Getting Started with Flex 3 - (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly)) by Jack D Herrington & Emily Kim (Paperback)

About the Book

This concise handbook has been developed in partnership with Adobe, for distribution to the global Flex development marketplace. Its primary purpose is as part of a Flex development starter kit.

Book Synopsis

Discover how easy RIA development can be with this one-of-a-kind handbook from the Adobe Developer Library. Several clear, step-by-step mini-tutorials teach you about web services, event handling, designing user interfaces with reusable components, and more. After finishing this guide, you'll be able to build Flash applications ranging from widgets to full-featured RIAs using the Flex SDK and Flex Builder 3.0. With Getting Started with Flex 3, you will:

• Walk through sample RIA projects and see examples of amazing applications people have built with Flex
• Work with ActionScript 3.0 and the MXML markup language
• Build user interfaces using the controls and tools available with the framework
• Get a tour of controls available commercially and through open source
• Learn how Flex integrates with ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP, and J2EE in the server
• Build Flex-based widgets that let you display real-time data
• Use advanced controls to build 3D graphs, data dashboards, mapping applications, and more

You'll find complete code for video players, a slideshow, a chat client, and an RSS reader, just to name a few. You also get plenty of tips, tricks, and techniques to leverage your existing programming skills, whether you come from an open source or Visual Studio-intensive background.

About the Author

Jack D. Herrington is an engineer, author and presenter who lives and works in the Bay Area. His mission is to expose his fellow engineers to new technologies. That covers a broad spectrum, from demonstrating programs that write other programs in the book Code Generation in Action. Providing techniques for building customer centered web sites in PHP Hacks. All the way writing a how-to on audio blogging called Podcasting Hacks. All of which make great holiday gifts and are available online here, and at your local bookstore. Jack also writes articles for O'Reilly, DevX and IBM Developerworks.

Emily Kim, President, Trilemtry, Inc., has co-authored and contributed to a number of books including a college-level workbook about the Internet and various ColdFusion books. Besides being a writer, Emily is also a programmer, designer and a Abobe Master Instructor.

The Adobe Development Team consists of engineers and product evangelists, combining their deep technical knowledge of the technology with communication skills honed from demoing the product hundreds of times, to many thousands of users (and doing countless hours of Q&A with these users).