Professional Adobe Flex 3
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With Professional Adobe Flex 3, put your prior experience with Flash, ActionScript and XML-based languages to good use and learn how to use the Flex 3 platform to create Rich Internet Applications and AIR applications. Understand the potential of the Flex 3 platform through practical examples and hands-on advice on topics like desktop deployment, developing applications in MXML, creating custom flex components, charting, targeting AIR, and data interconnectivity…. More >>
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Nermin Hanjalic said :
February 16, 2010 at 7:57 am
I’ ll keep short on this one …
This book is possibly the wide-ranging and best out there on topic and really worth baying it.
It covers comprehensively all topics regarding Flex-Development u can possibly come across in everyday work. I don’t want to narrate every single area covered, but believe me, it’s all within.
The only thing I don’t like is that, it is kind a broad but not really deep(with exceptions). It show u a billion of single very nice tip’s scattered all over 1400pages but it doesn’t show u how to orchestrate that accumulated knowledge, following best-practices in some nice pro-application. Pity, but playing around and finding it for u’r self is anyway a way more fun
it just takes more Time 
Despite of that, five starts and definitively worth baying it
Rating: 5 / 5
K. Addaquay said :
February 16, 2010 at 10:36 am
This is a must have for all “serious” flex developers. topics in this book are very well written. you really cant go wrong. you might want to buy the ebook version like me (purchased on wiley website). u cant be walking around with a 1500 page book. ummm no!
Rating: 5 / 5
Thomas Schumacher said :
February 16, 2010 at 12:09 pm
I have a been a software developer for many years and I used many different technologies. At first I was very skeptical about an almost 1500 page computer book (anybody still remember the horrible 1500 page Java books from the late 90s ?)
But this book is written by many different authors, and so far everything I have read is well written and quite dense, sometimes I had to read it twice to get it – I like it !
I think it is a great well rounded book on Flex, and I highly recommend it. But as another reviewer pointed out, the think is heavy ! Both physically as in content.
Rating: 4 / 5
Todd Crone said :
February 16, 2010 at 2:57 pm
I’ve read several good Flex books (Flex Solutions, Training from the Source) and some not so good ones. This one is probably what I have wanted all along. After using Flex for 2 years I can still get valuable information out of the earlier chapters of the book. It really explains things in depth rather than just showing you how to make it work. If you are a beginner, this might not be your book although it does cover the more basic things. I think this is more for someone with at least a little experience that can appreciate understanding the how and why things work in Flex. It’s a huge book with over 1300 pages. Admittedly some pages are filled with screen shots of Flex Builder and code but it doesn’t feel like fluff to me.
Rating: 4 / 5
Kara said :
February 16, 2010 at 4:25 pm
When you chose to publish a 1300 pages/8 authors book this late in the Flex 3 lifecycle, it really tells something about your ambition.
My advice, don’t pass on this book, even if the vision of the Flex 4 beta might second guest you.
You will learn a lot, even if you’re an advanced flex developer, and I think I will continue to reopen this book until Flex 6 or 7 is on my computer.
For example, you can’t find a more comprehensive and deep documentation about Cairngorm than the 3 chapters in this book. And this book also covers some advanced topics I only found on some experts’ blogs like the correct use of dictionnaries.
And if the first part of the book is easy to pick, aiming at the beginner, I even found some really good insights in it.
I think I see this book as I saw the Action Script books by Colin Moock: a book one shouldn’t bother not to have.
Rating: 5 / 5