Na tej stronie zamieszczamy recenzje napisane przez członków grupy. Ponieważ są one tworzone dla wydawców spoza Polski, przygotowano je w języku angielskim.

Essential ActionScript 3.0

Autor: Colin Moock
Wydawca: www.oreilly.com
Recenzent: Marcin Klimek

Colin Moock’s book entitled “Essential ActionScript 3.0″ pretend to be one of the most important positions in ActionScript developer library. It contains a lot of informations from core concept of object oriented programing to details about garbage collection or topics connected with optimalization of ActionScript code. Many additional annotations provide unique ActionScript knowledge. The book is divided into three parts.

First part contains most basic and most important information about object oriented programming and syntax of Actionscript 3.0. This section is useful especially for beginners. You can find a lot of well described samples. Thanks to many information about internal mechanisms working in Flash, sections can by very useful for advanced programers.

Second Part of the book covers a lot of interestig information related to visual part of ActionScript application. It shows how to build GUI and let it play with user gestures. You can learn about tools to build rich and interactive interface in the best and the most flexible way.

Third part contain applied ActionScript topics. It should be very interesting for person who want to find out how to create content in Flash authoring environment and bring it to life with code written in ActionScript. This section covers basic Flex MXML concept also.

Summing up this book contains most important concepts of ActionScript language. Nowadays, when internet becoming more and more, interactive, useful and eye-candy this book will help you understand how to build amazing content using one of most powerful environment dedicated to internet solutions.

Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers

Autor: Marco Casario
Wydawca: www.friendsofed.com
Recenzent: Krzysztof Satoła

‘Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers’ by Marco Casario is a must have book. Why? Many simple, objective code snippets from which one can build many useful Flex applications. The simplicity of code examples can be also easily extended in real projects. The book is devided into problem oriented parts: Flex Basics, Using Components, Working with Data, Validating and Formatting Data, Managing Complex Data, Working with Remote Data, Compiling and Deploying Flex Applications, Designing and Programming the Look and Feel of Flex Applications, Flex Security and more. Each chapter consists of number of problems which are completely solved.

Marco, as it can be read in About the Author note, has been passionate about Informatics since he was a child. I have realized that fact during reading the Flex Solutions book. I have used code examples from the book in my Flex projects and doing so let me save time on looking for solutions in other sources.

If you want to learn more about Flex, this book is for you. If you look for a book with quick-fire solutions to common problems and best practice techniques, this book is for you. If you want to improve your Flex skills for Rich Internet Application development, this book is for you. And if you do not know Flex but want to learn what can be done with it and how, just guess: this book is also for you. I like very much problem solving approach in learning and therefore I recommend this book.

Essential ActionScript 3.0

Autor: Colin Moock
Wydawca: www.oreilly.com
Recenzent: Piotr Bęben

The “Essential ActionScript 3.0″ book is addressed to everybody who wants to known new possibilities of ActionScript 3. This book helps you migrate without problems from version 2 to 3 and extends your knowledge. Many small and simple examples illustrate and introduce theoretical problems in a simple way. It is written in a simple language without technical gibber. In my opinion every Flash developer should read this book minimum two times.

Programming Flex 2: The comprehensive guide to creating rich media applications with Adobe Flex

Autorzy: Chafic Kazoun, Joey Lott
Wydawca: www.oreilly.com
Recenzent: Krzysztof Satoła

‘Programming Flex 2: The comprehensive guide to creating rich media applications with Adobe Flex’ is a great book for more advanced Flex developers. This book covers many important topics like working with UI components, advanced component concepts, working with media and data, client and remote data communication just to name the few. The authors, Chafic Kazoun and Joey Lott, are very experienced long-time Flash developers. They are well known in the Flash community, and are among the elite of the Flash development world. Chafic and Joey has been using Flex for a long time and it can be noticed by reader during reading this book which is full of practical leads.

This book is intended for anyone looking to learn more about Flex 2. The authors recognize that the audience for this book represents a very diverse group of people with many different backgrounds. In my opinion this book is a great resource but not for the beginners. Lots of original ActionScript and MXML code examples help reader to look deeper inside Flex 2 internals. I definitely recommend this book!