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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.

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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...

Building Custom Components in Flex 2.0

Through the use of base classes, existing components and ActionScript, new Flex components can be created and deployed into your own applications. This session will explore and demonstrate these techniques. More...

Extending Fireworks: Scripting Custom Commands

This session will look at taking Fireworks MX to the next level, improving work flow, and creating re-usable tools. Utilising the flexibility of Flash MX for the UI, and Firework More...

Integrating the Flex Skin Design Extensions into your RIA workflow

The Flex Skin Design Extensions are a set of extensions for various Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications (notably Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks) that allow you to easily create skins for various Flex components and other assets (such as cursor manager, drag manager, etc.) Richard will look at integrating these tools into your workflow, giving your Flex/AIR applications a custom look & feel. More...

RIA/Website Prototyping with Fireworks CS4

Fireworks has evolved from a simple web graphic creation tool to a powerful prototyping application. The session will focus on taking a design from concept, to working example, and finally exporting the result to our application, with examples of prototyping for both RIA's (Flex/AIR), and the web (Dreamweaver). In addition, we'll look at providing the client with mock?ups and secure working examples using PDF and AIR. More...

Usability: Thinking about the user, not for them

What good is it having a technically great application if the experience prevents the user from getting the most out of it? What makes for a good user experience? What mistakes do we make? Using both abstract and practical examples we’ll see how to reduce frustration and make our web, mobile and desktop applications more engaging and usable. More...

Working Smarter, Not Harder – Secrets of the Lazy Coder

"It doesn’t matter if you are developing solo, or as part of an “Agile” team, there are many ways to work smarter, not harder by adding automation and efficiency to your workflow. Richard challenges you to add continuous integration, version control and ideation to your arsenal. More...