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cf.Objective(ANZ) dates and venue set

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:24:00 +1100

cf.Objective(ANZ) dates and venue have been announced. The conference will be on 18th and 19th November in Melbourne Australia at the Rydges Hotel. so mark the dates in your calendar now! The official call for speakers and ticket prices will be an...

360|Flex San Jose 2010 Review

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:46:00 +1100

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 ca... [More]

Connecting open source hardware to the web at the Sydney Web Standards Group

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:58:00 +1100

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...

cf.Objective(ANZ) is on again later this year

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:13:00 +1100

cf.Objective(ANZ) will return to Melbourne, Australia in late 2010. I'm on the cf.Objective(ANZ) committee and along with Kai Koenig will be organising the sessions and speakers. There no exact dates at this time and this is not an official call f... [More]

Controlling tooltip display in a Flex PlotChart

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:48:00 +1100

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. [More]

How to fix Flexlib WindowShade resize issues

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:24:00 +1100

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. [More]

Setting up access to Flex Remote Objects without access to WEB-INF directory

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:42:00 +1100

When creating a project in Flex Builder if you select the application server type as J2EE you need to have access to the WEB-INF flex folder of the server and the services-config.xml configuration file of the remote server. So what do you do if you ... [More]

Speaking at Web Standard Group in Sydney in February

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:04:00 +1100

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 c...

Remote ActionScript Dynamic Endpoints

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:40:00 +1100

When using remote objects in Flex (for BlazeDS) you may want to change the endpoint (server, port and context root) and switch between servers. This is useful if your development environment contains both testing and production servers (as it should)... [More]

I'm now a Adobe Community Professional

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:41:00 +1100

Adobe announced today the name change of the old Adobe Community Experts program to the shinny new Adobe Community Professionals program. They also announced the list of the people who are in the program and I was one of them. It's great to see a str...

Speaking at Webinale in Berlin in June

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:27:00 +1100

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 interest...

Putting your device in the browser and on the web at LCA2010 Arduino mini conference

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:24:00 +1100

Here is the code and a pdf of the slides of my talk on putting your (arduino) device in the browser and on the web at linux.conf.au 2010 as part of the arduino mini conference in Wellington New Zealand. Here is the LED code, the Pebble code and t...

Speaking at cf.Objective() in Minneapolis in April

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:30:00 +1100

I'll be speaking about ColdFusion security and risk management at cf.Objective() in Minneapolis in April. The speakers have been announced and the line up is fantastic. Good to see fellow Australian Mark Mandel speaking and many of the best known ...

Making an Arduino Web Server at Adobe Platform User Group

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:19:00 +1100

On Monday night at the Adobe Platform User Group we had several short presentations of 6 minuted 40 seconds in length consisting of 20 slides of 20 seconds each (known as Pecha Kucha). There was a wide variety of topics covered in the talks includin... [More]

Speaking at 360|Flex in San Jose in March

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:45:00 +1100

I will be speaking or rather running a one day course on how to connect the Arduino hardware platform to Flex at 360|Flex in San Jose (March 7th-10th). [More]