by David Salahi on December 19, 2010
I’ve been a fan of the O’Reilly Cookbooks in the past and have found valuable info in both their ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook and Flex 3 Cookbook. So, when O’Reilly released their Flex 4 Cookbook earlier this year I purchased a PDF copy as soon as it became available. However, I’ve been disappointed by this volume [...]
by David Salahi on September 15, 2010
As many Flex developers know, the Flex Cookbook and ActionScript Cookbook series can be very helpful when you’re trying to quickly solve a problem. These cookbooks specialize in the type of problem that you just know has been solved many times already by other developers—just not by you. Or maybe you have but you can’t [...]
by David Salahi on August 18, 2010
Hello! Flex 4 is written for experienced developers who are new to Flex, in general, or Flex 4 in particular. It’s organized as a series of 26 independent hands-on tutorials ("sessions"). Its scope is limited but could be a good introduction to Flex. As is the norm for code-oriented technical books these days the book’s [...]
by David Salahi on July 21, 2010
Adobe Flex 4 Training from the Source, Volume 1, an Adobe Press release, is an outstanding resource for getting up to speed on the Adobe Flex 4 SDK and the Flash Builder 4 IDE. Most technical books take a sort of catalog approach to presenting their material. That is, each chapter discusses a specific set [...]