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Andrew Spaulding (Melbourne, Australia)

Andrew Spaulding is a Flash Platform Specialist for Adobe Australia and New Zealand. Andrew has extensive knowledge of the Adobe Flash Platform with a focus on Rich Internet Applications and media delivery to everywhere and anywhere you can find Adobe Flash. He has been working for Macromedia/Adobe for 5 years and is a certified Adobe Flex Instructor.

Speaker Details

With a passion for Flex development he runs a blog over at www.flexdaddy.com and has presented at various industry conferences including Adobe's MAX conferences, WebDU, cf.Objective, and other local events.

Although nobody knows the identity of the radical lawless banditos at www.thequestionroom.com, if you ask Andrew he'll continue to deny all involvement. Many people think it could be him!

Has previously done talks on...

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...

Design to Develop workflow

This session will start in Adobe Creative Suite 4 using Illustrator and Photoshop to Prototype an application. There will be plenty of tips on using the creative tools. However and more importantly there will be best practice tips on preparing documents the correct way for this workflow on colour, layers, design and more. The artwork with then be imported into Flash Catalyst and interactivity will be added. There the application will be prototyped and prepared for further development in Flash Builder. By then end of the session the application will be functioning and demonstrated. More...

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...

Leveraging community built components in your Applications

This session will give an insight to the many custom Flex components designed and developed by the wider Flex community. From Flex Engineering and Adobe Consulting, through to Flex developers and bloggers, you will explore the use of these custom developed components in your applications. More...

Mixing It Up In the Pixel Bender

Delve into the awesome Pixel Bender technology - Adobe's common image and video processing infrastructure. You can use Pixel Bender implement real time media filters and effects in a hardware-independent manner. Learn the XML-based Pixel Bender language and build your own individual pixel-processing operations and special effects whiz-bangery. More...

Multi-touch and gesture support with the Flash Platform

Discover what you can do with multi-touch and the Flash Platform and see some cool examples in action using Flash Player 10.1, Adobe AIR 2 and even with applications created for the iPhone with Flash Professional CS5. Gestures and multi-touch will help enable more natural user interfaces and more expressive ways of interacting with applications.  More...