Rick Blalock is a native South Floridian that currently works for Appcelerator as a customer engineer. He is also a co-founder of the South Florida web firm, Expression in Design (XiD). XiD specializes in CMS consultancy and custom web solutions.
Rick's passion is training clients with one-on-one session, as well as creating video tutorials, and just having fun helping others find their way through the Joomla! and mobile world.
Rick also operates BeautyInDesign.com, a training resource for all things web design and development, the mobile space, and more. His iPhone app won the Wufoo 'API Battle Axe' competition.
Rick Blalock presented Joomla SiteBuilder 1 & Joomla SiteBuilder 2 at CMS Expo Chicago 2009. In 2010, Rick presented This Is Adobe Air and Building Your Open Source Web Business.
Rick returns in 2011 to CMS Expo Chicago to present JQuery Mobile, M-Commerce: Beyond the Buzzword and Titanium: App-ify Your CMS Site.