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Second Talk at RIAcon

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:48:00 +1100

I'm giving a second talk at RIAcon (6th and 7th August) in just over a week. Asynchronous unit testing with FlexUnit A lot of operations in Flex are asynchronous. Even simple operations can be asynchronous like setting the selected item on a Li...

Speaking at RIAcon in Washington DC in August

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:45:00 +1100

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 enable...

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

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:54:00 +1100

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 ad... [More]

Speaking at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles in October

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:55:00 +1100

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 ...

Arduino Platform (Part II)

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 03:02:00 +1100

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.... [More]

Arduino Platform (Part I)

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 07:21:00 +1100

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. [More]

"Frameworks are Bad, OK?" at 360Flex in Denver

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:14:00 +1100

Here is the pdf of the slides of my talk on "Frameworks are Bad, OK?" at 360Flex unconference in Denver USA. Download a PDF of my talk (1.4 MB) and here the sample Flex application implementing MVC without using a framework. Any questions on my t...

Speaking at 360|Flex Unconference in Denver in April

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:10:00 +1100

360|Flex is just around the corner and it's looks like an amazing conference this year, there are more than 50 sessions, a full day of training, birds of a feather mettings and even a code war. Lake a look at the schedule to see this year amazing lin...

I'm now a Adobe Community Champion

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:34:00 +1100

Adobe announced the new Adobe Community Professionals for 2011 yesterday. They also announced the program is being split into two, the Adobe Community Professionals and the Adobe Community Champions. I'm privileged to have been accepted (along wit...

Speaking at Flash and the City in New York in June

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 03:15:00 +1100

I'll be speaking about Arduinos and Flex at Flash and the City in New York in June. I attended Flash and the City last year and had a great time. The conference is unique1with it's city track showing you the sights of of New York. If learning abo...

Web Video on Desktop and Devices - Flash and HTML

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:47:00 +1100

Right now video is a bit of a mess on the web. The most widely supported platform for playing video on the desktop is Flash. But some devices notably the iPad and iPhone don't support Flash. If you want to be able to play your video on multiple plat... [More]

Must have Flash Builder plugins

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:52:00 +1100

Here's the list of useful Flash Builder plugins that I use on a daily basis when working on Flex projects. What Flex Builder plugins and tools do you do you use on a regular basis? [More]

cf.Objective(ANZ) Melbourne 2010 Review

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:10:00 +1100

cf.Objective(ANZ) was on a couple of weeks ago in Melbourne Australia. This was my third cf.Objective() event that I've spoken at and attended (two here in Australia and one in the US). I almost didn't make it due to an unschedule stop in Iceland but... [More]

ColdFusion Security and Risk Management at cf.Objective(ANZ) in Melbourne

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:21:00 +1100

Here is the pdf of the slides of my talk on Risk Management and ColdFusion Security at cf.Objective(ANZ) in Melbourne Australia. Download a PDF of my talk (480 Kb) or view on slide share. More information on some of the topics covered can be found ...

Heavy constructor JIT optimisation in ActionScript

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 03:42:00 +1100

I was running FlexPMD the other day over some code and it brought up this warning: "HeavyConstructor. Constructor must be as lightweight as possible. No control statement allowed, whereas a cyclomatic complexity of 2 has been detected. The Just-In-T... [More]