All, Definitely not a touchy subject - it's a fair question !
The book will be rewritten completely for Flex 2.0, and we'll be using the opportunity to "refactor" how we've approached the subject. However, I'd echo a number of comments that the aim of the book is to lift the covers on how one might approach the architecture and best-practices around Flex application development. Furthermore, for each feature of the Flex product, the aim of the book was to impart where and how you might apply there features, rather than an attribute by attribute, method by method coverage of the various components, containers, etc. We share your frustration that the code no longer compiles; however I do trust that the value you'll extract from the book is significantly more than some source code samples. Best wishes, Steven -- Steven Webster Practice Director (Rich Internet Applications) Adobe Consulting Westpoint, 4 Redheughs Rigg, South Gyle, Edinburgh, EH12 9DQ, UK p: +44 (0) 131 338 6108 m: +44 (0) 7917 428 947 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes > Sent: 27 February 2006 05:08 > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Developing Rich Clients book > > Agreed. I considered myself a flex developer early on in the > piece that "knew" flex, but i'm happy to put hand on heart > and declare that I still have it on my bookshelf and at times > refer to it for min-refresh-my-memory style queries. > > Semantics of the book hold, just syntax is a lot different. > Plus it wouldn't hurt to know where flex has come from in > order to guage where its going. > > If however you have to pay and not your work and the budgets > a bit tight then i'd say "no" :) > > > On 2/27/06, Matt Chotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it depends on your goal for reading the book. If > you want to > > just copy sample code and run it then the book now serves less of a > > purpose. But I think the approaches that are talked about > in the book > > still hold in Flex 2 so for general background it's still > worthwhile. > > > > Matt > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of pixelgeek > > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:54 PM > > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: [flexcoders] Developing Rich Clients book > > > > Maybe a potentially touchy subject considering the group > mods but is > > the "Developing Rich Clients with Macromedia Flex" book a > worthwhile > > purchase now? > > > > I ask primarily because I am not able to get the sample app from > > Chapter 2 to run (or compile) and if the rest of the book > has similar > > issues due to the changes to Flex and MXML (note: I don't > see this as > > an issue with the authors or the book just a fact of life) I am not > > sure the point behind continuing to work through it. > > > > So are the rest of the samples in the book salvagable or has the > > language changed that much that I will run into similar > issues through > > the rest of the book? > > > > TIA > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Flexcoders Mailing List > > FAQ: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > > Search Archives: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Flexcoders Mailing List > > FAQ: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > > Search Archives: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Regards, > Scott Barnes > http://www.mossyblog.com > > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
