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	<title>The random utterances of David Arno</title>
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		<title>QCon Day 3: Without an acronym, you are nothing and other ramblings</title>
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Event-driven architecture
The first talk of the day, by Stefan   Norberg, was frustrating for me as it really brought home how much we constantly re-invent the wheel with software. The talk described &#8220;domain events&#8221; and &#8220;Event Driven Architecture&#8221;. This is a centralised event system, whereby events are dispatched, stored in a message queue and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidarno.org/2010/03/12/qcon-day-3-without-an-acronym-you-are-nothing-and-other-ramblings/</link>
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		<title>QCon day 1: Craftsmanship &amp; functional languages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had been somewhat apprehensive of the first day of this year&#8217;s QCon London as the schedule didn&#8217;t really excite me. The &#8220;Architectures You&#8217;ve Always Wondered About&#8221;, &#8220;Non-Relational DBs &#38; Web Oriented Data &#8221; and &#8220;Solution&#8221; tracks aren&#8217;t really my thing and the &#8220;Dev and Ops: A single team&#8221; and &#8220;Software Craftsmanship&#8221; tracks sounded like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidarno.org/2010/03/10/qcon-day-1-craftsmanship-functional-languages/</link>
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		<title>AS4 Feature proposal: improved varargs support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ActionScript 3 (AS3) currently provides incomplete support for varardic functions. This is a proposal for improving that support in AS4.
AS3 provides support for &#8220;varargs&#8221; via the use of an ellipsis before the last parameter in either a constructor or method declaration. To put that into simpler terms, consider the following code:

function f&#40;...args&#41;:void
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  for each [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidarno.org/2010/02/27/as4-feature-proposal-improved-varargs-support/</link>
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		<title>ActionScript signals, events and interfaces</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Signals is a great new ActionScript Framework which offers an alternative to Flex Events. Whilst it has a nice set of features that give it advantages over Flex events, there is one claimed benefit that I find difficult to accept. This selling point, popular with signals fans, is that an interface can specify a signal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidarno.org/2010/02/24/actionscript-signals-events-and-interfaces/</link>
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		<title>AS4 Feature proposal: Type inference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series of articles I plan on creating addressing important features that I feel are missing from ActionScript 3. They are features that I&#8217;d like to see added to a future version of ActionScript, which I&#8217;ve assumed would be called ActionScript 4 (AS4).
This first article is on type inference. So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidarno.org/2010/02/22/as4-feature-proposal-type-inference/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Doc?&#8221; &#8211; a great Flash/ Flex developer tool (and its free)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doc? is  AIR-based API reading tool. It can be used to build up an indexed set of ASDoc-generated API documents that are held locally on your computer, rather than having to be accessed online. To create a library, one points it at the index.html of all the online (or offline) API sources you use and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidarno.org/2010/02/16/doc-a-great-flash-flex-developer-tool-and-its-free/</link>
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		<title>Your choice: whine about Flash crashing, or help make it better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In recent months, there has been a lot of criticism of the reliability of the Flash runtime. One of the keys to reliable software is testing. To that end, Adobe is asking folk to help it make the upcoming flash runtimes (Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0) as reliable as possible. So if you are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidarno.org/2010/02/08/your-choice-whine-about-flash-crashing-or-help-make-it-better/</link>
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		<title>Why the iPhone User Interface is clunky and why I don&#8217;t care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From http://www.yourdictionary.com/clunky
clunky (kluŋk′ē)
adjective clunkier clunk′·i·er, clunkiest clunk′·i·est

 clumsy or awkward
not stylish or attractive
making a clunking sound

First of all, let me make clear that I have an iPhone and I love it. Secondly, I feel it is stylish and attractive and have never heard it make a clunking sound. By &#8220;clunky&#8221; I mean it is &#8220;clumsy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidarno.org/2010/01/28/why-the-iphone-user-interface-is-clunky-and-why-i-dont-care/</link>
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		<title>Become a better developer: listen to podcasts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four years ago I was a web developer using VBScript and ASP, with a tiny bit of Flash occasionally thrown in. Prior to web development, I&#8217;d not done much else with my career aside from a great many years of C/C++ programming, some lex and yacc work and writing Korn Shell scripts. Then two things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidarno.org/2010/01/11/become-a-better-developer-listen-to-podcasts/</link>
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		<title>Long may the iPhone remain Flash-free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When is Flash coming to the iPhone?&#8221; seems to be a commonly asked question of Adobe. It&#8217;s clear from the likes of Lee Brimelow that it is a question that causes great consternation within that company. They want Flash on the iPhone, of that there is little doubt. Flash is available on Windows, OS X [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidarno.org/2010/01/06/long-may-the-iphone-remain-flash-free/</link>
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