After Kieran Lal of Acquia asked me to propose a session for this year's Bay Area Drupal Camp, I decided a talk on Flex would be in order. The conference leads agreed, and on Saturday afternoon I got a chance to discuss and demo the following:

• What Adobe Flex is and why it is gaining popularity as a tool for front-end development.
• The differences between Flex, Flash, and Actionscript.
• Building a basic Flex application in Eclipse.
• Setting up a basic Drupal backend and making node and user services available.
• Configuring a Flex front-end to consume Drupal services.
• More advanced multimedia applications with Flex, such as client-server video recording with red5.
• When to use AJAX rather than Flex, using youMashTube as a case study.

The presentation is attached ( in Open Office format ). You can also see a higher-res photo of the presentation thanks to Jason Chinn