Speaking at RIAcon in Washington DC in August

I'm giving a preview version of my Adobe MAX talk at RIAcon (6th and 7th August) in just over a week.

Realtime programming with Arduino and WebSockets

Arduino is a low cost, easy to program open source hardware and software platform than enables you to communication in real time with the physical world. This session looks at how to interact with Arduino hardware directly from a web browser using the WebSocket protocol and the Socket.IO javascript library. We'll start out by tuning LEDs on and off and progress to creating graphs that react in real time to environmental sensors.

RIACon

Tickets to RIACon are only $99 for two days and the conference is limited to 150 attendees. Here is the list of sessions.

Come along and meet with some of the best people in the ColdFusion, Flex, JavaScript and jQuery communities.

A Practical Guide to Connecting Hardware to Flex at Flash and the City

I recently gave a talk on using the Flex and the Arduino platform together for the Flash and the City conference in New York.

You can download a PDF of my talk (2 Mb) or view on slide share. The talk was recorded as soon as I get the link I'll add it here as well.

The talk showed how to to turn LEDs connected to an Arduino on and off from Flex, how to control the size of shapes in Flex from an Arduino and to communication with an Arduino XML web server from Flex.

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Speaking at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles in October

Bring your own device

I'll be running a 3 hour BYOD (Bring your own device) session at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles in October.

Adobe MAX

I missed out on Adobe MAX last year (and Droid and Google TV device giveaways). It's a long way to go from Australia and you can only go to so many conferences in one year. :-) I'm really excited to going this year, there's a huge amount of content (currently 137 sessions and I'm sure more will be added!).

Here's the brief on my session:

Real-time Programming with Arduino using WebSockets

Learn how you can communicate in real time with the physical world using Arduino, a low-cost, easy-to-program open source hardware and software platform. This session looks at how to interact with Arduino hardware directly from a web browser using the WebSockets protocol and the Socket.IO JavaScript library. We'll start out by turning LEDs on and off and progress to creating graphs that react in real time to environmental sensors.

Arduino Platform (Part II)

Here is the pdf of the slides of my online talk on "Arduino Platform Part II" for asDevs Download a PDF of my talk (3.5 MB).

The session was recorded and you can listen and view it here.

Any questions on my talk just comment below or email me.

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Arduino Platform (Part I)

Here is the pdf of the slides of my online talk on "Arduino Platform Part I" for asDevs Download a PDF of my talk (5.8 MB).

The session was recorded and you can listen and view it here.

Any questions on my talk just comment below or email me.

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cf.Objective(ANZ) all set to go

The workshops, sessions and speakers have been announced for cf.Objective(ANZ) and it's going to be a fantastic conference. It's being held in Melbourne Australia on the 17th (workshops), 18th and 19th of November.

I'll be giving a talk on ColdFusion security and risk analysis and showing how you can decide on what security features are effective and that you should implement on your project.

I'll also be running a one day hands on workshop on the open source Arduino platform and how you can hook it up to Flex and ColdFusion. By the end of the day you'll have a basic understanding of electronics components, digital and anolog inputs and outputs, how to use the Arduino platform and how it can communicate with the outside world.

Kai Koening is running a workshop on Flex 4 for ColdFusion developers and Charlie Arehart is running a workshop on solving ColdFusion performance and reliability issues.

Early bird pricing ends 31st of August. It's cheaper than last year so you have no excuse not to come along.

Bringing RIAs and Hardware together at Webinale in Berlin

Here is the code and a pdf of the slides of my talk on bringing RIAs hardware together at Webinale in Berlin Germany.

Flex code for all the demos and Arduino code for the demos.

Download a PDF of my talk (2 Mb) or view on slide share.

Any questions on my talk just comment below or email me.

Connecting Hardware up to ColdFusion at cf.Objective() in Minneapolis

Here is the code and a pdf of the slides of my talk on connecting hardware to ColdFusion at cf.Objective() in Minneapolis USA.

ColdFusion code (including the Arduino and Socket CFCs) for all the demos and Arduino code for the demos.

The Arduino ColdFusion socket code is up on RIA Forge.

Download a PDF of my talk (2.2 Mb) or view on slide share.

Any questions on my talk just comment below or email me.

Speaking at Web Standard Group in Sydney in February

I'll be giving a talk on open source hardware and the Arduino platform at the Web Standards Group in Sydney on the 24th February.

If you want know more about the Ardunio platform and how easy it is to connect open source hardware to the internet come along.

Speaking at Webinale in Berlin in June

I'll be speaking about Arduinos and RIAs at Webinale in Berlin in June. Thanks goes to Kai Koening who's organising the RIA stream for the conference.

I've not been to Germany before and don't speak a word of German so it's going to be an interesting experience and i'm looking forward to it. The tracks and sessions are starting to fill out. Some of them (including mine) will be in English (thankfully).

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