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AdvancED Flex Application Development

Building Rich Media X

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  • © 2008

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  1. R. Blank
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  2. Hasan Otuome
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  3. Omar Gonzalez
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  4. Chris Charlton
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  • Flex 2 is one of the hottest web technologies in use today

  • This is one of the first high level Flex books available, and has some unique features

  • It is written by a very well-known author team, and is based on a very popular real world application, so the book will be a dream to market

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Planning the RMX

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction to Flex 2 Applications

      • R. Blank
      Pages 3-16

    3. Defining the Application: introducing the RMX

      • R. Blank
      Pages 19-40

    4. Planning the Application: Building the RMX

      • R. Blank
      Pages 43-92

  3. Building the RMX Core Functions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Preparing to Get to Work

      • Omar Gonzalez
      Pages 95-111

    3. Styling Flex

      • Omar Gonzalez
      Pages 113-143

    4. Collecting and Working with Aggregated Content

      • Chris Charlton
      Pages 145-163

    5. Secondary Navigation

      • Hasan Otuome
      Pages 165-194

    6. Forms and Validation

      • Omar Gonzalez
      Pages 197-231

    7. User Communications

      • Hasan Otuome
      Pages 233-259

    8. Working with Video

      • Omar Gonzalez
      Pages 261-296

    9. Advertising and Flex

      • R. Blank
      Pages 299-315

  4. Building out New Features

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 317-317
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    2. Building the Blog

      • Hasan Otuome
      Pages 319-334

    3. Building the Jobs Board

      • Omar Gonzalez
      Pages 337-369

    4. Building the Event Calendar

      • Hasan Otuome
      Pages 371-389

    5. Ideas for the Future: Extending the RMX

      • R. Blank
      Pages 391-415

  5. Special Topics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 417-417
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About this book

Many Flex books cover the basics—this book does something different, and goes far further. The authors, leading Flash platform developers at Almer/Blank, working with Adobe User Group communities, are the creators of the Rich Media Exchange (RMX), a social media network for Adobe developers. In covering just how the RMX was built, this book contains all the knowledge you need to build similar large-scale rich Internet applications with Adobe Flex.

From the inception of the idea through to deployment, the authors show the techniques needed to plan and build advanced applications. You'll learn how to use forms, styles, validators, video, sound analysis, and framework caching, ensuring you make the most of the features introduced in Flex 3.

Powerful applications require solid back ends. This book shows how to hook up a Flex application to PHP back-end systems such as Drupal and OpenAds. You'll learn how various parts of the RMX were built, including the blogs, event calendar, jobs board, and advertising system—elements that come together to really showcase the power of Flex.

The RMX is built by Adobe developers for Adobe developers—a rewarding community relationship that guarantees results. The same spirit is carried into this book, with the authors wanting and helping to take you to the next level of Flash application development.

About the authors

Chris Charlton is a software architect at Almer/Blank and an Adobe Flex champion. He is a CSS and ActionScript expert who successfully cannonballed into web development in the late 1990s and has been programming since childhood. Always caught up with the latest in Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and XML, Chris authored premium articles for the largest Dreamweaver/Flash community, DMXzone.com, and produced WebDevDesign, a popular web design and development podcast featured on iTunes. Somehow, Chris finds time to run an authorized Adobe user group, LA AIR, focused around open source and Adobe technologies. As a community leader, Chris remains a resident faculty member of the Rich Media Institute and lends himself to speak at large industry events, like JobStock, NAB, and FITC Hollywood. Brain cycles from Chris are always web standards, the Flash platform, and accessibility.

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