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		<title>New article &#8220;Programming with the Vector class&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago (probably almost a year ago) I wrote an article for the Adobe Developer Connection titled &#8220;Programming with the Vector class.&#8221; As you can surely guess, the article is about the Vector class, which provides typed array functionality (an array whose elements are required to all be instances of the same data type). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funny coding behaviors</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2009/03/10/funny-coding-behaviors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: this is just a silly little note, perhaps the first such on this site although my personal site primarily consists of such little tidbits, mostly about my kids. A few years ago I was working as a developer for a computer training department at a large midwestern university*. I also wrote and taught training [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIR 1.5 encrypted SQLite database &#8212; how to use it, best practices, and new projects</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2008/11/18/air-1_5-encrypted-sqlite-database-how-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over a year ago I described a potential area of concern for using a SQLite database with an AIR application &#8212; because all apps use the same database engine, any AIR app can read any other app&#8217;s database (as long as it can find the database file). As you may have heard among all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Player 10/Flash CS4 documentation now available</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2008/10/14/flash-player-10-flash-cs4-documentation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why haven't I written anything in a while? Well, I've written lots -- just not on this site! The final Flash Player 10 and Flash CS4 documentation is out the door and live on the web. Here I've listed my favorite parts and some top-level links to help you get started with the new features in Flash Player 10.]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Player 10 documentation available on labs</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2008/05/21/flash-player-10-documentation-available-on-labs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 18:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lee Brimelow has just pointed out that the Flash Player 10 documentation is available for download on Adobe Labs. I&#8217;m excited that this is public, so I can start talking about it more &#8212; I&#8217;ve been working on the documentation for several months now =) On a personal note, the screenshot that Lee posted for [...]]]></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>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>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>AIR, local SQL databases, and my role</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2007/06/11/adobe-air-local-sql-databases-and-my-role/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As everyone knows, today Adobe released a public beta of AIR (formerly "Apollo"). As you likely know, since it was announced last week, one of the big new features in this release is an integrated database engine that allows AIR applications to create and use local SQL databases. I'm really excited about this, both because it's really awesome to be able to access a database directly from ActionScript, and (on a personal level) because it means I can finally talk about what I've been working on for the last couple of months. Yes, in fact, my latest assignment at Adobe primarily involves working on the AIR local SQL database functionality.]]></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>
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		<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>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>Flash 8 Advanced: sample chapter on Adobe design center</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2006/08/03/flash-8-advanced-sample-chapter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you&#8217;re curious about scripting sound in Flash 8 ActionScript, or you just want to see a sample of a Flash book, Adobe recently posted a sample chapter (well, actually half a chapter) from my book &#8220;Macromedia Flash 8 Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide&#8221; in their site&#8217;s design center. The chapter that was chosen (I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent silence and Flash 8 book</title>
		<link>http://probertson.com/articles/2005/09/28/my-flash-8-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who&#8217;s read more than one of my articles knows I don&#8217;t lack for words. So why has the usually verbose (at least in post length, if not frequency) Paul Robertson been so quiet lately? Sorry, no big secret, but a big announcement I guess (at least it&#8217;s big for me). I&#8217;ve been working on [...]]]></description>
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