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Dale Rankine (GlobalOne, Brisbane)

Dale has been a part of the Australian digital industry for over 14 years as a designer, developer, manager, entrepreneur, trainer and evangelist. He is recognised globally as a specialist in product design and marketing, user experience and strategy for the mobile platform, and has been a regular speaker and trainer at events around the world for the likes of Adobe, Vodafone and Nokia. He has also been a regular contributor to the developer and UX community as author and presenter of numerous articles and training videos. Dale is currently Senior Mobile Consultant at GlobalOne, assisting enterprise clients in the strategy, design and development of new native and cross-platform mobile applications and experiences.

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Mr Spock, Consumerise the Enterprise

The boss has brought in his new iSomething and wants it connected to the network, and the marketing manager has brought back some kind of ‘phablet’ thingy from her recent trip to Asia! The days of business IT departments rolling out one locked-down model of mobile phone to executives and staff are long gone. Consumer-led mobility trends in apps, services and user experiences are changing the face of what it means to design, develop and deliver enterprise applications. This session will take you diving into what this looks like for app designers and developers, and the key areas to focus on for a successful outcome. More...

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Appland: A Case Study in Building a Mobile Apps Team

In 2010, Vodafone Hutchison Australia embarked on a new adventure and set about creating an in-house mobile apps development team. This team was created with innovation as a core ingredient, and tasked with being an agile group of creative developers who could take the telco into unchartered waters and play in the app store ecosystems that had started to change traditional thinking and behaviour around mobile content and services. More...

BOF: Cause we are living in a mobile world & I am a mobile girl

Panel discussion on mobile apps, with a bit of TV thrown in. If its not a desktop, we'll be talking about it. More...

BOF: Mobile Mayhem

Androids searching with iPhone Flash Lites?! Got a hankering for the little stuff? Get into mobile madness -- folks talking everything mobile. More...

Gift Wrapping Flash for Mobile

Building your content is one thing, but then deploying it to devices is a whole different kettle of fish. Different platforms, operating systems, API access ... it’s all a little confusing. Australia’s own Flash Lite dude, Dale Rankine, will demystify the options for you and layout how you package your content for the fragmented mobile landscape. Get a look at what’s happening with Adobe Mobile Packager, and other tools that mobile developers can use for creating distributable Flash content for mobile devices. More...

Have a Chat with Flash Lite 2.1

Flash Lite 2.1 is the latest version of the mobile Flash player and has some really cool advantages over previous players. One of the most notable advances has been the inclusion of XML Sockets for creating mobile data-plan friendly persistent server connections. Originally being available only for BREW handsets, Flash Lite 2.1 is now available for Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile 5.0 devices, greatly enlarging the supported handset base. In this session, you'll see how to develop a chat application using Flash Lite 2.1 and the Jabber chat client, as well as find out more on the Flash Lite ecosystem and how these applications are finding their way to consumers. More...

Practical Flash Mobile: Tales from the Edge

DRD Interactive approached MXDU late last year about the possibility of developing some conference content for the mobile phone platform, delivered via the Flash Lite 1.1 player. Since that time they have been working on an application that delivers important information regarding schedules, speaker details, location information, and of course some light-hearted entertainment. More...

The not-so-ancient art of Mobile Flash Video

The last 3 years have seen an explosion of video on the web, and what format has risen to the top? Yep, Flash Video (FLV) is top dog when it comes to fast and easy video distribution online, thanks the ubiquity of the Flash player. Now, with Flash Lite 3, FLV comes to to the mobile platform! See first hand from Flash Lite ninja Dale Rankine how easy it is to create FLV applications in Flash Lite 3 and bring sexy back to your mobile handset. More...

Who Moved My Mobile Marketplace

It used to be the case that if you wanted to develop and sell mobile apps, you chose a difficult language to code in, unfamiliar tools, foreign packaging and signing workflows, and then entered into the nightmare of distribution. Then along came a certain device that had a store "attached" to it, and behold, the mobile marketplace was changed forever! For some developers, this was the pill that dissolved the development and distribution headache they had been suffering from. For others, it was nothing more than a new walled garden that locked them into a closed market, when so much of the digital world seemed to be opening up. So what's the reality? More...

Workshop: Flash Lite Jump Start

In this one-day hands-on training class, you will get practical experience using Flash Lite 2.0 to build functional, and well architected mobile applications. Topics include understanding mobile device capabilities, deploying Flash Lite content on Verizon and BREW, using XML sockets, using text and fonts in mobile content, building navigation systems, using the FSCommand2 statement, using dynamic data, and testing and deploying Flash Lite content.
Price: $495 (inc GST) More...