Andrew Spaulding (Sydney, Australia)
Andrew is a Systems Engineer for Adobe in Australia. Andrew started in IT as a User Interface developer for Achilles Foundation in 2003. After migrating the UI from various Java mixes to Flex, Andrew left Achilles Foundation to become a contract Flex developer, working on multiple Flex projects throughout Australia. This then led to a career with Macromedia in October 2005, now Adobe Systems, where he provided support for customers around Asia Pacific; and more recently progressing to a technical sales role as a Systems Engineer.Flex in Acrobat, it’s more than lipstick on a pig!
Session change from Ted's Flex Inside Out. Join Andrew as he takes a different look at how developers can leverage their Flex skills. With the Flash runtime now included with Adobe Reader 9 you can include embedded rich media assets and even interact with them... it's PDF meets Web 2.0, is that possible? Come and see! More...
Build multi-user Real Time Collaboration applications with Flex and AIR
Text chat, like email before it, has reshaped the business world. Video conferencing is becoming more commonplace every day. In this session learn to leverage various real-time/collaborative tools within your Flex and AIR applications. Build a chat application using BlazeDS, maintain data synchronization with LiveCycle Data Services ES, and explore hosted collaborative services with Cocomo (Common Collaboration Model). More...
Speaker Details
Andrew runs a blog at www.flexdaddy.info where he contributes Flex articles and provides coding and development techniques to the community. Andrew is also a certified Adobe Flex instructor.

