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Flex 4 in Action: Revised Edition of Flex 3 in Action First Edition

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Flex 4 in Action is an easy-to-follow, hands-on Flex 4 tutorial. Revised and updated from the previous edition on Flex 3, this book is chock-full of examples, goes beyond feature coverage, and helps readers put Flex to work in real day-to-day tasks. This book helps Flex developers make their Flex applications stand out from the crowd. How comprehensive is Flex 4 in Action?

Interesting themes, styles, and skins? It's in there.
Working with databases? You got it.
Interactive forms and validation? You bet.
Charting techniques to help you visualize data? Bam!

Many Flex books are overwhelming to new users-focusing on the complexities of the language and super-specialized subjects in the Flex ecosystem. Flex 4 in Action filters out the noise and dives into the core topics users need every day. Using numerous easy-to-understand examples, Flex 4 in Action provides a strong foundation that readers can build on as the complexity of their projects increases.

Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

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1935182420
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Tariq Ahmed is a web application pioneer with over 15 years of experience. Hewas first to introduce eBay to Adobe Flex which then later proliferated to otherteams. As an Adobe Flex Community Expert, Tariq is particularly known for hisCommunity Flex (CFLEX.Net) site. Heis currently the Manager of ProductDevelopment at Amcom Technology, managing a team of RIA Engineers andBusiness Intelligence Analysts.

Daniel Orlando is a recognized RIA Architect, specializing in enterprise class Flex and AIR applications. Dan is often called on as a resource for information on top-ics involving bleeding edge technology platforms for radio interviews and printpublications, which include: PHP Architect magazine, Flex and Flash DeveloperMagazine, Amazon Web Services Developer Connection, Adobe DeveloperConnection, IBM developerWorks, PHPBuilder.com, and many others.

Joel Hooks is a Flash Platform developer with experience in Actionscript 3, Flex, and Python. With the introduction of Actionscript 3, Joel finally found a platform that allows him to architect useful tools while fully leveraging his experience as a visual artist. Joel is passionate about technology and enjoys exploring the landscape of frameworks, libraries, and tools that make his work constantly fun and challenging.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manning; First Edition (November 25, 2010)
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Paperback ‏ : ‎ 600 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1935182420
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1935182429
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
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Since 2001, John has been developing websites, desktop, and mobile software as a contractor as well as through his company Katapult Media, Inc. In his career, he has worked with numerous small and enterprise companies including Turner Broadcasting, MySpace/Fox Interactive, Sprint/Nextel, NBA, NBC Universal, State Farm and more. His work on the CNN.com Live Player currently holds an Internet record set during The President Obama Inauguration. He is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Workiva.
He is also a co-author of the ColdFusion Web Application Framework for ColdFusion 8 and ColdFusion 9 as well as Flex 4 in Action. As an Adobe Community Professional, John continues put back into the community which helped mold him into the developer he is today.
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Dan Orlando is CEO at Creative RIA and a recognized leader in the Flash Platform community. As a long time consultant and Adobe Community Professional, Dan's expertise on Adobe technology platforms is often called upon by industry leaders as well as for publications such as IBM developerWorks, Adobe Developer Connection, and Amazon Web Services. Dan can also be found blogging regularly at DanOrlando.com.
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Joel Hooks is a Flash Platform developer with experience in Actionscript 3, Flex, and Python. Joel spent the first 13 years of his professional career as a 3d animator and graphic designer working on computer based training applications from that perspective. His interest in programming goes as far back as “TELL TURTLE” and he has always been interested in the technological challenges related to developing software making work a little bit easier. With the introduction of Actionscript 3, Joel finally found a platform that allows him to architect useful tools while fully leveraging his experience as a visual artist. Joel is passionate about technology and enjoys exploring the landscape of frameworks, libraries, and tools that make his work constantly fun and challenging.
Joel currently resides in Fort Worth and works as a Flex consultant for Universal Mind providing clients with oodles of clean code and a focus on test driven development solutions. Joel can be found blogging on various Flex development topics at http://joelhooks.com
Outside of developing software tools Joel owns a photography studio http://visualempathy.com with his wife who also collaborates on the raising and nurturing of his four children aged 12 to 2.
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Evan Smith

Errors throughout

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2011

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Hello,

I expect more out of my computer books then errors in the simple examples! We should all have higher standards.

Here are some examples, and note there is no Errata published to date. Thus, you will want this list if you are reading the book.

Page 204 mx:Script is incorrect, use fx:Script
Page 91: spark.skins.default.DefaultItemRenderer, use spark.skins.spark.DefaultItemRender
(there are two instances both in listing 4.18 and 4.19
Page 176: dg.selectedItem.email, use contactDataGrid.selectedItem.email
Page 200: Listing 10.6 first note that you need to save this as HListIRExample, having first
done a "file/new/Item Render" and filling in the listing for 10.6 (and yes rename to Canvas). Then you can try out Listing 10.7.
Page 201: Notice that Listing 10.7 is missing </s:layout>
Page 188 and 189: almost hopeless in the number of errors but here goes
- change mx.events.IndexChangedEvent to spark.events.IndexChangeEvent
- change s:SimpleText to s:Label
- change selectionChanging to changing
- change s:BitmapImage to mx:Image
images are not provided (naturally). Just create an "images" directory under your src directory. Then copy over some of your own jpgs and rename as needed.
Page 174: rename evt to Event
Page 175 rename evt.currentTarget to event.currentTarget
Page 53: the "don't wrap case blocks in curly braces - incorrect. You may wish to do this based on the scope of the variables you are using.

Many of these errors indicate that someone did not test the examples in the book. One should NEVER just retype code. Thus the design of this book is poor! What should have occurred is the code that must run somewhere (I hope) was linked directly into the text and thus the code at least in syntax correct.

Only half way through and am wondering if I am wasting my time and should just try a new book now that Flex 4.5 is out.

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Good Product and service

Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2011

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I'm very glad with the quality product and the good service. I found the book was brand new even I purchased the used one. Thanks a lot.

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David Ham

Spark material sorely lacking

Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2011

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One of the main features of Flex 4 is the new Spark component architecture, with its new layouts and skinning features. The book has only cursory discussion about Spark layouts, and almost nothing on skinning.

Skinning is the whole point! The new system is advertised to be the most flexible yet, giving the most power to designers, but I've found more information on it in blog posts and videos on Adobe.com.

I bought this book based on the high reviews, and that it was specifically about Flex 4. But I learned a lot more about Flex from Chafic Kazoun and Joey Lott's "Programming Flex 2" by O'Reilly.

The other material seems rushed as well; if I didn't already know Flex I think I'd be very confused.

Avoid this book if you're looking for an explanation of how Spark works.

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Very good, missing Enterprise stuff

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2010

Over all this book is worth your time. You'll get a lot out of it when developing Flex applications. It provides in depth information on the topics it covers and it covers a lot of them. There are however some shortcomings when it comes to developing big entrprise applications.
In short:
Good book providing a strong foundation of knowledge. Missing topics addressing enterprise scale applications.
Target audience: beginners to intermediate.
Target applications: Small to medium (< 2 man year effort, < 40 screens) sized.

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ashley c

Suspicious reviews on Amazon.com & very poor 'Spark' examples

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2011

I read the custom components chapter in this book to beef up my knowledge, having completed a few tutorials on creating Spark components already (thank goodness I had!) The author, rather than building up a single simple example has decided to show 'component code' for one component, but 'skin code' from some other component (actually he refers back to an earlier code example, as if creating a single cohesive example for this chapter was too much trouble).

Furthermore the skin code example has been unnecessarily imported from Adobe Illustrator (there is no actual end-component example to accompany this chapter, so why do that?)- all it means is that the example code contains additional Illustrator-specific information which in most circumstances is not needed, and it is not even explained here despite this supposedly being an introduction to Flex4 and Spark components.

The example also seems incomplete as there is no specific discussion about declaring the states-node in the skin-part to correspond with the component code. The first part of the chapter ends with the words "You now know how to make a simple custom component. Next up are composite components". Trust me, if all you have read is this chapter you won't know how, and you probably shouldn't proceed.

This book gets STUNNING reviews on Amazon.com but look deeper and almost all reviewers have either only reviewed this book, or have largely only reviewed other Manning publications - apart from someone who only gives it a 2 star review and says that the Spark info in this book is sadly lacking - possibly the only honest review there!

Having said that, a few chapters in this book are good - if you want to learn RobotLegs then Joel Hook's chapter is a great read, but otherwise I would steer clear. I'm sure all the authors are knowledgable but had unrealistic pressure to get something completed in too-short a time. This book certainly doesn't appear to have been peer-reviewed properly and is far too verbose in places .... and shame on any publisher who reviews their own books rather than striving to produce something of better quality (if indeed that is what's happened here - but I'll leave you to check out the reviewers' profiles and decide for yourself).

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