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Robin Hilliard (Sydney, Australia)

Robin Hilliard is founder and CEO of RocketBoots, a business community of independent RIA experts. He is an experienced software architect, with a particular focus on Adobe's ColdFusion, Flex, LiveCycle, Flash and Flash Media Server products. Formerly with Allaire and Macromedia, Robin is a certified ColdFusion and Flash developer, an Adobe certified Master ColdFusion and Flex Instructor with a BSc in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics from Sydney University.

Has previously done talks on...

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 Wars

All comers welcome -- no conference ticket required. Eight teams, short programming challenges, two projectors, loud crowd.. mildly impressive prizes. Are you Developer Enough? 6pm Start: Swiss Grand, Bondi Beach
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Code Wars!

All comers welcome -- no ticket required. Eight teams, short programming challenges, two projectors, loud crowd.. mildly impressive prizes. Are you Developer Enough? 6pm Start Connections Bar & Lounge, Crowne Plaza Darling Harbour
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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...

Easy as MVC: Architecture and Frameworks for Non-Believers

Robin taking tours through the structure your Flex applications. Approaching it right the first time can help you cope with ever changing requirements and demands. More...

Scope Like a Butterfly, Sprint for a Fee - Selling Agile

Agile approaches to software development usually make sense to people who've experienced the alternatives, but can seem alien to clients who are expected to abandon apparent certainty for certain uncertainty. More...

Software Requirements without Tears

Requirements. Love them or hate them... well who are we kidding, who likes writing (or reading, or talking about, or carrying to the recycle bin) requirements documents? Imagine for a moment that gathering and documenting requirements was a more meaningful activity, with a clear purpose, a way to tell when you'd finished and truly readable output that helped clients and developers work happily together. In this presentation Robin will introduce the concept of Problem Frames, a simple pattern language for recognising and describing software requirements in a useful way. More...

Stop that Response! Getting Pushy with ColdFusion and Data Services

When the closing html tag of your HTTP response leaves the data centre you'd normally have no chance of reaching out from your server code to change the contents of the resulting page in the browser. But with a nifty, easy to use custom tag developed by RocketBoots... you can. More...