Fred Sells did this presentation for the OrlandoJUG. Here's the writeup and I'll attach the source code to this discussion so we can work through it. Stay tuned for the code!

"Flex is a (mostly) open source IDE from Adobe that uses seamlessly combines XML layout definitions with ActionScript programming to create Flash applications. A fairly robust application can be built using the xml layout definitions with minimal ActionScript programming. Flex applications support a wide variety of server-side API’s, including XML and JSON.

Turbogears is an open source web framework written in Python that is similar to Ruby on Rails. Turbogears supports all the major RDBMS’s and uses either SqlAlchemy or SqlObject to provide Object-Relationship-Mapping (ORM) to simplify server side coding. A basic web application can be implemented in just two files: a database model and a controller containing the business logic. Although Turbogears is primarily used with any one of several HTML templating engines, it also supports JSON."

This presentation will focus on rapid development of RIA’s using Flex on the client side with static XML files to simulate server-side responses, then migrate to JSON with a Turbogears backend."

BIO

Fred Sells is employed at Adventist Care Centers where he develops web applications in Python and Java. He has been programming in Python since 1990 and Java since 2000. Prior to this, he was founder and President of Sunrise Software International which developed ezX® a GUI-builder for the Unix environment. Fred has also consulted to The New York Stock Exchange and developed command and control software for the U.S. Navy. He is a graduate of Purdue University and currently working on an MS in Computer Information Science from Boston University.