Thanks for your contributions Thiago. Let's table wish list items to a separate thread.
_______________________________________________________________________ Joseph Balderson, Flex & Flash Platform Developer :: http://joeflash.ca Author, Professional Flex 3 :: http://tinyurl.com/proflex3book a...@a00s.com wrote: > Hi > > Wish list, that I think it is important to those who want to start. > Just my opinion, things that took me long time to understand, that could > be very simple and quickly if I could found in one place. > > 1) How to download Flex. Looks stupid but once you download and install > you start to wondering. OK now what I do? It was my first reaction when > moved to apache. It was my first time downloading separately from Adobe > builder. > 2) How to setup Flex with adobe builder > 3) How to setup Flex with Intelij > 4) Probably the most important in my view: How to connect a flex > application with a database (maybe how to setup tomcat, blazeds) > 5) How to use external resourses with Flex like javascript. To show that > Flex its not a competitor of other languages but a language to build the > entire application, doesnt matter if will need to put together > javascript, applet... > 6) Show how to make 3d objects, not sure if the 3rd solution will allow > this one. > 7) How to print. Any business application will need that at some point, > and many times we need a clear text to print, not a postscript image, > maybe how to convert in PDF. > 8) How to check why your application is crashing the browser and how to > debug. > > thanks for starting this book > > Thiago Maia > > > On 1/22/2014 7:59 PM, Joseph Balderson wrote: >> Thanks Justin. >> >> One rule of thumb for time involved is 1-2 hours per page for authors >> -- that's >> me -- and 5-10 minutes per page for tech editing -- that's you Justin. >> Which is >> why, if a book goes past 400 pages, you need more than one author, >> unless you're >> David Gassner who can crack off a 1000-page Flex Bible book all by >> himself (god >> only knows how the hell he does it). Given the scope of the book, I'm >> probably >> looking at 6 months to write, with tech editing as it's written, so >> there's >> time. Professional Adobe Flex 3 only had two tech editors, and that was a >> 1400-page book (in retrospect we probably should have had three, but >> whaddyagonnado?) If you find you need help with the tech editing >> Justin, we'll >> cross that bridge when we get to it, but for now consider that post to >> be filled >> by you. >> >> There are three possible classic "animal" books I could do with >> O'Reilly for >> Apache Flex -- one is the "Programming Foo" series, the other is the "Foo >> Cookbook" series, and the third are "Developing Fum Applications for Foo" >> micro-books. The last book on Flex in the "Programming" series was >> "Programming >> Flex 3" by Chafic Kazoun & Joey Lott, so we're due for an update. >> There is a >> "Flex 4 Cookbook" and some Flex 4.5 micro-books by Rich Tretola back >> in 2011, >> but nothing recent. >> >> I think we'll go with a "Programming Apache Flex" book this time, with an >> emphasis on the Spark portion of the framework, and what's been >> updated since >> Adobe Flex 4.6, rather than going over everything, considering the >> wealth of >> information already published on Flex 3 and 4. And also because I >> don't want to >> embark on another monster book project; we'll keep it at around 400 >> pages, which >> would be easier to sell to O'Reilly. >> >> Doing an "Apache Flex Cookbook" would be a nice second book, but as a >> collaborative effort, because it would be a bit of a monster to do, >> considering >> that the "Flex 4 Cookbook" weighed in at 740 pages. If O'Reilly gets a >> good ROI >> (i.e. it breaks even ;) on this first book, they might consider doing the >> cookbook. But we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. >> >> What I will need people's input on, when the book proposal is >> approved, are >> general ideas, or rather a wish list of "what you'd like to see in the >> book", >> keeping in mind what kind of book this will be. >> >> >> I'll keep everyone updated as I hear from them. >> >> _______________________________________________________________________ >> >> Joseph Balderson, Flex & Flash Platform Developer :: http://joeflash.ca >> Author, Professional Flex 3 :: http://tinyurl.com/proflex3book >> >> Justin Mclean wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>>> You'll do fine, Justin. As long as you're willing to put in the time >>>> to read and >>>> double-read the entire book (usually as it's written chapter by >>>> chapter) >>> OK I'm in - but that shouldn't stop other people from wanting to help >>> out as well. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Justin > >
