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Thomas Burleson

Creator of BabelFX

In 2009, Thomas created an open-source localization framework "BabelFx" to revolutionize the process for adding multiple language features to RIAs. Thomas also formed Thunderbay Software and created the SaaS product "Insertables" that allows anyone to easily create rich smart-forms that can be inserted into any website or web page. Thomas is a founder of the Cairngorm Extensions and a course ware author for the Adobe Cairngorm training series. As a certified Adobe instructor, Thomas also provides Flex training to selected clients desiring project-related, interactive training and best-practices. Thomas is an evangelist and significant contributor to the Swiz framework for Flex and Flash.

Thomas Burleson has been building consumer and e-Commerce software solutions for more than two decades. During the last 8 years, Thomas has provided product development skills and senior leadership for Universal Mind, RoundArch, and other consulting firms. Thomas has significant, real-world architecture-level experience in Flex, Flash, Java, Groovy, and ColdFusion. Past work includes efforts for firms such SAP, Oracle, Adobe, Sherwin-Williams, AmberAlert, NASDAQ, Ustrive2, Straker Interactive, JibJab, and Oppeneheimer Funds.

Presentations

Building Multi-language Flex RIAs

Building support for multiple languages within your RIA is a non-trivial effort requiring translators, developers, and designers to address changes to text, graphics, skins, dates, validations, data, and [possibly] layout. In this session, you will learn about (a) best practices for localization [l10n] and (b) important considerations when enhancing your custom RIA to support multiple languages and international cultures. Learn why the standard Flash and Flex approaches are solutions best avoided since they introduce maintenance and scalability issues.

Learn about an open-source framework called "BabelFx" which centralizes all localization considerations and easily injects localized resources into your application at run time. When using BabelFx your application source code remains unchanged and maintainable... and adding another language to your application becomes fun and easy.

Introducing multi-lingual smart web Forms

Deploying a Rich Web Experience with engaging content and multiple screens is non trivial, time consuming, and expensive. Such deployments become significantly more challenging when the experience must include offer client-side validation, engaging experiences, animations, multi-page workflows, and more.

With web forms, your architecture now must consider form submissions and require server-side processing for form submission and file attachments. Then add to those requirements additional features for multi-language support, translations, and data tracking... and suddenly deploying web Forms can be a show stopper!

This session will contrast traditional web Forms with Smart Forms from ThunderBay software. Learn about the myriad issues that must be addressed when using Web forms. Learn about the significant issues of adding multilingual features to your forms.

Get a sneak preview of Insertables: the new Smart Form Platform from ThunderBay Software. With Insertables... create multi-page, multi-language smart forms in minutes with the FormDesigner. Easily deploy your smart form to any site or page (WordPress, CMS, internet, website, etc) with practically no changes to your existing site or web page.

Featured Sessions

Objective-C for Experienced Programmers

by Venkat Subramaniam
This session is intended for programmers with good working knowledge in at least one OOP language and interested in learning Objective-C to develop Ma

Test Driving iPhone Apps Development

by Venkat Subramaniam
You have used your share of iPhone Apps that misbehaved or simply crashed. Those experiences reminded you the need to create robust application that

Fundamentals of iOS Apps Development

by Venkat Subramaniam
Come to this workshop for an in depth understanding of the fundamentals of developing applications on the iOS platform for iPhone and iPad devices.

NodeJS Bootcamp

by James Carr
You might have heard a bit about nodejs, now it's time to get fully immersed in it and not just learn it in detail but gear up to start becoming an ac

GWT, Ajax for a grown up web

by Gabriel Dayley and Mike Heath
The Google Web Toolkit is a development toolkit for building and optimizing rich web based applications. It enables developers to be productive and

GWT, Hands on with the SDK

by Gabriel Dayley and Mike Heath
The GWT SDK contains the Java API libraries, compiler and development server. The SDK compiles optimized JavaScript that automatically works across al

Design for Change, It Makes Cents

by Patrick Haney
Changing the world sounds like an impossible task for any one person, but we can all use our skills for good rather than evil and make progress toward

It’s Business Time: Gettin’ Down With the Graceful Degradation of CSS3

by Denise Jacobs
The passion for CSS3 grows steadily as more designers become smitten with its properties and ease of use.

(Welcome to) The Age of Emotional and Experience Design

by Denise Jacobs
In this session, we’ll explore just how far we’ve come since the beginning of the web and how leveraging newer technologies is changing the face of we

Grails: Bringing Radical Productivity to the JVM Part I

by Dave Klein
The goal of this hands-on tutorial is to get started and get productive with Grails. We’ll do this by jumping right in and building an application, fr

The Future of Mobile: Learn to Build W3C Widgets and Device APIs with Phone..

by Brian Leroux
We know the future of the web is mobile, but what's the future of mobile? The latest builds of mobile browsers include HTML5 APIs, which enable speedy

Featured Speakers

Mark Murphy

Author of Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development

Mark Murphy is the founder of CommonsWare and the author of the Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development and other books on Android application development. He is active in supporting the Android developer community, from answering questions on StackOverflow to publishing sample code and reusable components as open source. A three-time entrepreneur, his experience ranges from consulting on open source and collabo..More »

Arun Gupta

Java EE & GlassFish Evangelist @ Oracle

Arun Gupta is a Java EE & GlassFish Evangelist working at Oracle. Arun has over 14 years of experience in the software industry working in various technologies, Java(TM) platform, and several web-related technologies. In his current role, he works very closely to create and foster the community around Java EE & GlassFish. He has participated in several standard bodies and worked amicably with members from other compa..More »

Matthew McCullough

Open Source Architect, Ambient Ideas

Matthew McCullough is an energetic 15 year veteran of enterprise software development, open source education, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a Denver consultancy. Matthew currently is a trainer for GitHub.com, author of the Git Master Class series for O'Reilly, speaker at over 30 national and international conferences, author of three of the top 10 DZone RefCards, and President of the Denver Open Source Users ..More »

Venkat Subramaniam

Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects, and speaks frequently at international conferences and user groups. Venkat is also an adjunct faculty and teaches CS courses remotely at the University of Houston...More »

Nathaniel Schutta

Author, speaker, software engineer focused on user interface design.

Nathaniel T. Schutta is a senior software engineer focussed on making usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written two books on Ajax and speaks regularly at various worldwide conferences, No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, universities, and Java user groups. In addition to his day job, Nate is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota where he teaches students to embrace dynamic lan..More »

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