Hi Steven, Any hints at a time-line for the 2nd edition?
;-) Phil At 03:16 27/02/2006 -0800, you wrote: >All, > >Definitely not a touchy subject - it's a fair question ! > >The book will be rewritten completely for Flex 2.0, and we'll be using >the opportunity to "refactor" how we've approached the subject. >However, I'd echo a number of comments that the aim of the book is to >lift the covers on how one might approach the architecture and >best-practices around Flex application development. Furthermore, for >each feature of the Flex product, the aim of the book was to impart >where and how you might apply there features, rather than an attribute >by attribute, method by method coverage of the various components, >containers, etc. > >We share your frustration that the code no longer compiles; however I do >trust that the value you'll extract from the book is significantly more >than some source code samples. > >Best wishes, > >Steven > >-- >Steven Webster >Practice Director (Rich Internet Applications) >Adobe Consulting >Westpoint, 4 Redheughs Rigg, South Gyle, Edinburgh, EH12 9DQ, UK >p: +44 (0) 131 338 6108 >m: +44 (0) 7917 428 947 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes > > Sent: 27 February 2006 05:08 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Developing Rich Clients book > > > > Agreed. I considered myself a flex developer early on in the > > piece that "knew" flex, but i'm happy to put hand on heart > > and declare that I still have it on my bookshelf and at times > > refer to it for min-refresh-my-memory style queries. > > > > Semantics of the book hold, just syntax is a lot different. > > Plus it wouldn't hurt to know where flex has come from in > > order to guage where its going. > > > > If however you have to pay and not your work and the budgets > > a bit tight then i'd say "no" :) > > > > > > On 2/27/06, Matt Chotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think it depends on your goal for reading the book. If > > you want to > > > just copy sample code and run it then the book now serves less of a > > > purpose. But I think the approaches that are talked about > > in the book > > > still hold in Flex 2 so for general background it's still > > worthwhile. > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Behalf Of pixelgeek > > > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:54 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [flexcoders] Developing Rich Clients book > > > > > > Maybe a potentially touchy subject considering the group > > mods but is > > > the "Developing Rich Clients with Macromedia Flex" book a > > worthwhile > > > purchase now? > > > > > > I ask primarily because I am not able to get the sample app from > > > Chapter 2 to run (or compile) and if the rest of the book > > has similar > > > issues due to the changes to Flex and MXML (note: I don't > > see this as > > > an issue with the authors or the book just a fact of life) I am not > > > sure the point behind continuing to work through it. > > > > > > So are the rest of the samples in the book salvagable or has the > > > language changed that much that I will run into similar > > issues through > > > the rest of the book? > > > > > > TIA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Flexcoders Mailing List > > > FAQ: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > > > Search Archives: > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > > > Yahoo! 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