1. Skinning and styling. 2. Making a Flex application without a framework (ie i've seen via view stacks, states, etc).
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:53 AM, <modjkl...@comcast.net> wrote: > This is great news. Would love to buy a copy of the book. My comments: > > 1. Favorite IDE=FlashBuilder > 2. Integration with BlazeDS. This was a lifesaver for me. If I recall > correctly, Sencha charges a lot of money to use BlazeDS if you're a single > developer, even though it's open source. So that's a big plus for Flex. > 3. Mobile development. Bring desktop Flex users into their first mobile > development. > 4. Example of setting up at least one general-purpose MVC framework. > 5. Advanced Spark datagrid features not covered in other books. The > datagrid is one of the most popular components. Even the more obscure > features would find an audience. > 6. I struggled for a long time to figure out how to pass variables between > custom components. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Joseph Balderson" <n...@joeflash.ca> > To: users@flex.apache.org > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 9:54:37 PM > Subject: Apache Flex Book Topic Wish List > > 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 > >
