit, this time around I decided to go with the &#8220;home team&#8221; (i.e. developed by Adobe [...]]]></description>
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