Better Drupal Interaction Design with Flex session at Drupalcon Boston 2008

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Chris Charlton's picture

I just got notice that my Better Drupal Interaction Design with Flex session for Drupalcon Boston 2008 was accepted and is being scheduled. I don't know what day it will be on yet, but it should be on Monday or Tuesday since those are the days I'll be at Drupalcon. Here are the points I'll be covering in my time alloted:

  • Differences between HTML & Flex
  • Differences between Flex & Flash
  • What makes an RIA (Rich Internet Application)?
  • Learn all three faces of Flex: the framework, the IDE, and the language (MXML).
  • UI Controls & Awesome Form Validation - Why Flex forms are so much better than HTML forms (with or without Ajax)
  • Flex/Flash’s support for CSS
  • Custom components that you or others make, we’ll review the lay of the Flex land.
  • Flex’s Event model
  • Transitions and Effects that only Flex/Flash can provide
  • Let video shine
  • “Flex in the front, Drupal in the back.”

http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/session/better-drupal-interaction-design...

Feel free to post comments about things you'd like me to speak about or clarify. I'll probably do a repeat of this session at an LA Drupal meeting, so if you're local then you can catch me do a L.A. version of this talk so you can visit other session(s) that appear at the same time as me and get more for your $$$. ;)

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Congrats Chris!

OpenChimp's picture

I'll be happy to see you up there, though, as you suggest, I'll wait til you do it here it LA.

Updated outline

Chris Charlton's picture

I updated the course description and outline, for those interested.

Chris Charlton, Author & Drupal Community Leader, Enterprise Level Consultant

I teach you how to build Drupal Themes http://tinyurl.com/theme-drupal and provide add-on software at http://xtnd.us

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