These are the slides I used during my presentation at the New York Flex User Group - Skinning Components in Flex 4.

MATE is a tag-based, event-driven framework for Flex development. Using MATE in your Flex development can help you build powerful, loosely coupled applications. During this presentation I will take a simple Flex application and show how you can perform an extreme makeover that will greatly enhance the application’s architecture, allowing it to scale properly.

AIR is Adobe’s open-source technology that allows you to create Rich Internet Applications that run outside of any Web browser - Rich Internet-aware Desktop Applications. During my presentation I will give you an overview of the features available to you from within Adobe AIR.