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Richard Turner-Jones (Brisbane, Australia)

An Adobe Certified Instructor and Developer, Richard has been in the multimedia and web application development field for more than 17 years. A MAX award winner, he has been involved in the development of many high profile projects for the Australian Army, Airservices Australia, Suncorp and Dominos Pizza, to name but a few.

Speaking On

Talking Less Sass(y)

Sick of your single scoop, vanilla CSS? Let Greg introduce you to the magic of variables, nesting, mixins, operators and functions to your CSS sundae. Learn to write LESS CSS, and style with attitude and SASS. Time to get to grips with the Cascading Style Sheet metalanguages taking web development by storm. More...

Understanding AngularJS’ role in building web applications

- What HTML would have been had it been designed for web apps. Not really a library, nor a framework, is really an extension to enhance the HTML rendering within a browser to turn it from a document viewer to something more suited to running web applications. provides many of the missing elements to build and maintain a MVC web application. We’ll see by example how easily we add structured data with minimal code, and integrate with existing libraries like jQuery. More...

Speaker Details

Richard provides training in Adobe applications (Flex, ColdFusion and the Creative Suites), as well as server and client side programming and technologies (e.g., PHP, ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript, XML and CSS).He is also active in promoting Adobe products and services to the community, managing the Brisbane Flash Platform Group and Brisbane Creative Suite Group.[ http://www.baug.com.au ]

Has previously done talks on...

• Working Smarter, Not Harder – Secrets of the Lazy Coder
• Usability: Thinking about the user, not for them
• RIA/Website Prototyping with Fireworks CS4
• Integrating the Flex Skin Design Extensions into your RIA workflow
• Building Custom Components in Flex 2.0
• Extending Fireworks: Scripting Custom Commands