Showing posts with label Flex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flex. Show all posts

Sep 3, 2008

The Essential Guide to Flex 3

Charles E Brown, "The Essential Guide to Flex 3"
friends of ED | ISBN: 1590599500 | May 26, 2008 | 600 Pages | PDF | 10.4MB

Flex 3 is the next generation of a technology that revolutionized web applications. It is the next evolutionary step of Flash, which has grown from a web animation medium to a powerful enterprise web design and development platform. With nearly 98% of all web browsers, and a growing number of mobile devices, running Flash Player, a knowledge of Flex is indispensible for any serious web developer.

This book will show you how to create powerful Rich Internet Applications using Flex 3. After learning how to install and becoming familiar with the basics of the Flex Builder 3 software, you will explore in depth how the Flash scripting language, ActionScript 3.0, interacts with Flex's powerful XML-like design language: MXML.

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Sep 2, 2008

Flex 3: A Beginner's Guide

Michele E. Davis, Jon A. Phillips, "Flex 3: A Beginner's Guide"
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media | ISBN-10: 0071544186 | March 21, 2008 | 274 pages | PDF | 4MB

Learn to program with Flex 3, the powerful tool for building multimedia-rich, interactive Flash applications for the Web. Flex 3: A Beginner's Guide is an easy-to-follow, fast-paced tutorial that allows you to fully grasp the fundamentals, including MXML, ActionScript, Flex Builder, states, transitions, and behaviors. You'll learn how to customize your applications with styles, skins, and themes; access remote data using the XML HTTP Service Request; profile and debug your applications; and manage media assets.

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Aug 26, 2008

Learning Flex 3: Getting up to Speed with Rich Internet Applications


Alaric Cole, "Learning Flex 3: Getting up to Speed with Rich Internet Applications"
Adobe Dev Library | ISBN-10: 0596517327 | June 25, 2008 | 304 pages | PDF | 11.7MB

How soon can you learn Adobe Flex 3? With this book's unique hands-on approach, you will be able to tinker with examples right away, and create your own Rich Internet Applications with Flex within the first few chapters. As you progress, you learn how to build a layout, add interactivity, work with data, and deploy your applications to either the Web or the desktop.

Learning Flex 3 offers step-by-step instructions that are clear and concise, along with tips and tricks that author Alaric Cole has gathered after years of using Flex and teaching it to fellow developers at Yahoo! You'll understand how Flex works, how to use the MXML markup language and work with ActionScript, how to deploy RIAs to the desktop using Adobe AIR, and much more.

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Aug 25, 2008

Getting Started with Flex 3: An Adobe Developer Library Pocket Guide for Developers

Jack Herrington, Emily Kim, "Getting Started with Flex 3: An Adobe Developer Library Pocket Guide for Developers"
Adobe Dev Library | ISBN-10: 0596520646 | June 24, 2008 | 143 pages | PDF | 1.9MB

Discover how easy RIA development can be with this one-of-a-kind handbook from the Adobe Developer Library. Several clear, step-by-step mini-tutorials teach you about web services, event handling, designing user interfaces with reusable components, and more. After finishing this guide, you'll be able to build Flash applications ranging from widgets to full-featured RIAs using the Flex SDK and Flex Builder 3.0. With Getting Started with Flex 3, you will: Walk through sample RIA projects and see examples of amazing applications people have built with Flex Work with ActionScript 3.0 and the MXML markup language Build user interfaces using the controls and tools available with the framework Get a tour of controls available commercially and through open source Learn how Flex integrates with ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP, and J2EE in the server Build Flex-based widgets that let you display real-time data Use advanced controls to build 3D graphs, data dashboards, mapping applications, and more You'll find complete code for video players, a slideshow, a chat client, and an RSS reader, just to name a few. You also get plenty of tips, tricks, and techniques to leverage your existing programming skills, whether you come from an open source or Visual Studio-intensive background.

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