[flexcoders] Re: Flex Books - Detailed/Nitty-Gritty

2008-09-27 Thread Marielle Lange
Note that there is a book called "AdvancED Flex Application Development: Building Rich Media X" http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=1590598962 I skimmed through at the bookstore, reading a few pages here and there. In my opinion, it didn't deliver on the promise of the title. It didn't o

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Books - Detailed/Nitty-Gritty

2008-09-26 Thread Paul Andrews
+1 - Original Message - From: "nathanpdaniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 6:31 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Books - Detailed/Nitty-Gritty >I highly suggest the Flex 3 Cookbook - not so great for "tutorials" > but it is

[flexcoders] Re: Flex Books - Detailed/Nitty-Gritty

2008-09-26 Thread nathanpdaniel
I highly suggest the Flex 3 Cookbook - not so great for "tutorials" but it is "freakin' AWESOME" (my thoughts personally... :D) if you have a decent grasp & know what you wanna do. I use it everyday Just a thought! -Nathan D. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Chet Haase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Books - Detailed/Nitty-Gritty

2008-09-26 Thread Chet Haase
Anyways, I guess coming from Swing there are books (such as Filthy Rich Clients, one author Chet Haase works for Adobe now) which cover Yeah, I heard that rumor as well... lots of neat tricks, details, expert type info. That's what I was sort of wondering about. To be fair, Filthy Rich Clients

[flexcoders] Re: Flex Books - Detailed/Nitty-Gritty

2008-09-26 Thread cwicky99
Thanks (i think) for the feedback. I realize Flex is more than RAD tool, in fact I have hardly used the GUI builder. My background was Java/Swing -> python -> C# -> Flex, based on the projects I was working on. Anyways, I guess coming from Swing there are books (such as Filthy Rich Clients, one

[flexcoders] Re: Flex books

2007-02-05 Thread Jack OMelia
Actually, no. I was able to purchase the book as a download from O'Reilly at this link: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/programadobe/, $29.99 for download as a PDF only. You can keep downloading as updates become available. You can pay more to have a print copy of the book when it comes out. When I

[flexcoders] Re: Flex books

2007-02-05 Thread Oscar Cortes
You need a subscription to http://www.safaribooks.com

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex books

2007-02-05 Thread Steve Milburn
Jack Where were you able to download the rough draft? Is it available for anyone to download? On 2/5/07, Jack OMelia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FWIW, the rough draft of Programming Flex 2 was just updated to 295 pages and 11 chapters. I just downloaded it but haven't been able to look at i

[flexcoders] Re: Flex books

2007-02-05 Thread Jack OMelia
FWIW, the rough draft of Programming Flex 2 was just updated to 295 pages and 11 chapters. I just downloaded it but haven't been able to look at it yet. As far as Flex TFTS, I am about halfway through it and I like the book alot. I am NOT a true developer, but a designer with dabblings in PHP and

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Books? Suggestions...

2006-09-01 Thread Impudent1
qnotemedia wrote: > This is a great topic that needs to stay alive, as books and > tutorials are just now showing up now that Flex2 has been officially > released. > > lynda.com has a Flex2 Essential and I sat through most of it. It > might be too noob for some, but it covers the bases really

[flexcoders] Re: Flex Books? Suggestions...

2006-09-01 Thread Mike Potter
While not a book, the PHP RIA SDK by Adobe is a good source of samples for using PHP and Flex together. (We're also working on getting some Spry samples in the file as well). There's a Google Code Project at http://code.google.com/p/adobe-php-sdk/ and a discussion list at http://groups.google.com

[flexcoders] Re: Flex Books? Suggestions...

2006-09-01 Thread qnotemedia
This is a great topic that needs to stay alive, as books and tutorials are just now showing up now that Flex2 has been officially released. lynda.com has a Flex2 Essential and I sat through most of it. It might be too noob for some, but it covers the bases really well. Looks like the official