New book on Flex 4: Flex 4 Fun by Chet Haase

Chet Haase (an engineer on the Flex SDK team) has published a book on Flex 4 called “Flex 4 Fun”. If you know anything about Chet’s passion for graphics you won’t be surprised to find chapters on graphics, filters, states, transitions, component skinning, and animations.

You can get a taste of the book itself by reading this excerpts: Pixel Bender with Flex 4 or states and components. You can buy the book from here and you can see the content and the application examples here.

Enjoy!

April 27, 2010 | Filed Under Books | Leave a Comment 

New ActionScript 3 Book in Romanian

My friend, Cosmin Varlan, a professor at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University published a book about ActionScript 3 – web programming with Flash and Flex. It is in Romanian, so I guess for many of you it is not too useful :D. For the others, you can buy it from the bookstores across Romania (it is published at Polirom) and it costs 42 RON (10 Euro). You have 400+ pages to  ramp up your ActionScript 3 skills quickly.

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Here are some of the topics:

October 30, 2009 | Filed Under Books | 2 Comments 

Book on Flex 4

I have to say that I love books, actually I love reading books. Although, lately, I find less and less time for reading literature, I still have fun reading a good technical or business book. For those of you who have the same passion, here comes a title: Hello!Flex 4 by Peter Armstrong (and as Flex 4 is closing in fast you have an additional incentive). I think this is one of the first books on Flex 4, and although it isn’t published yet, you can have early access to the book. This enables you to read the chapters as they are written and provide feedback to the author.

Here you can find info about the book.

September 3, 2009 | Filed Under Books | 1 Comment 

"First Steps in Flex", MAX Sessions, and iTunes

Last week I was asked about good resources for learning Flex/AIR. So I have some more resources for you: First Steps in Flex is available for purchase. This book is written by Bruce Eckel and James Ward. I read this book this summer, because I was a member of the review team. And I can tell you this book can really help you get up to speed with Flex/ActionScript/AIR very quickly. So, if you are new to Flex world, and you want to learn, then maybe this is the book for you.

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As I said in another post, all the MAX sessions will be available. As a matter of fact, we’ve started to publish them in batches. You can find them on Adobe TV:

If you prefer to use iTunes, then you can find them in the iTunes as well. Enjoy!

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Later Update: You can enjoy these recordings in Adobe Media Player too. Click on My Favorites, and click on the ADD RSS FEED button and add these feeds:

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December 15, 2008 | Filed Under Books, Video | Leave a Comment 

tostring.org : AIR / RIA books online

Mike Chambers launched an interesting site: http://www.tostring.org/ Mike explains what is this site:

“Well, I am happy to announce a new site that I have been working on called tostring.org, which in addition to containing the entire Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide online, also provides an infrastructure for the community to contribute to the books, both through hosting translated versions of the books, as well as allowing comments on individual chapters.”

Here you can find more about this project in his own words.

June 24, 2008 | Filed Under AIR, Books | 2 Comments 

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