Upcoming Books for Flex and Actionscript

Posted At : December 11, 2006 2:15 PM | Posted By : Leif Wells
Related Categories: Flex, Actionscript 3.0, Flex Builder, Rich Internet Applications, Books

Last Updated: 01/07/2007

I've been concerned about getting some of the junior staffers at Roundbox up to speed with Flex 2 and Actionscript 3.0. I figured that it might require a book or two to be purchased for the office to get them all on the same page, so to speak.

While visiting a book store this week-end I noticed that there are very few books published that assist readers and developers in the "how to's" of creating applications using Flex 2 and Actionscript 3. I did pick up the Actionscript 3.0 Cookbook by Joey Lott, Darren Schall and Keith Peters. I did not see the Advanced Actionscript 3 with Design Patterns by Joey Lott and Danny Patterson, or Actionscript 3.0 Essential Training by Joey Lott, but I am very interested in those books as well.

Hang on. Three books by Joey Lott?!? No wonder his blog hasn't had any posts on it in a while. Let's face it, with Joey writing all these books, he deserves a long vacation.

Anyway, I just thought that I'd list a few books that are coming in the next few months so you'll be on the look-out for them:

Adobe Press

O'Reilly

Friends of Ed

Wiley

Sys-Con Publications

Are the Adobe folks going to update Developing Rich Clients with Macromedia Flex? Hope so.

Are there more books coming from Adobe Press, Lynda.com and other publishers? Sure, but I don't have insight into those publishing houses at this time. I'll try to keep this list up-to-date and add any reviews when they become available.

 

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Tom Cornilliac's Gravatar Let's not forget to mention "Flex 2: Training from the Source" (Tapper, Boles, Talbot, Elmore and Labriola) from Adobe Press. I scored a free copy at MAX this year and IMO it contains excellent practical instruction.
# Posted By Tom Cornilliac | 12/11/06 1:15 PM
Nick Kwiatkowski's Gravatar I got a copy of "Flex 2: Training from the Source" (Tapper, Boles, Talbot, Elmore and Labriola) two weeks ago, and I have to say that the quality of this book is top-notch. That, combined with the Lynda.com series is about as good of a learning tool as I've found yet.
# Posted By Nick Kwiatkowski | 12/11/06 4:08 PM
Matt Voerman's Gravatar G'day Leif, You mentioned the update to the developing Rich Clients with Flex - FYI a colleague (Simon Reid) and myself are currently in the process of writing a book for O'Reilly (tentatively) titled Flex 2.0 User Interface Design and Development for RIAs. Its scheduled for release June/July 2007
# Posted By Matt Voerman | 12/11/06 5:03 PM
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# Posted By ben | 12/11/06 7:16 PM
# Posted By Simon Barber | 12/12/06 2:12 AM
Patrick's Gravatar 'The rough cut of "Programming Flex 2" is VERY rough - only 58 pages of the advertised final version of 528. Much of the current version is so general as to seem more like an outline rather than a book. Lots of screen shots are missing with generic graphics as placeholders. Hopefully they'll update it with more information sometime soon.
# Posted By Patrick | 1/5/07 10:25 PM
Patrick's Gravatar The 2/1/07 rough cut of "Programming Flex" is 298 pages and now quite useful!
# Posted By Patrick | 2/8/07 9:35 PM
Ms Organic's Gravatar Hmmm - we are still to find a good training manual on flex - never been a big fan of Training from the Source

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# Posted By Ms Organic | 3/22/07 3:22 PM
Cardiff's Gravatar Thanks a lot, very useful

keep up good work!
# Posted By Cardiff | 7/28/07 3:24 PM
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