Flex 3 Bible
Flex 3 Bible by David Gassner
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Number of Pages:
- 978
- ISBN:
- 0470287640
- Product Group:
- book
- Publisher:
- John Wiley & Sons
- Publication Date:
- Aug. 1, 2008
- BooksForGeeks.com ID:
- 3809
Flex your development muscles with this hefty guide Write programs using familiar workflows, deliver rich applications for Web or desktop, and integrate with a variety of application servers using ColdFusion, PHP, and others-all with the new Flex Builder 3 toolkit and the comprehensive tutorials in this packed reference.
Reviews for Flex 3 Bible
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one month later, no book yet
Rated out of 5 stars, January 12th, 2010
I purchased this book one month ago but I am still waiting to receive it. This is more of a review of the delivery system from the seller UKPaperbackshop. I will report back when the book arrives -
A Great Starting Text
Rated out of 5 stars, September 12th, 2009
I found this book to be a great introduction to Flex 3. Coming to Flex from Flash where I used to do my development work, this book quickly helped me grap how MXML works, it covers the debugging features of flex well and has enough to get you up and running. You will of course need other books once you get in to component development and there is no substitute for Colin Mooke's Essential Actionscript 3 but this is useful too and I now use it as a reference.
Yes, the notes are a little annoying but you can easily ignore them. It's thick and takes time to go through but th reward is a rounded overview of Flex and how to get the most from it. -
A struggle
Rated out of 5 stars, June 12th, 2009
I had to learn Flex very quickly for my job and my first idea was to buy an O'Reilly book like I usually do, but I saw this book somewhere much cheaper, and thought, "what the heck, why not try one of the 'Bible' series". I have worked a little with one book of these series (the one for Mac OS Leopard), and even though I thought it might be a bit too detailed, it thought me a lot.
Well, this book didn't.
There simply isn't any flow in the story. I totally understand the need to add remarks under the header "note", "caution", "tip" etc throughout the text, but they seems to have totally overdone it in this book, and all these extra's make the book messy and kill the reading flow of the book.
In the end I didn't finish the book, and a day after I read Learning Flex 3: Getting up to Speed with Rich Internet Applications (Adobe Developer Library) which seems totally brilliant compared to this one: concise, to-the-point, and readable.