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Hello! Flex 4 Peter Armstrong and Dima Berastau MEAP Release: May 2008 Softbound print: November 2009 (est.) | 300 pages ISBN: 1933988762 |
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Table of Contents & Resources
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1. Getting started - FREE 2. Hello Flex: Building SocialStalkr 3. Refactoring SocialStalkr: Architecting a Flex Application with Components, Events and Cairngorm - AVAILABLE 4. Putting the Rich in Rich Internet Application: Adding Effects, View States, Transitions and Navigator Containers - AVAILABLE 5. Forms, Formatting, and Validation - AVAILABLE 6. Creating and Using Custom Components - AVAILABLE 7. CSS Styling and Flash Skinning 8. What's New in Flex 4: FXG, Gumbonents and More |
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DESCRIPTION
With Flex 4 you can easily add color and life to your web applications by introducing dynamic user features, slick transitions, and eye-catching animations. Flex also provides powerful data handling capabilities so you can build industrial-strength applications. And it's open source, so you can get started without forking over a lot of your hard-earned cash.
We think it should be just as much fun to learn Flex as it is to use Flex. Hello! Flex 4 shows you everything you need to know to get started with Flex 4 without bogging you down in technical detail or academic edge cases. In this entertaining, hands-on book, you'll quickly move from Hello World into the techniques you'll need to use Flex effectively. Along the way, you'll build a Flex application called 'SocialStalkr': an interesting mashup of Yahoo Maps and Twitter that lets you 'stalk' your friends who use specially formatted Twitter tweets on a Yahoo map.
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Create engaging animations and transitions
- Handle and manage user input
- Access and display data
- Communicate effectively with the server
- Build a complete Flex 4 application
Whether you're a weekend developer or you have great plans for Flex, Hello! Flex 4 is a great place to start.
About the Authors
Peter Armstrong is the co-founder and CEO of Ruboss Technology Corporation, a Vancouver, BC area company focusing on Adobe Flex and Ruby on Rails development and consulting. He is the co-creator of the Ruboss Framework, the RESTful way to develop Flex and AIR applications that easily integrate with Ruby on Rails. Peter is also the author of the Manning book Flexible Rails: Flex 4 on Rails 2. He was a key part of the team that won the 2006 Adobe MAX Award for RIA/Web Development, the organizer of the Vancouver Ruby/Rails Meetup group, and is a frequent speaker on using Flex and Rails together.
Dima Berastau is the co-founder and CTO of Ruboss Technology Corporation, and is the co-creator of the Ruboss Framework. Prior to Ruboss, Dima worked with the OLAP Group at Business Objects/SAP in Vancouver, BC and the Enterprise Software Group at RIM in Waterloo, Ontario developing enterprise-scale web applications. Dima holds a Master of Software Systems degree from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom.
About the Early Access Version
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