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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/2009/05/27/pittmfug-preso-swfaddress-for-as3-in-five-steps/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/?p=266</guid>
		<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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>Web Design Day Slides</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/2009/04/04/web-design-day-slides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/?p=240</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A big thanks to everyone who came out to Pittsburgh Web Design Day today.  You guys made it the event as good as it was. I had an awesome time! It was great to meet some new people and hang out with some old friends, too.
Thanks to everyone who sent me a note via [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little bit of SxSW Inspiration (and I wasn’t even there)</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/2009/03/26/a-little-bit-of-sxsw-inspiration-and-i-wasnt-even-there/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/2009/03/26/a-little-bit-of-sxsw-inspiration-and-i-wasnt-even-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn't at SXSW this year, and neither was Ben. But a little project of ours, ThemeSong,  was mentioned at Kathy Sierra's Making Breakthroughs Happens Session. I thought that was pretty cool. 
Honestly, the only reason it came into being beyond our office was that there was a PittMFUG meeting coming up and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Bit of Code: Using ColorPicker Component (AS3)</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/2009/03/25/quick-bit-of-code-using-colorpicker-component-as3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisportable.com/blog/2009/03/25/quick-bit-of-code-using-colorpicker-component-as3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This little example comes from a recent freelance project I was working on.  The task was to switch the colour of both a TextArea and a MovieClip that were already placed on the stage.  This is the first time I had a reason to use the colorPicker component, and for a first time [...]]]></description>
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