+1 I'd be interested to see (and contribute) to this project.
JP On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Joseph Balderson <n...@joeflash.ca> wrote: > As I mentioned in the us...@flex.apache.org list, that's a great idea, > I've > actually been thinking of doing one in the new year. I still have some > contacts > at Wrox/Wiley from when we did the Professional Adobe Flex 3 "phone book", > and > at one point O'Reilly was bugging me to do a Flex 4 book back in 2009 (but > I > turned them down saying I'll wait for Flex 5, and you can guess how that > turned > out... LOL) > > So yeah, I think it may be time for an "Apache Flex Cookbook", so I'll see > if I > can bend O'Reilly's ear to the idea and set that up. If O'Reilly doesn't > go for > it, I am sure I can get Wrox to agree to a "Professional Apache Flex" book. > > What's the protocol here from Apache's end? I've never written a book on an > apache product before, only Adobe products. (FYI, I've lead the team which > wrote > Professional Adobe Flex 3 -- and wrote 1/6 of 1400 pages; tech edited a > few AS3 > O'Reilly & Peachpit books; contributed to few Friends of Ed books back in > the day.) > > Does anyone on the Apache Flex team mind if I were to write the O'Reilly > "Apache > Flex Cookbook," (assuming O'Reilly accepts the proposal)? I would of course > welcome feedback from the dev team, and extensive "beta testing" will be > done > prior to publication to ensure ZERO errors prior to -- but I'm getting > ahead of > myself. Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > Joseph Balderson, Flex & Flash Platform Developer :: http://joeflash.ca > Author, Professional Flex 3 :: http://tinyurl.com/proflex3book > > Sumudu Chinthaka wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have being heavily working on flex base mobile applications during this > > year and one of the thing that i notice is most books written about flex > > are 2 or 3 years old and there aren't any new books written about flex. > > > > so i would like to suggest our dev team to think about this and compile a > > book that covers latest apache flex release > > > > Best Regards > > > -- JP Bader Principal Zavteq, Inc. @lordB8r | j...@zavteq.com 608.692.2468
