Druplash/Druplex Receive Praise at DrupalCampWI

Saturday, January 19, 2008, Steven Merrill and I gave our presentation on Druplash and Druplex at DrupalCampWI. DrupalCampWI was a blast and we had a great crowd for our presentation with some great discussion afterward. Larry Garfield, newly elected Drupal Association Board member wrote up a review of the event and had this to say about our presentation:

My favorite presentation, though, was given by a team from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. They've been working on integrating Drupal with Flash and Flex, and have done some impressive things with it. I've tended to avoid Flash on the ground that I didn't want to bother with a proprietary binary blob. However, Adobe has just in the past several weeks made big strides towards open sourcing Flash, to the point that it is now possible, supposedly, to develop, compile, deploy, and view Flash using no proprietary software. That piques my interest.

What piqued my interest even more, though, is that they're working on a SWFAddress module (as in, wrote one the day before) that they plan to contribute. SWFAddress is a Flash plugin that lets a Flash page have a bookmarkable URL. A bookmarkable, Google-friendly, deep-linking, open source, Drupal-based, Flash web site? OK, now I'm interested! They've already signed up to give a presentation at DrupalCon Boston. You want to see it! (As if you need another reason to go to DrupalCon...)

-- Larry Garfield, speaking about Brian and Steven's Druplash / Druplex presentation (Read his whole blog post.)

SWFAddress.module is nearing completion and we hope to have it committed to Drupal CVS soon! We're also polishing up our demo sites and will have links to them posted here soon and articles with source code to help everyone else get started building their own Druplash and Druplex sites!,