Re: [flexcoders] Design Pattern books for AS3 and Flex 2

2006-06-22 Thread milan kosir
I can recommend Head First Design Patterns (by Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, and Kathy Sierra) - the same thing, simple examples for java, but it can be used for actionscript with no problem. Book is using very interesting approach (lots of images for better remembrance ...) br,

Re: [flexcoders] Design Pattern books for AS3 and Flex 2

2006-06-21 Thread judah
fyi, i stopped by the bookstore and found design patterns for dummies. it seems to be language nuetral too up until the examples which are in java. i read through the first two chapters and it was very easy to understand http://www.amazon.com search "design patterns for dummies" by steve holzne

Re: [flexcoders] Design Pattern books for AS3 and Flex 2

2006-06-20 Thread judah
i wanted to go to that! thanks, i found the link to the book by danny and joey on amazon. i'm including it for future readers of this thread http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321426568/ref=sr_11_1/104-0583550-8675930?%5Fencoding=UTF8 i ordered the head first design patterns book in the mean

Re: [flexcoders] Design Pattern books for AS3 and Flex 2

2006-06-20 Thread Jeremy Lu
well, seems it's a bit too late to add my vote for "Head First Design Patterns". Personally I think this is a *MUST* read (over and over again and port those java code to AS3) for every serious engineer :-) Recently I've be thinking about implement Memento and Command Pattern in Flex 2 so the

Re: [flexcoders] Design Pattern books for AS3 and Flex 2

2006-06-20 Thread Alan Shaw
Danny Patterson and Joey Lott have an AS3 design patterns book coming out this summer from Adobe.  They presented parts of it at FlashBelt last week, and it's going to be a must buy.   -A   On 6/20/06, Phil Marston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: don't know about flex as 3 specifically, but worth che

Re: [flexcoders] Design Pattern books for AS3 and Flex 2

2006-06-20 Thread Michael Schmalle
Patterns are language neutral; yes But, this is a double edge sword. Maybe he meant, "A book about how to implement those neutral patterns in Flex that is not neutral"; That's like saying in all foreign languages a sentence has the pattern signature of blah blah... When some go from left to ri

Re: [flexcoders] Design Pattern books for AS3 and Flex 2

2006-06-20 Thread Phil Marston
don't know about flex as 3 specifically, but worth checking out O'Reilly's "Head First Design Patterns" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596007124/ref=sr_11_1/002-8231286-1107262?%5Fencoding=UTF8 HTH Phil judah wrote: > Are there any design pattern books coming out in the near future that

RE: [flexcoders] Design Pattern books for AS3 and Flex 2

2006-06-20 Thread Mark Lapasa
flexcoders] Design Pattern books for AS3 and Flex 2 Are there any design pattern books coming out in the near future that talk about design patterns with ActionScript 3 or Flex 2? Best Regards, Judah Frangipane -- "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more importa

[flexcoders] Design Pattern books for AS3 and Flex 2

2006-06-20 Thread judah
Are there any design pattern books coming out in the near future that talk about design patterns with ActionScript 3 or Flex 2? Best Regards, Judah Frangipane -- "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." "You can have anything you want - i