360|Flex Camp: Update on the Drupal Session From Michael

Michael Caudy, one of our speakers at the camp, just sent us this.

I will be giving a talk entitled "Using Drupal with Flex" at the upcoming 360|Flex Camp conference in New Jersey, on September 26-27, 2008. The purpose of this talk will be to introduce Flex developers to the wonders and awesomeness of Drupal - a free, open source Content Management System and web development framework.

For the talk, I am creating a demo Drupal site - DrupalFlex - built on Drupal 5.10. This site will include many basic Drupal features as a CMS: integration of blogging, RSS, forums, taxonomies, etc., which are al part of the core functionality built into Drupal, and which can be enabled without installing any additional Drupal modules.

The DrupalFlex demo will also incorporate additional, non-core Drupal
modules that provide greatly increased functionality, in particular,
to provide enhanced "Web 2.0" / "Rich Internet Application"
functionality.

Finally - and most importantly - I will show how the Drupal CMS /
framework can be used as a back-end / web app development framework on
which feature-rich Flex / Flash applications can be developed, and
served over the internet.

See my additional blog posts, the example forums, and other web pages
on the DrupalFlex site, for additional information as this site - and
demo presentation - are developed. Also, please feel free to make
comment posts on the site, add new forum topics, register and post
blogs about Drupal and/or Flex, etc.