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		<title>Flashpitt – next month!</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/2009/09/07/flashpitt-next-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the second year in a row, we&#8217;re putting on the Pittsburgh area&#8217;s Flash-centric event, Flashpitt.  I&#8217;m really excited to be putting on the event again this year!  Thanks to all your feedback last year, we&#8217;ve added a day of workshops to the schedule this year, too.  But we&#8217;ll still have the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Typekit and type as a service</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/2009/08/31/on-typekit-and-type-as-a-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/?p=335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been sitting on this post for a while because I couldn&#8217;t quite get my thoughts on this web fonts as a service topic straight. Then, a couple of days ago, I got into a big conversation about web fonts with friends, and having to put my thoughts into words make things a lot more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two really awesome Pittsburgh based projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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It seems like there&#8217;s been an influx of really awesome things happening in Pittsburgh lately.  Here&#8217;s two tech related projects that I&#8217;m finding particularly exciting. 
iBurgh
This is an app done by the YinzCam folks for reporting city issues via your iPhone.  This Engadget post talks about how it works.
It&#8217;s reported that Pittsburgh is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The things you pass by every day</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/2009/07/12/the-things-you-pass-by-every-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>val</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of years, I noticed that I pass a lot of hand painted signs on my ride to work.  I always tell myself that I&#8217;ll go take pictures of them one day, but of course, I never did.  Until today that is. 
On my way back from the office this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IE6 users don’t want to be “warned”, “notified”, or anything else.</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/2009/07/06/ie6-users-dont-want/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>val</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/?p=305</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[IE6 may have just cost you hours of your life that you&#8217;ll never get back, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that all IE6 users are clueless slobs that go around kicking puppies. Not at all.  They are real people, even smart people.   
A lot of the suggestions I&#8217;ve read for getting rid of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flashbelt 2009 review</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/2009/06/16/flashbelt-2009-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>val</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/?p=288</guid>
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(photo: Small section of Jer Thorp&#8217;s piece in the data art show at Flashbelt.)
I went to Flashbelt last week with some big expectations.  I&#8217;d heard so many good things about it, and pretty much everyone I talked to told me it was the best Flash conference out there.  So, like I said,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PittMFUG Preso:  SWFAddress for AS3 in five steps</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/2009/05/27/pittmfug-preso-swfaddress-for-as3-in-five-steps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 20:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did a quick presentation at the May PittMFUG meeting last week.  If you want to use SWFaddress but don&#8217;t want to use frame labels for your site &#8220;states&#8221;,  you might want to check out the example files. 
I walked through the five steps needed to set up SWFAddress for your full-Flash site. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Locking down input Textfields (AS3)</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/2009/05/10/locking-down-input-textfields-as3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 15:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Huge disclaimer for this post:  Messing with the default behaviour of text fields is a huge usability red flag.  There are VERY few cases where this is acceptable, so use with caution. 
Assuming you have a very good reason for needing to restrict which keys/characters can be entered into an input textfield, keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A proper Web Design Day follow up: Client relationship resources</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/2009/04/23/a-proper-web-design-day-follow-up-client-relationship-resources/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/2009/04/23/a-proper-web-design-day-follow-up-client-relationship-resources/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>val</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/?p=249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been meaning to write this post for a while.  It's more of a proper follow up to my Web Design Day Presentation. I know my slides pretty light on content when I'm not actually there doing the talking.  So, I wanted to share a few of the resources and posts I've found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Industry trend? a blog instead of Flash?</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/2009/04/23/industry-trend-a-blog-instead-of-flash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/2009/04/23/industry-trend-a-blog-instead-of-flash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>val</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/?p=243</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it a trend?  A somewhat slowly forming trend if it is.
Big name interactive shops are redesigning their previously Flash-based sites to be more blog based.  Last week, Big Spaceship unveiled a new site that is completely blog-based and social media driven.  Not so long ago, Barbarian group made a similar change [...]]]></description>
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