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Not just another Flash book... The founder of one of the most popular Flash resources gets serious Flashers doing sophisticated application development
This book gets readers doing the most popular enterprise-level applications, the most sought-after new Flash development.
Jessica Speigel is a hub in the web design community. She has instant credibility.
Were-here.com is one of the most frequented Flash resources on the web. Over 5 million unique page views on were-here.com! Flash-based web application development is an intimidating prospect even for intermediate/advanced Flash developers because of the lack of information available on tools and techniques. This book fills that gap by deconstructing three enterprise-level applications in an accessible way, the first book of its kind. This book gets right down to business with instructing how to create three of the most sought-after Flash applications- 1. Full-featured Flash e-commerce site 2. Multi-player game (including speech bubble chat & theme game rooms), and 3. On-line community with forum, real-time private messaging and search capabilities. In addition, this book will have a generous share of tips, pitfalls, usability notes and "whys." This books accompanying source code allows the reader to tie the front end (Flash) they created to back-end programming (XML & Java).Her site is a leading resource for Flash designers and developers and her site is visited by 8 million/month, and has upwards of 30,000 community members. Her professional career includes first-hand experience building Flash-based web applications delivered across a variety of mediums, the web, kiosks, as well as PDAs.
This book gets readers doing the most popular enterprise-level applications, the most sought-after new Flash development.
Jessica Speigel is a hub in the web design community. She has instant credibility.
Were-here.com is one of the most frequented Flash resources on the web. Over 5 million unique page views on were-here.com! Flash-based web application development is an intimidating prospect even for intermediate/advanced Flash developers because of the lack of information available on tools and techniques. This book fills that gap by deconstructing three enterprise-level applications in an accessible way, the first book of its kind. This book gets right down to business with instructing how to create three of the most sought-after Flash applications- 1. Full-featured Flash e-commerce site 2. Multi-player game (including speech bubble chat & theme game rooms), and 3. On-line community with forum, real-time private messaging and search capabilities. In addition, this book will have a generous share of tips, pitfalls, usability notes and "whys." This books accompanying source code allows the reader to tie the front end (Flash) they created to back-end programming (XML & Java).Her site is a leading resource for Flash designers and developers and her site is visited by 8 million/month, and has upwards of 30,000 community members. Her professional career includes first-hand experience building Flash-based web applications delivered across a variety of mediums, the web, kiosks, as well as PDAs.
From the Publisher
An apologia to the Flash design and development community: 1. The following download --Missing Database Installer Files - Zip - 125kb - flashapp_patch_1.01.zip-- is available at the New Riders web site, on the Flash MX Application Design and Development book page, under "CD-ROM fixes". We dropped the ball when we did a final test of the final build of the CD; the installers from the previous build were inadvertently left on the tester's system at the same time that the installers themselves were accidentally left off the final CD build. As soon as we started hearing about the error we worked to get the files posted. 2. Trust us, there's no conspiracy to keep the errata out of your hands. New Riders wants you to know that we have been attempting to address errata issues by going through the author and having her address them. Jessica's a terrific pro and a wonderful leader within the Flash community, and will be working to get her own site live as soon as possible. She's experienced a few delays that none of us had anticipated and for that New Riders and Jessica offer our apologies. In the meantime, we've been compiling errata issues as they've come to us and are bringing some additional tech help onto the project to get any errata addressed, and as soon as possible. 3. Any errata aside, is the book a bit different in how it approaches its subject? No argument there. Jessica very much wanted a book that spoke to experienced designers--and not just developers--about application development within Flash. She conceived of the book through her interaction with the We're Here Flash forums: this is where she heard of a need for this type of book, where none existed. As a natural collaborator, she turned to Dylan Hasman for his able assistance in developing the Java servlets used to power the backend of the projects in the book, and to Jamie DeBella for her wonderful illustrations and animations. Todd Marks, of digitalorgansism, and Matt Wobensmith, of Macromedia, did technical reviews of the book in progress. If you have any questions about the Java Servlets that you'd like passed on to Dylan, or any questions or comments about anything else that you'd like me to pass on to the team, by all means let me know. Thanks for taking a look at the book, and thanks for giving us a chance to make it work for you. Steve Weiss, executive editor, New Riders, steve.weiss@newriders.com.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
If I could give it zero stars I would,
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Ce commentaire est de: Flash MX Application Design and Development (Paperback)
I can only believe that those who gave this book more than 2 stars either know the author or work for the publishing company. How could one possibly give a book that contains no less than 5 errors on the first page of coding a passing grade?In my mind this book epitomizes the whole tech boom - "quick, let's get it out there while the technology is hot and then fix it later". Thank goodness it's out of print and no longer for sale here. It's so bad that I felt compelled to review it still for those who may find it on another site. Jessica Spiegel is undoubtedly a great programmer but an awful teacher, and New Rider's - shame on you! Unless you want hours and hours of frustration avoid it like the plague!
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I returned it!,
By A Customer
Ce commentaire est de: Flash MX Application Design and Development (Paperback)
I was left scratching my head after the first chapter. The screenshots do not even match up with the text on the same page! The author, reviewers (if there were any), publishers and editors should be ashamed. I've never seen a book that was so unsuitable for publication. I hope the author will review her work in the future.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Badly Organized Book,
By Gary Leung (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: Flash MX Application Design and Development (Paperback)
This book is definitely NOT for beginner. I am not sure if it is for advanced user either. Step-by-step instructions are not exactly clear. Author never really explain why she do thing the way she does. So, I alway feel like I am blindly following her instructions. The worst part is that she put the instructions on one page and then put the samples of Actionscript on 3 pages later. So, I always have to flip the page back and forward. VERY VERY irritating! I am often too lazy to write a book review, but this book is just so bad that I have to write my first one. I STRONGLY suggest people NOT to buy this book. You probably will learn more by going to the Macromedia Flash developer site than spending [money] on this truly badly organized book.
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