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Summary: A 'Must-Have' Foundation
Review: It's a rare treat to have a collection of best practices on a new technology so early out of the gate. While the patterns themselves are not revolutionary, their application in this new context helps developers get off to a roaring start in building solid, scalable rich applications.If you've been on the fence about diving into this new arena of rich internet applications, the book covers all the basic building blocks in the initial chapters. From beginner to seasoned professional, this title hits it's mark.
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Summary: Just plain awesome
Review: My company decided to use Flex and so I bought this book to get started.. and I am glad I did.
This is a very good primer to get going and then the later chapters are the best I have found at actually showing you how to build TRUE enterprise level applications.
If you are new to Flex, and want to learn, and learn correctly, get this book.
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Summary: Best Macromedia Press Book ever written
Review: This is an excellent book on an amazing new technology. The book is very well structured and written and contains lots of examples that go far beyond the "hello world" type of examples you expect in books on new technologies. In fact the authors provide a patterns-based framework for your Flex applications.
Webster and McLeod raised the bar for every Macromedia Press title to be released in the future and just pushed Ben Forta from its thrown as the best Macromedia Press writer.
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Summary: An Excellent Book to add to your knowledge arsenal
Review: We decided we're going to give FLEX at shot at our company. I heard this book was good, but was somewhat skeptical that the first book of a subject would be any good, it generally takes time for best practices to come about with any technology.
However I was pleasantly surprised! This book is excellent on many fronts. One, it's not padded with 500 pages of useless background information on how the internet started. It gives just enough info at the start to set what your frame of mind (whether you are a cfm, php, jsp coder or a flash developer) should be from an application architecture point of view. It then goes right into a fully functional example, a blog reader.
The example is simple enough that not knowing flex doesn't leave you confused, but gives you context for what a flex application generally looks like. Though anyone who has done any kind of application server side coding will have no problems since MXML looks just like XML and Actionscript is similar to many OO languages. The next chapters then get into the basics and progress to the nitty gritty, and having that context really helps absorb the information as you have a frame of reference.
As I write this though (10/04/2004) FLEX 1.5 is about to come out and there are some differences - so the examples will generate warnings on FLEX 1.5, but those are easy to fix.
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