# Paperback: 550 pages
# Publisher: friends of ED (December 10, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1590598962
# ISBN-13: 978-1590598962
# Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
Product Description
Many Flex books counterbalance the basics—this aggregation does something different, and goes farther further. The authors, directive Flash papers developers at Almer/Blank, employed with Adobe User Group communities, are the creators of the Rich Media Exchange (RMX), a ethnic media meshwork for Adobe developers. In concealment meet how the RMX was built, this aggregation contains every the noesis you requirement to physique kindred large-scale Rich cyberspace Applications with Adobe Flex. From the inception of the intent finished to deployment, the authors exhibit the techniques necessary to organisation and physique modern applications. You’ll see how to ingest forms, styles, validators, video, good analysis, and support caching, ensuring you attain the most of the newborn features introduced in Flex 3. Powerful applications order solidified backwards ends. This aggregation shows how to offer up a Flex covering to PHP back-end systems much as Drupal and OpenAds. You’ll see how different parts of the RMX were built, including the blogs, circumstance calendar, jobs board, and business system—elements that become unitedly to rattling background the noesis of Flex. The RMX is shapely by Adobe Developers for Adobe Developers—a gratifying accord relation that guarantees results. The aforementioned fiber is carried into this book, with the authors wanting and serving to verify you to the incoming take of Flash Platform covering development.
In this aggregation you’ll see how to
* Effectively plan, wireframe, specify, develop, and promulgation large-scale Flex applications, and conceive what another utilization tools you’ll poverty to move using immediately
* Make your Flex applications countenance inferior same Flex with modern styling and skinning techniques
* Harness modern Flex modify features, including writing validators and antiquity your bespoken modify components
* Implement a burly business grouping for a Flex covering using OpenAds
* Build powerful, bespoken transmission players in Flex, including recording players with the autochthonous VideoDisplay collection and from scratch, and penalization players with modern good visualization
Summary of Contents
* PART 1 PLANNING THE RMX
o Chapter 1 Introduction to Flex 2 Applications
o Chapter 2 Defining the Application: Introducing the RMX
o Chapter 3 Planning the Application: Building the RMX
* PART 2 BUILDING THE RMX CORE FUNCTIONS
o Chapter 4 Preparing to Get to Work
o Chapter 5 Styling Flex
o Chapter 6 Collecting and Working with Aggregated Content
o Chapter 7 Secondary Navigation
o Chapter 8 Forms and Validation
o Chapter 9 User Communications
o Chapter 10 Working with Video
o Chapter 11 Advertising and Flex
* PART 3 BUILDING OUT NEW FEATURES
o Chapter 12 Building the Blog
o Chapter 13 Building the Jobs Board
o Chapter 14 Building the Event Calendar
o Chapter 15 Ideas for the Future: Extending the RMX
* PART 4 SPECIAL TOPICS
o Chapter 16 RSLs and Persistent Framework Caching
o Chapter 17 Search Engine Optimization for Flex
o Chapter 18 Building an Audio Visualizer in Flex
o Appendix The Evolving Flex Scene
About the Author
R Blank is CTO of Almer/Blank, an Adobe Solution Partner supported in Venice, Calif. that specializes in recording and covering utilization for the Flash Platform, for clients including E! Entertainment Television, Microsoft, Apple, and IKEA. For over 12 eld he has been an mutual designer, developer, consultant, teacher, and author, specializing in the planning, utilization and promulgation of flush interfaces; R has special in Flash since 1999.
R holds quaternary Flash Certifications, was digit of the prototypal 50 Macromedia Certified Flash Developers in the world, and is a tributary communicator for the Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Designer Certification Exam. R also supported and manages LAFlash.org, a accord of over 1,300 Flash business professionals, and bag to threesome Macromedia Users Groups for Flash. R also serves on the Information Technology Faculty at the University of Southern Calif. (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering.
Previously, R co-founded and served as Director of Product & Design at Wildform, where he co-created Flix, the prototypal recording encoder for Flash (now owned by On2). R has an MBA in Entrepreneurship from the UCLA playwright School of Management and a BA in History from river University.
AdvancED Flex Application Development: Building Rich Media X (Advanced)
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