James Talbot (Boston, USA)

James has been with Adobe (formerly Macromedia) for over seven years, on both the sales engineering and training teams, and has most recently been working with Flex and Flash Lite. He has traveled extensively throughout the world promoting Adobe products and certifying Adobe instructors as well as speaking at conferences.

Workshop: Flex 3.0 Crash Course

A one day crash course in building Flex applications with Flex Builder. Join Kai Koenig, Adobe Instructor, and James Talbot, the Adobe Master Instructor who built the Flash/Flex training curriculum and certified hundreds of instructors. This hands on workshop focuses on the Flex Builder development workflow while students build a data enabled, rich internet application from the ground up.
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Data Visualisation with Flex

Learn how to take advantage of the rich, extensible components in the Flex Data Visualization package. We’ll explain how to build basic applications with the built-in charts and how to use the extensibility API to build custom visualizations. We’ll also cover some of the new components available in Flex 3 like the AdvancedDataGrid. More...

Speaker Details

He has written Object Oriented ActionScript 2.0 published by New Riders Press and is a contributor to the official Adobe Flex 2: Training From The Source book. James has been an integral team member on high profile Rich Internet Application consulting assignments for companies such as AOL/Time Warner, JP Morgan and TV Guide.

James is actively involved in the Adobe worldwide instructor and developer community, and contributes to developer certification exams as well as organizing and speaking at user groups. James is passionate about Flash on devices as well as rich internet applications and believes both technologies will change the world for the better. James has spoken at webDU each year it has been in existence and believes it is the best run conference in the world.