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About Todd Sharp

Todd Sharp is the creator of SlideSix, a multimedia enabled presentation sharing community that has been featured on popular technical blogs such as TechCrunch, Mashable. SlideSix features an all-in-one management console powered by Adobe Flex where users upload and enhance presentations with recorded audio or video and external media.

Todd has been developing rich web applications since 2004. He uses Adobe ColdFusion as his primary server side language and flirts with various client side technologies and frameworks like Ajax and Flex depending on the needs of the project. Todd blogs regularly about the adventures of being a self-funded single developer startup, shares helpful developing tips and otherwise rambles about cool technology at his site http://cfsilence.com.

Todd provides development and consulting services through his company Sharp Interactive, LLC. You can contact Todd via email at todd@cfsilence.com and hear his ramblings on Twitter by following cfsilence and slidesix.

Real Life RIA Powererd by the Adobe Stack

This session will include a short introduction to RIA technologies for newcomers to the Adobe stack. We will take a look at how ColdFusion, Flex and AIR empower developers to easily create engaging Rich Internet Applications.

We'll take a detailed look at how SlideSix.com utilizes these langauages, frameworks and tools to create a multimedia presentation sharing community. This session will include demonstrations on how to convert a presentation file to a browser based SWF using Adobe ColdFusion and Java, creating a powerful management console that allows users to record audio/video narration directly within their browser using Adobe Flex and extending the user experience to the desktop with Adobe AIR.