Robin Hilliard (Sydney, Australia)

Robin Hilliard is founder and CEO of RocketBoots, a company providing consulting, training and software licensing services to teams working with RIA technologies. He is an experienced software architect, with a particular focus on Adobe’s Flex, ColdFusion, Flash and Flash Media Server products. Formerly with Allaire and Macromedia, Robin is a certified Flash and ColdFusion developer, an Adobe certified Master Flex and ColdFusion Instructor and has a BSc in computer science and pure mathematics from Sydney University. Robin is based in Sydney, Australia.

Adobe User Group: Code War! (And Early Registration)

All comers welcome -- no ticket required. State Champions, seven short programming challenges, two projectors, loud crowd.. mildly impressive prizes.
Connections Bar at Crowne Plaza Darling Harbour from 6pm More...

Code, Know Thyself: Using ActionScript Metadata

Ever wondered how FlexBuilder knows that contains DataGrid tags or that child tags of a VBox belong to its children array? Maybe you would like other Flex developers working with components you've developed to see particular properties organised into categories in the properties panel, or allow them to annotate their own classes to work with a runtime framework you're developing. All this and more can be achieved using metadata. More...