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Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers (Solutions)
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Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers (Solutions) |
Author: Marco Casario
Published: 2007-11-26 |
List price: $54.99
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 I would reccomend
I would recommend this book. It may be a little bit of a battle for new comers sense it doesn't start easy and build up to intermediate. But it is an awesome book for anyone who is serious about learning Flex. I've read some of the reviews here about the code mistakes in the book and well, there are some and that's the only reason I didn't give it 5 stars. But given the magnitude of this book, the tremendous knowledge the author is sharing in it, I would still strongly recommend to anyone pondering over whether or not to buy this book to do so. If you are serious about learning Flex, I promise
you that the few typos are not going to keep you from learning it. Besides, it actually helped sharpen my debuging skills finding the errors.
Good Stuff!!!
I recently had the opportunity to go back and learn more about Adobe Flex. I will be using Flex to complete my senior project in December. I need to get up to speed rather quickly and this is one of the books I felt could help me going forward.
The book is divided into fourteen chapters. The first two deal with Flex essentials and components. The next four cover working with data. This includes working data models to remote data using RPC classes. Those chapters are followed by one on compiling/deploying Flex applications and controlling the look of your applications. The book concluded with chapters regarding security, advanced techniques, more flex libraries, user navigation, and migrating your application to Adobe AIR.
The layout of the book is typical of most Friends of Ed books. I would have liked to see more color to break up the sections, but being that it is full of examples I can see why this was not possible.
What I liked about the book
I think the way the chapters built on each and were ordered in a logical fashion. I thought the author really excelled at providing examples that were relevant to what he was explaining and what a developer might use in the real world. The chapter on programming the design was the best I have seen on this topic and provided useful snippets that I will use going forward. The chapters on navigation, advanced flex builder techniques (especially the coverage of charting), and the framework libraries
What I didn't like about the book
I didn't like the fact that some of the code examples contained errors, but they were easy to fix with a thorough look through the syntax. For some reason, I could get none of the code examples in the chapter regarding RPC's to work which was quite disappointing, but I am not sure that was any fault of the code in the book. I wish the book would have went in to more detail on Flex's interaction with other web development frameworks such as Ruby on Rails. I would like to see some discussion on deploying Flex solutions to shared and dedicated servers. I understand the need to work on the local computer, but I would like to see more books broach this topic. I would have liked some coverage of connecting to a database such as MySql, but maybe that is beyond the scope of this book
Conclusion
I really enjoyed this book and I think I am ready to take the next step in learning Abode Flex. This book provided a solid foundation for me to continue learning Adobe Flex and I am sure I will use it as a reference going forward. I think I am about ready for the intermediate level books.
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 Great Flex Solutions Book
Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers by Marco Casario is a must have book. Why? Many simple, objective code snippets from which one can build many useful Flex applications. The simplicity of code examples can be also easily extended in real projects. The book is devided into problem oriented parts: Flex Basics, Using Components, Working with Data, Validating and Formatting Data, Managing Complex Data, Working with Remote Data, Compiling and Deploying Flex Applications, Designing and Programming the Look and Feel of Flex Applications, Flex Security and more. Each chapter consists of number of problems which are completely solved.
Marco, as it can be read in About the Author note, has been passionate about Informatics since he was a child. I have realized that fact during reading the Flex Solutions book. I have used code examples from the book in my Flex projects and doing so let me save time on looking for solutions in other sources.
If you want to learn more about Flex, this book is for you. If you look for a book with quick-fire solutions to common problems and best practice techniques, this book is for you. If you want to improve your Flex skills for Rich Internet Application development, this book is for you. And if you do not know Flex but want to learn what can be done with it and how, just guess: this book is also for you. I like very much problem solving approach in learning and therefore I recommend this book.
Flex Solutions eval.
I like the book and would recommend it. Although there were some slight modifications to the way you build applications in Flex 2 and Flex 3. The book covers a broad range of projects.
 Starts Off Well - But Too Many Errors and No Corrections
I was really enjoying the first few chapters of this book. The code examples and explanations were done well. But after continuing through chapters 4 through 10, I came across several significant errors in the code examples.
I went to the book's website several times over the past 2 months to try to find an errata published and an updated code download. I even emailed the book's author several times with corrections and requesting that errata be published and a new code download made available.
Even though this book was published in November 2007, as of the end of March 2008, there still is no errata available or updated code download.
Now that Flex 3 is out, I would recommend purchasing one of the new Flex 3 books and skipping this one.
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