I'm starting this thread so people can list their "wish list" items for the upcoming Apache Flex book. The other thread is specifically for discussion on the status of the possible O'Reilly book.
This book may not be an O'Reilly book (we'll see), but I'll definitely be writing an Apache Flex book of some sort for one of the tech major publishing houses this year. I'm modelling the book on the "Programming Adobe Flex" series of books by O'Reilly, so if you have the Flex 3 or 4 one, that's the template, with a few differences in topic coverage. As I mentioned in the other thread, there will be an emphasis on the Spark portion of the framework, and what's been updated since Adobe Flex 4.6, i.e. emphasis on the Apache side of Flex, rather than going over everything, considering the wealth of information already published on Flex 3 and 4. Although there will be a rudimentary overall coverage of things, so this won't be an "upgrade" book. There will be a few advanced nuggets tucked in here and there to keep it interesting, but for the most part it will be a beginner-to-intermediate book. There will be some coverage of IDEs (so pls tell me what your fav IDEs are) and plugin/desktop/mobile deployment strategies (i.e. Flash & AIR), but we won't be getting into exotics like HaXe or HFCD or Alchemy, or advanced topics like Ant and Maven integration. Space will probably rule out getting into 3rd party MVC frameworks, which might be a blessing in disguise considering how many have been orphaned in the last few years (I'll leave that topic to blog posts). As far as FlexJS goes, it's still very early days, and things could change from now till publication, so there probably won't be much about it other than to talk about it in the introduction. When FlexJS is in Alpha, it will probably warrant its own micro-book. For future reference, wish list ideas on "what I had to learn the hard way when learning Flex" is more in line with topics to be found in this book. Very specific applications such as printing from flex, would be better suited to a cookbook-style book, which this isn't. But list them anyways at the bottom of your wish list separately, and I'll see what I can do with the space available. Thanks all, -- _______________________________________________________________________ Joseph Balderson, Flex & Flash Platform Developer :: http://joeflash.ca Author, Professional Flex 3 :: http://tinyurl.com/proflex3book
