Topic: Articles by Paul

AIR 1.5 encrypted SQLite database — how to use it, best practices, and new projects

Posted November 18, 2008 1:30 am
Filed under: AIR, Articles by Paul, Life at Adobe, Projects, Tutorials, Writing, local SQL database

Over a year ago I described a potential area of concern for using a SQLite database with an AIR application — because all apps use the same database engine, any AIR app can read any other app’s database (as long as it can find the database file).
As you may have heard among all the news […]

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360|Flex slides for “AIR SQLite: An optimization conversation”

Posted August 22, 2008 5:16 pm
Filed under: AIR, Articles by Paul, Flex, Frameworks, Presentations, Projects, SQL, Tutorials, local SQL database

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’s obviously not discussed in the […]

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Slides and files for “AIR, Windows, Menus, and the System Tray”

Posted June 4, 2008 4:24 pm
Filed under: AIR, Articles by Paul, Flex, Presentations, Tutorials

As I’ve mentioned before, a couple of weeks ago at the Webmaniacs conference I presented a session titled “Adobe AIR: Windows, Menus, and the System Tray” (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 […]

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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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Upcoming presentations on AIR Windows, Menus, and the System Tray

Posted April 15, 2008 10:27 am
Filed under: AIR, Articles by Paul, Presentations

I have a couple of presentations coming up soon, and I haven’t been getting word out as much as I probably should have.

At the end of May I’ll be speaking at the Webmaniacs conference in Washington D.C. (May 19-23). I’m giving a two hour hands-on session titled “AIR: Windows, Menus, and the System Tray.” The […]

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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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New Adobe Dev Center articles (Flash deep-linking and Flash CS3 DataGrid)

Posted November 13, 2007 11:14 am
Filed under: AS3, ActionScript, Articles by Paul, Flash, Tutorials, Writing

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 “Adobe Developer Connection”). 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 […]

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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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