Drupal & Adobe Technologies
DrupalCampLA 2007
Drupal & Adobe Technologies

Who are you? Oh - Chris Charlton
LA Drupal member Authorized Adobe
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Flex Champion
Drupal fan
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LA Air manager
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Drupal user
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LA Flash member
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Drupal advocate
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Flex book author
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Drupal integrator
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Web Standards
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Community helper
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teacher at the RMI
(help, articles, code)
A very chill dude
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A chill dude
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DrupalCampLA 2007
Drupal & Adobe Technologies

Adobe Technologies
Adobe owns the designer's realm and is going
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for developers with a $100,000,000 campaign.
Adobe created PDF.
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Adobe owns Flash.
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Adobe created and open sourced Flex.
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Adobe now has a desktop runtime - AIR.
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Adobe Flash Player
JIT (Just-in-time compiler)
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Audio (AAC, M4A, MP3)
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Video (H.264, 3GP, MOV, FLV)
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Sockets (XML, Binary)
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XML – E4X, XPath
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CSS (Cascade Style Sheets)
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Talks to PHP, .Net, Ruby, CFML, JS, AMF
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Most distributed software on the web!
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Adobe Frameworks
Flex - open ActionScript framework.
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Spry – JavaScript (Ajax) framework.
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DrupalCampLA 2007
Drupal & Adobe Technologies

Flex
It's a framework for RIAs.
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Adobe Flex Builder is the product (design view).
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The SDK, compiler, and framework are free.
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Flex 2 is out now, Flex 3 comes Q4-Q1 2008.
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New Flex release doesn't always mean a new
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Flash Player release, like Java (?).
Languages: MXML (XML-based markup) and
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ActionScript 3 (similar to JavaScript).
DrupalCampLA 2007
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Adobe AIR
Flash Platform for the desktop. True cross-
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platform UI's for Mac, Windows, Linux (Solaris).
AIR apps are compiled; written in ActionScript,
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JavaScript, or both in Flex, Flash, or pure JS.
APIs for File I/O, SQLite, Network &
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Connectivity, WebKit (Embedded Web Browser)
Windowed-application (native/custom), load
popular video and audio formats and PDF.
DrupalCampLA 2007
Drupal & Adobe Technologies

Take one drop of Drupal...
Drupal is a CMF before it's a CMS:
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CMF – Content Management Framework
CMS – Content Management System
Drupal is open like Flex.
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A CMF, like Drupal, can be used for more than
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just websites for developers and businesses.
DrupalCampLA 2007
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Easy Mix (Drupal + Flash/Flex)
Website with a rich presentation layer:
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Pages
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Blogs
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Calendar & Events
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Forum
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Video/Audio
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No Duh! (Now) Mix (Drupal + Flex)
Administration overhauls:
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Productivity and efficiency
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More data, cleaner, faster, easier to touch and see.
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Present content differently depending on user levels
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(no one cares to learn Drupal terminology)
C-module (Apache) to compile MXML to SWF
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on the fly, essentially a replacement for
standard markup files (HTML).
Drupal template engine running on XSL/XSLT =
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mad props since I can push MXML or XHTML.
DrupalCampLA 2007
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Untasted Mixes (Drupal + AIR)
Desktop content management application.
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Custom (node) content types for applications:
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Bug or feedback reporting
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Software dashboard/start-page news, updates, etc.
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Knowledge base and documentation
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Log-in screens (unmodified).
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PDF interactivity (XML-PDF, server-side scripts)
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DrupalCampLA 2007
Drupal & Adobe Technologies

Drupal & Adobe Tech (Learn More)
Drupal modules (Services, AMFPHP)
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http://drupal.org/project/services
http://drupal.org/project/amfphp
Flex.org
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Adobe Labs - http://labs.adobe.com
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Rich Media Institute - richmediainstitute.com
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LA Air & LA Flash - http://laflash.org
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LA Drupal - http://ladrupal.org
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DrupalCampLA 2007
Drupal & Adobe Technologies