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.

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.

It was my first 360|Flex event that I've attended (other than speaking at the 360|Flex unconference at Adobe MAX last year) and it met all my expectations and more.

My hands-on connecting hardware to Flex all day session on Sunday was filled to capacity (40 people) I got great feedback from it and everyone got to take home an Arduino and a components kit (thanks to the sponsors of 360Flex and SparkFun). So anyone who was on the course tell me what you've done with it or what your plans are and if you need any help or inspiration contact me.

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Here is the code and a pdf of the slides of my talk on connecting open source hardware to the web at Web Standards Group in Sydney Australia.

Here is the ethernet Flex code, the LED Flex code and the Arduino code for demos.

Download a PDF of my talk (1.4 Mb) or view on slide share.

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

Tooltips are a great feature of the Flex charting components but it's an all or nothing affair either all your points display them or none of them do. Here a way so only the points you decide show tooltips when you mouse over them.

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I'm involved in a project that is using the flexlib WindowShade component and it generally works well unless its content is resized. Here's a simple fix for this.

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